Sex, age, condition and tooth wear of harvested caribou Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus in west Greenland, 1995–1998
Managing ungulate populations in a sustainable way requires monitoring plans to provide useful information about population status and trend. Our aim is to evaluate the use of hunters to collect information about the status of caribou Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus in Greenland. Caribou have been h...
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crwiley:10.2981/wlb.2001.031 2024-04-28T08:20:53+00:00 Sex, age, condition and tooth wear of harvested caribou Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus in west Greenland, 1995–1998 Loison, Anne Cuyler, L. Christine Linnell, John D.C. Landa, Arild Pinngortitaleriffik 2001 http://dx.doi.org/10.2981/wlb.2001.031 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.2981/wlb.2001.031 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2981/wlb.2001.031 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Wildlife Biology volume 7, issue 4, page 263-273 ISSN 1903-220X 1903-220X Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Nature and Landscape Conservation Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics journal-article 2001 crwiley https://doi.org/10.2981/wlb.2001.031 2024-04-05T07:39:00Z Managing ungulate populations in a sustainable way requires monitoring plans to provide useful information about population status and trend. Our aim is to evaluate the use of hunters to collect information about the status of caribou Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus in Greenland. Caribou have been harvested under a quota system since 1995 in four regions of west Greenland. In each year, hunters were asked to return information on the sex, approximate age and body condition of animals harvested, and lower jawbones were collected from animals shot in 1995. The harvest is strongly sex‐biased (90:10) towards males. Jawbone length did not vary among regions. Age‐specific tooth wear was, however, most pronounced in the northern region (Sisimiut‐Kangerlussuaq), probably due to the nature of the substrate in the area. The condition of animals, based on a rump‐fat index, appears to be good over all west Greenland, with some slight but consistent differences between regions. We conclude that information provided by hunters will be useful in monitoring the caribou populations, but validation of their information is required. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Kangerlussuaq Rangifer tarandus Sisimiut Wiley Online Library Wildlife Biology 7 4 263 273 |
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Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Nature and Landscape Conservation Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Loison, Anne Cuyler, L. Christine Linnell, John D.C. Landa, Arild Sex, age, condition and tooth wear of harvested caribou Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus in west Greenland, 1995–1998 |
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Managing ungulate populations in a sustainable way requires monitoring plans to provide useful information about population status and trend. Our aim is to evaluate the use of hunters to collect information about the status of caribou Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus in Greenland. Caribou have been harvested under a quota system since 1995 in four regions of west Greenland. In each year, hunters were asked to return information on the sex, approximate age and body condition of animals harvested, and lower jawbones were collected from animals shot in 1995. The harvest is strongly sex‐biased (90:10) towards males. Jawbone length did not vary among regions. Age‐specific tooth wear was, however, most pronounced in the northern region (Sisimiut‐Kangerlussuaq), probably due to the nature of the substrate in the area. The condition of animals, based on a rump‐fat index, appears to be good over all west Greenland, with some slight but consistent differences between regions. We conclude that information provided by hunters will be useful in monitoring the caribou populations, but validation of their information is required. |
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Sex, age, condition and tooth wear of harvested caribou Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus in west Greenland, 1995–1998 |
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Sex, age, condition and tooth wear of harvested caribou Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus in west Greenland, 1995–1998 |
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Sex, age, condition and tooth wear of harvested caribou Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus in west Greenland, 1995–1998 |
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Sex, age, condition and tooth wear of harvested caribou Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus in west Greenland, 1995–1998 |
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Sex, age, condition and tooth wear of harvested caribou Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus in west Greenland, 1995–1998 |
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sex, age, condition and tooth wear of harvested caribou rangifer tarandus groenlandicus in west greenland, 1995–1998 |
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