Data from: Loss of connectivity among island-dwelling Peary caribou following sea ice decline ...

• Main Authors: Jenkins, Deborah A., Lecomte, Nicolas, Schaefer, James A., Olsen, Steffen M., Swingedouw, Didier, Côté, Steeve D., Pellissier, Loïc, Yannic, Glenn
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2016
• Subjects: Canadian Arctic Archipelago; isolation by distance; Rangifer tarandus; Arctic; Canada; Peary; Arctic Archipelago; Climate change; Global warming; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.m7m72; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.m7m72

Global warming threatens to reduce population connectivity for terrestrial wildlife through significant and rapid changes to sea ice. Using genetic fingerprinting, we contrasted extant connectivity in island-dwelling Peary caribou in northern Canada with continental-migratory caribou. We next examin...