Muskox and caribou adaptation to grazing on the Angujaartorfiup Nunaa range in West Greenland

• Published in: Rangifer
• Main Authors: Staaland, Hans, Olesen, Carsten Riis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 1992
• Subjects: competition; muskoxen; caribou; alimentary tract development; grazing adaptation; Greenland; Angujaartorfiup Nunaa; Svalbard; muskox; Rangifer; svalbard reindeer
• Online Access: https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/1027; https://doi.org/10.7557/2.12.2.1027

In recent years (1970-90) the caribou population of the Angujaartorfiup Nunaa range has decreased from about 40 000 animals to 2000. Overgrazing presumably depleted the lichen resources on the range during the population peak. At the same time altogether 27 muskoxen introduced in 1962 and 1965 have...