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Eskimos, Reindeer, and Land [PDF]
, 1980 The following report is based on an interdisciplinary research study undertaken to investigate the social, economic, and cultural aspects of reindeer herding in northwestern Alaska.
Arobio, Edward L. +3 more
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Obesity, EarlyView.Abstract Background Glucagon‐like peptide 1 receptor agonists and combination medications (hereafter collectively referred to as GLP‐1s) are shifting the treatment landscape for obesity. However, real‐world challenges and limited clinician and public knowledge on nutritional and lifestyle interventions can limit GLP‐1 efficacy, equitable results, and ...
Dariush Mozaffarian +17 more
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Sámi reindeer governance in Norway as competing knowledge systems: a participatory study
Ecology and Society, 2017 Using a participatory research approach, we assess the knowledge systems and political ontology of reindeer husbandry. The study was conducted by a mixed team of scientists and Sámi reindeer herders who practiced reindeer husbandry in West Finnmark ...
Kathrine I. Johnsen +2 more
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Prion, 2019 The emergence of CWD in Europe in 2016 and the first natural infection in wild reindeer warranted disease management. This led to the testing of 2424 hunted or culled reindeer during 2016–2018, from the infected subpopulation in the Nordfjella mountain ...
M. E. Güere +9 more
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The effects of freezing and storage time on the quality of reindeer meat [PDF]
, 2017 Master's Project University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2017Restaurants, wholesalers and retailers of fresh meat require a year round consistent supply of uniform quality product to sustain demand and justify niche market costs such as advertisement and ...
Aguiar, George A.
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Oikos, EarlyView.There has been much recent interest in understanding how abiotic factors such as light, nutrients, and soil moisture affect the composition and biomass of lichen communities. Meanwhile, whether and how ground layer vegetation such as bryophytes and shrubs also influence lichen communities have received much less attention, particularly regarding how ...
Nicolas Fanin +5 more
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Sea ice, rain-on-snow and tundra reindeer nomadism in Arctic Russia
Biology Letters, 2016 Sea ice loss is accelerating in the Barents and Kara Seas (BKS). Assessing potential linkages between sea ice retreat/thinning and the region's ancient and unique social–ecological systems is a pressing task.
B. Forbes +11 more
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Characteristics of the reindeer electrocardiogram
Rangifer, 1982 <p>The electrocardiogram (ECG) provides reliable information about heart rate, initiation of heart beat and also, to some degree, indirect evidence on the functional state of the heart muscle. A wide range of such information is readily obtainable from conventional scalar leads, even if the records are limited to a single plane.
Timisjärvi, Jouni +2 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract While the return of wolves (Canis lupus) to many European countries is a conservation milestone, the negative impacts are unevenly distributed across society, placing high pressure on livestock grazing systems. For this perspective, scientists from diverse disciplines and geographical backgrounds reflect on the state of livestock–wolf ...
Emu‐Felicitas Ostermann‐Miyashita +11 more
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Reindeer turning maritime: Ice‐locked tundra triggers changes in dietary niche utilization
Ecosphere, 2019 . The rapid warming of the Arctic may not only alter species ’ abundances and distributions, but likely also the trophic interactions within and between ecosystems.
B. Hansen +6 more
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