The detection of vegetational change by multitemporal analysis of LANDSAT data: the effects of goose foraging

• Published in: Journal of Ecology
• Main Authors: Jano, Andrew P., Jefferies, Robert L., Rockwell, Robert F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1998
• Subjects: Arctic; Hudson; La Pérouse Bay
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2745.1998.00232.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1365-2745.1998.00232.x; https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1365-2745.1998.00232.x

1 The North American mid‐continent population of lesser snow geese now exceeds 3 million birds and the population is increasing in the order of 7% per annum. The foraging activities of the birds on Arctic breeding grounds are leading to loss of vegetation and habitat destruction, particularly in coa...