Shifts in Fox Den Occupancy in the Greater Prudhoe Bay Area, Alaska

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Stickney, Alice A., Obritschkewitsch, Tim, Burgess, Robert M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2014
• Subjects: Arctic fox; red fox; den occupancy; interference competition; anthropogenic food sources; climate change; renard arctique; renard roux; occupation de la tanière; compétition par interférence; sources alimentaires anthropiques; changement climatique; Arctic; Renard; Arctic Fox; Arctique*; Climate change; Prudhoe Bay; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/67431

Although shifts in the distribution of red foxes into areas previously dominated by Arctic foxes have been documented over wide areas of the circumpolar North, no such documentation exists yet for the Alaskan Arctic. Fox research in the greater Prudhoe Bay area from the 1970s through the early 1990s...