Human impacts on George River Caribou: An Overview
Habitat loss exerts its influence by lowering the carrying capacity of the habitat. Loss of critical habitat, therefore, is of most concern. The fact that calving range is the one "constant" in the caribou's migratory movements, and that summer range appears to be overgrazed at presen...
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ftunitroemsoe:oai:ojs.henry.ub.uit.no:article/1266 2023-05-15T18:03:55+02:00 Human impacts on George River Caribou: An Overview Harrington, Fred H. 1996-01-01 application/pdf https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/1266 https://doi.org/10.7557/2.16.4.1266 eng eng Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/1266/1205 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/1266 doi:10.7557/2.16.4.1266 Copyright (c) 2015 Fred H. Harrington http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC-BY Rangifer; Vol 16 (1996): Special Issue No. 9; 277-278 1890-6729 impacts George River Caribou habitat info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 1996 ftunitroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/2.16.4.1266 2021-08-16T14:54:19Z Habitat loss exerts its influence by lowering the carrying capacity of the habitat. Loss of critical habitat, therefore, is of most concern. The fact that calving range is the one "constant" in the caribou's migratory movements, and that summer range appears to be overgrazed at present and may be limiting the population, indicates that protection of habitat in or about calving and summer range is a priority. It is important to monitor human influences of the population, so that changes in the relative magnitudes, at least, of these variables can be detected before their impacts become serious. Until a fuller understanding of the impacts of these various activities is acquired, it may be more appropriate to accept the alternative hypothesis that there is an impact, rather than the null hypothesis that there is none. Article in Journal/Newspaper Rangifer University of Tromsø: Septentrio Academic Publishing Fuller ENVELOPE(162.350,162.350,-77.867,-77.867) Rangifer 16 4 277 |
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Habitat loss exerts its influence by lowering the carrying capacity of the habitat. Loss of critical habitat, therefore, is of most concern. The fact that calving range is the one "constant" in the caribou's migratory movements, and that summer range appears to be overgrazed at present and may be limiting the population, indicates that protection of habitat in or about calving and summer range is a priority. It is important to monitor human influences of the population, so that changes in the relative magnitudes, at least, of these variables can be detected before their impacts become serious. Until a fuller understanding of the impacts of these various activities is acquired, it may be more appropriate to accept the alternative hypothesis that there is an impact, rather than the null hypothesis that there is none. |
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