Population Dynamics, Winter Ecology and Social Organization of Coats Island Caribou

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Gates, C.C., Adamczewski, J., Mulders, R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1986
• Subjects: Animal behaviour; Animal ecology; Animal food; Animal mortality; Animal population; Caribou; Inuit; Predation; Subsistence; Winter ecology; Starvation; Coats Island; Nunavut; Arctic; caribou; inuit
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65129

The indigenous caribou population of Coats Island, N.W.T., suffered major declines from winter mortality in the winters of 1974-75 (a 71% loss) and 1979-80. There was a minor die-off in the winter of 1983-84. Apparently in the major declines the entire calf cohorts (1974 and 1979) died. In the less...