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Predation and caribou populations
Rangifer, 1991 Predation, especially wolf (Canis lupus) predation, limits many North American caribou (Rangifer tarandus) populations below the density that food resources could sustain. The impact of predation depends on the parameters for the functional and numerical
Dale R. Seip
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Genetic survey of caribou populations using microsatellite DNA
Rangifer, 1996 Microsatellite loci are highly variable regions of eukaryotic DNA that consist of tandemly repeated sequences of one to six nucleotides in length. The use of microsatellites and the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) are powerful tools for quantifying ...
James E.E. Kushny +2 more
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Rangifer, 1996 Winter habitat use was compared between two mountain caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) populations in British Columbia. Regional differences were apparent during November and December.
E. Terry, B. McLellan, G. Watts, J. Flaa
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Can woodland caribou and the forest industry coexist: The Ontario scene
Rangifer, 1991 Ontario is in the process of developing a strategy to improve the likelihood of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) and the forest industry coexisting in the province.
Gerald D. Racey +4 more
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Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2012 We studied the presence of linear enamel hypoplasias (LEHs; tooth defects associated with physiological stress) in caribou (Rangifer tarandus). A timeline of tooth enamel development was determined by radiographic examination of 48 mandibles from caribou
Jessica P. Wu +4 more
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Evidence of alphaherpesvirus infections in Alaskan caribou and reindeer
BMC Veterinary Research, 2012 Background The reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) industry in Alaska began with animals imported from Siberia (Russia) in the 1890's. Cervid herpes virus 2 (CvHV2) is endemic in reindeer in Scandinavia.
Evans Alina L +6 more
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Colonizing the High Arctic : Mitochondrial DNA reveals common origin of Eurasian archipelagic reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) [PDF]
, 2016 Funding: The study was supported by the ERC Advanced Grant “Arctic Domus” ERC AdG 295458 based at the University of Aberdeen (http://www.arcticdomus.org/). Funding was recieved by DGA. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis,
Anderson, David G. +6 more
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Rangifer, 1996 This paper explores mechanisms of coexistence for woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) and moose (Akes alces) preyed upon by gray wolves (Canis lupus) in northern Ontario.
H.G. Cumming, D.B. Beange, G. Lavoie
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Range selection by semi-domesticated reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) in relation to infrastructure and human activity in the boreal forest environment, northern Finland [PDF]
, 2011 During past decades, the amounts of infrastructure and human activity have increased in northern latitudes. Although the effects of human development on wild reindeer and caribou have been widely examined, its effects on semidomesticated reindeer and the
Anttonen, Marja +2 more
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Canopy, snow, and lichens on woodland caribou range in southeastern Manitoba
Rangifer, 1996 I examined the relationships among snow cover (api), lichen abundance, and canopy composition on the range of the Aikens Lake population of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in southeastern Manitoba.
James A. Schaefer
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