Snow as structural habitat for wolverines in a changing Arctic

• Main Author: Glass, Thomas Rutherford Winder
• Other Authors: Kielland, Knut, Breed, Greg, Williams, Cory, Robards, Martin
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Wolverine; Habitat; North Slope; Wolverine behavior; Doctor of Philosophy in Biological Sciences; Arctic; Burrows; Fairbanks; Gulo gulo; north slope; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/13010

Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2022 Arctic snowpack provides critical wintertime habitat for animals to facilitate thermoregulation and avoid predators. Wolverines (Gulo gulo) are iconic among such animals, relying on snow burrows for resting sites and reproductive dens. Most o...