EcosphereTo persist in seasonal environments, animals track, exploit, and store energy when food is plentiful. Seasonal changes in plant phenology that are predictable allow animals to track abundant food resources.
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Correction to: Yes, they can: polar bears Ursus maritimus successfully hunt Svalbard reindeer Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus. [PDF]
Polar Biol, 2022 Stempniewicz L, Kulaszewicz I, Aars J.
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Low spatial habitat overlap of herbivores in the High Arctic tundra [PDF]
Global Ecology and ConservationHerbivores play a crucial role in shaping tundra ecosystems through their effects on vegetation, nutrient cycling, and soil abiotic factors. Understanding their habitat use, co-occurrence, and overlap is therefore essential for informing ecosystem-based ...
Virve Ravolainen +14 more
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Functional anatomy of the omasum in high Arctic Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) and Norwegian reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus). [PDF]
Acta Vet Scand, 2000 The structure and fill of the omasum was investigated in summer and in winter in adult female reindeer living on the polar desert and tundra of the high Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and in sub-Arctic mountain habitats in northern Norway. The mean total mass of the omasum in non-lactating adult female Svalbard reindeer was 467 g (0.65 g per 100 g live
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Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus): a status report [PDF]
, 2019 Albon, Steven +24 more
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Detection of trace elements in Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) faeces in Longyearbyen, Adventdalen and Kapp Linné [PDF]
, 2018 The Arctic is considered a deposition and accumulation region for several possible toxic pollutions, including toxic non-essential elements, that can enter the Arctic environment via long-range transport from other anthropogenic sources in the world. The
Røed, Susanne Brix
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Svalbard reindeer population size and trends in four sub-areas of Edgeøya [PDF]
Polar Research, 2012 In summer 2006 Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) in south-western Edgeøya (Plurdalen, Grunnlinjesletta, Siegelfjellet and Burmeisterfjellet) showed a low population (181 animals) and recruitment rate, in terms of both calves (9.4%
Eigil Reimers
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ABOMASAL NEMATODES OF THE SVALBARD REINDEER (RANGIFER TARANDUS PLATYRHYNCHUS VROLIK) [PDF]
Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 1983 Six species of abomasal nematodes were recovered from Svalbard reindeer, Marshallagia marshalli and Ostertagia grühneri were more prevalent than Skrjabinagia lyrata, Teladorsagia circumcincta, Ostertagia occidentalis and Ostertagia trifurcata. Of 24 reindeer examined all harbored adult abomasal nematodes.
K, Bye, O, Halvorsen
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Yes, they can: polar bears Ursus maritimus successfully hunt Svalbard reindeer Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus [PDF]
Polar Biology, 2021 The polar bear Ursus maritimus is one of the species most endangered by the rapidly declining sea–ice cover in the Arctic, which they use as a platform to hunt fatty, high-energy seals. In recent decades, more polar bears have been forced to remain longer on land, so their access to seals is limited. The importance of terrestrial food to polar bears is
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Mammalia, 2023 Abstract Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) is an emblematic species with several recognized subspecies. Two reindeer subspecies are present in Norway: the wild and semi-domestic European tundra reindeer (R. tarandus tarandus) in continental Norway, and Svalbard reindeer (R. tarandus platyrhynchus) endemic to this archipelago.
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