Subpopulation structure of caribou ( Rangifer tarandus L.) in arctic and subarctic Canada

• Main Authors: Nagy, John A., Johnson, Deborah L., Larter, Nicholas C., Campbell, Mitch W., Derocher, Andrew E., Allicia Kelly, Dumond, Mathieu, Allaire, Danny, Croft, Bruno
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Figshare 2016
• Subjects: Environmental Science; Ecology; FOS Biological sciences; Arctic; Canada; Cape Bathurst; Maude; Northwest Territories; Nunavut; Union Island; Rangifer tarandus; Subarctic; Wager Bay
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3295091.v1; https://figshare.com/collections/Subpopulation_structure_of_caribou_i_Rangifer_tarandus_i_L_in_arctic_and_subarctic_Canada/3295091/1

Effective management and conservation of species, subspecies, or ecotypes require an understanding of how populations are structured in space. We used satellite-tracking locations and hierarchical and fuzzy clustering to quantify subpopulations within the behaviorally different barren-ground caribou...