Food ecology and hunting behaviour of denning arctic foxes at Aberdeen Lake, Northwest Territories

• Main Author: Speller, Stanley Wayne
• Other Authors: Maher, William Joseph
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Saskatchewan 1972
• Subjects: Arctic; Northwest Territories; Burrows; Aberdeen Lake; Alopex lagopus; Dicrostonyx groenlandicus; Keewatin; Lemmus trimucronatus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-03192009-105946

This study of breeding arctic foxes (Alopex lagopus) and their major prey, the brown lemming (Lemmus trimucronatus) and the Greenland­ collared lemming (Dicrostonyx groenlandicus), was conducted at Aberdeen Lake, District of Keewatin, N.W.T. in the summers of 1968, 1969 and 1970. Lemming trapping sh...