Springtime in the Delta: the sociocultural role of muskrats and drivers of their distribution in a changing Arctic delta

• Main Author: Turner, Chanda Kalene
• Other Authors: Lantz, Trevor Charles
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Muskrat; subsistence harvesting; traditional knowledge; local knowledge; Inuvialuit; Gwich'in; Indigenous Peoples; landscape ecology; ecology; delta; heterogeneity; climate change; sociocultural; Mackenzie Delta; Climate change; Gwich’in; permafrost
• Online Access: https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/9314

Climate change is altering environmental conditions in Canada’s western arctic, including hydrology, permafrost, vegetation, and lake habitat conditions in the heterogeneous landscape of the Mackenzie Delta. The delta is an expansive alluvial plain dominated by thousands of lakes and interconnected...