Estimating Bathurst Island Peary Caribou and Muskox Populations

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Miller, Frank L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1991
• Subjects: Aerial surveys; Animal behaviour; Animal food; Animal migration; Animal mortality; Animal population; Animal reproduction; Caribou; Muskoxen; Alexander Island; Nunavut; Bathurst Island; Cameron Island; Mare; Ile; Massey Island; Vanier; Arctic; Northwest Territories; Peary; Reine; Arctique*; caribou; muskox; ovibos moschatus; Queen Elizabeth Islands; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64573

Peary caribou (Rangifer tarandus pearyi) and muskox (Ovibos moschatus) numbers were estimated by systematic aerial survey on Bathurst Island and Bathurst's five western major satellite islands of Vanier, Cameron, Alexander, Massey and Marc, Northwest Territories, in 1985 and 1988. The surveys w...