Can Landsat data detect variations in snow cover within habitats of arctic ungulates?

• Published in: Wildlife Biology
• Main Authors: Maher, Andrew I., Treitz, Paul M., Ferguson, Michael A.D.
• Other Authors: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Høgskolen i Hedmark
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2012
• Subjects: Arctic; Bathurst Island; Peary; Climate change; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2981/11-055; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2981/11-055; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.2981/11-055

With climate change, modelling has suggested that increased inaccessibility of forage through snow may endanger some populations of arctic ungulates; however, contemporaneous data on snow‐cover conditions, other ecological factors and ungulate responses are lacking at the landscape scale. Researcher...