The role of seasonal migration in the near-total loss of caribou on south-central Canadian Arctic Islands

• Published in: Rangifer
• Main Authors: Miller, Frank L., Barry, Samuel J., Calvert, Wendy A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2007
• Subjects: Canadian Arctic; caribou harvest; population decline; Rangifer; seasonal migrations; Arctic; Arctic Island; Boothia Isthmus; Boothia Peninsula; Canada; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Gunn; Nunavut; Prince of Wales Island; Somerset Island; Taloyoak; Arctic Archipelago; Canis lupus; inuit; Kitikmeot; ovibos moschatus; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/349; https://doi.org/10.7557/2.27.4.349

Extended: In 1980 the caribou (Rangifer tarandus) on Prince of Wales, Russell, and Somerset islands represented a healthy geographic population of an Arctic-island caribou ecotype on the southern tier of Canadian Arctic Islands. Those caribou exhibited complex patterns of seasonal range occupancy, i...