Habitat use by white-winged and surf scoters in the Mackenzie Delta Region, Northwest Territories

• Main Author: Haszard, Shannon
• Other Authors: Clark, Robert G., Hobson, Keith A., Alisauskas, Ray T.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Saskatchewan 2004
• Subjects: land cover classification; forest fire; wetland productivity; habitat associations; amphipod; water chemistry; Mackenzie Delta; Northwest Territories; Melanitta fusca
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-11292004-152440

Apparent long-term declines of white-winged and surf scoter (Melanitta fusca and M. perspicillata) populations in the northern boreal forest have raised concern for these sea duck species. Reasons for population declines are not well understood but some evidence suggests that factors associated with...