Do North American Migratory Barren-Ground Caribou Subpopulations Cycle?

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Bongelli, Eric, Dowsley, Martha, Velasco-Herrera, Victor M., Taylor, Mitchell
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Cape Bathurst; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.14430/arctic71029; https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/download/71029/54349; https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/download/71029/54352

Unlike all other members of the deer family, subpopulations of barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) are typically sine-cyclic. We used Bayesian Information Criteria (BIC) to rank competing population dynamics models for 11 North American barren-ground caribou subpopulations. Nine...