Determining the relationships between forage use, climate and nutritional status of barren ground caribou, Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus, on Southampton Island, Nunavut, using stable isotopes analysis of d 13C and d 15N

• Main Author: McLeman, Craig
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2007
• Subjects: Biology; stable isotopes analysis; caribou; rangifer; Southampton Island; Nunavut; Canada; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2957

The caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) on Southampton Island, Nunavut, Canada for the years 1998-2000 and 2004, 2005, were investigated using stable isotope analysis (SIA) of carbon (d 13C) and nitrogen (d 15N). Spring signatures of rumen contents and muscle samples were correlated with stand...