Arctic Tundra Caribou and Climatic Change: Questions of Temporal and Spatial Scales

• Main Author: Ferguson, Michael A. D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Association of Canada 1996
• Subjects: Arctic; Svalbard; Northwest Territories; Baffin Island; Greenland; Norway; Peary; Baffin; inuit; Queen Elizabeth Islands; Rangifer tarandus; Tundra
• Online Access: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/GC/article/view/3922

Climatic changes have affected populations of caribou and reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) at scales ranging from a single winter to tens of thousands of years, and from micro-habitats to entire continents. Individuals, populations and the species have adapted to these climatic changes, however, produci...