Are the Jameson Land muskoxen, Northeast Greenland, in decline?

• Published in: Rangifer
• Main Authors: Gaidet, Nicolas, Daufresne, Tanguy
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières; L20 - Écologie animale; Boeuf musqué; Population animale; Diminution de la population; Dynamique des populations; http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_24875; http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_435; http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_13512; http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6111; http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3380; http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2185; Greenland; Jameson Land; Groenland; muskox; Rangifer
• Online Access: http://agritrop.cirad.fr/602622/; http://agritrop.cirad.fr/602622/1/Gaidet_Are%20the%20Jameson%20Land%20muskoxen,%20Northeast%20Greenland,%20in%20decline_Rangifer%202019.pdf; https://doi.org/10.7557/2.39.1.4424

The Jameson Land region contains the largest muskox population in Northeast Greenland. In the period 1980-1990, late winter population size averaged 3,645. A late winter 2000 survey estimated ca. 1,705 muskoxen. Although no further late winter surveys for muskox abundance have occurred since, there...