Increases in body weight and nutritional status of transplanted Alaskan caribou

• Published in: Rangifer
• Main Authors: Valkenburg, Patrick, Spraker, Ted H., Hinkes, Michael T., Van Daele, Lawrence H., Tobey, Robert W., Sellers, Richard A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2000
• Subjects: caribou; body weight; natality; Rangifer tarandus granti; Adak; Lambda; Rangifer; Rangifer tarandus; Alaska
• Online Access: https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/1638; https://doi.org/10.7557/2.20.5.1638

Body weight and natality rate in ungulates can be useful indices to nutririon, bur they may also be influenced by genetic and climatic factors. Because caribou {Rangifer tarandus granti) are distributed as discrete populations of metapopulations (i.e., herds) that are usually reproductively isolated...