Impacts of climate change on the seasonal distribution of migratory caribou

• Published in: Global Change Biology
• Main Authors: Sharma, Sapna, Couturier, Serge, Côté, Steeve D.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Blackwell-synergy 2020
• Subjects: Caribou (Rangifer tarandus); Climate change; Occurrence models; Seasonal habitat selection; Caribou des bois > Facteurs climatiques; Caribou des bois > Distribution saisonnière; Habitat (Écologie) > Choix; Caribou des bois > Habitat; Arctic; Canada; Rivière aux Feuilles; Rivière George; Rangifer tarandus; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/66475; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01945.x

Arctic ecosystems are especially vulnerable to global climate change as temperature and precipitation regimes are altered. An ecologically and socially highly important northern terrestrial species that may be impacted by climate change is the caribou, Rangifer tarandus. We predicted the current and...