What does it mean to put caribou knowledge into an ecosystem context?

• Published in: Rangifer
• Main Author: Harrington, Fred H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 1998
• Subjects: caribou; climate; succession; wildfire; Pleistocene; boreal forest; taiga; tundra; conservation; Rangifer tarandus; Arctic; Endeavour; Rangifer; Tundra
• Online Access: https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/1378; https://doi.org/10.7557/2.18.5.1378

Ecosystems are envisioned as integrated, complex systems with both living and non-living components, that are linked through processes of energy flow and nutrient cycling (Bowen, 1971; Ricklefs, 1979). The ecosystem approach seeks to describe the components of this system, the pathways through which...