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Reindeer grazing controls willows but has only minor effects on plant communities in Fennoscandian oroarctic mires [PDF]

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2019
Shrubification of arctic tundra is a well-recognized phenomenon, and it can be particularly rapid in moist habitats. Reindeer grazing can inhibit shrubification, but grazing impacts on mire vegetation have been overlooked.
Tiina H. M. Kolari, Timo Kumpula, Mariana Verdonen, Bruce C. Forbes, Teemu Tahvanainen   +4 more
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The Archaeology of Reindeer Domestication and Herding Practices in Northern Fennoscandia

Journal of Archaeological Research, 2022
Animal domestication is a profound change for human societies, economies, and worldviews. The shifting definitions of animal domestication reflect its varying and process-like nature.
Anna-Kaisa Salmi
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Humanized Transgenic Mice Are Resistant to Chronic Wasting Disease Prions From Norwegian Reindeer and Moose

Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is the transmissible spongiform encephalopathy or prion disease affecting cervids. In 2016, the first cases of CWD were reported in Europe in Norwegian wild reindeer and moose.
J. Wadsworth, Susan Joiner, J. Linehan, Kezia Jack, H. Al-Doujaily, Helena Costa, Thea Ingold, M. Taema, Fuquan Zhang, Malin K. Sandberg, S. Brandner, Linh P. Tran, T. Vikøren, Jørn Våge, K. Madslien, B. Ytrehus, S. Benestad, E. Asante, J. Collinge   +18 more
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The Shrinking Resource Base of Pastoralism: Saami Reindeer Husbandry in a Climate of Change

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021
The productive performance of large ungulates in extensive pastoral grazing systems is modulated simultaneously by the effects of climate change and human intervention independent of climate change. The latter includes the expansion of private, civil and
N. Tyler, I. Hanssen‐Bauer, E. Førland, C. Nellemann   +3 more
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Impacts of climate warming on reindeer herding require new land-use strategies

Ambio, 2021
Climate in the Arctic has warmed at a more rapid pace than the global average over the past few decades leading to weather, snow, and ice situations previously unencountered.
G. Rosqvist, Niila Inga, P. Eriksson
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Yes, they can: polar bears Ursus maritimus successfully hunt Svalbard reindeer Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus

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.
L. Stempniewicz, Izabela Kulaszewicz, J. Aars   +2 more
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Reindeer husbandry in peril?—How extractive industries exert multiple pressures on an Arctic pastoral ecosystem

People and Nature, 2021
Environmental changes and their consequences on biodiversity are known to have far-reaching effects on the resilience of animal populations and associated livelihoods around the world.
C. Fohringer, G. Rosqvist, Niila Inga, Navinder J. Singh   +3 more
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Impact of selection and domestication on hindlimb bones of modern reindeer populations: Archaeological implications for early reindeer management by Sámi in Fennoscandia

Historical Biology, 2021
For centuries, reindeer herding has been an integral part of the subsistence and culture among the Sámi of northern Fennoscandia. Despite the importance of this husbandry in their history, the timing and details of early reindeer domestication are still ...
Maxime Pelletier, A. Kotiaho, Sirpa Niinimäki, Anna-Kaisa Salmi   +3 more
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Occurrence of faecal endoparasites in reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in two grazing areas in northern Norway

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, 2021
Background Semi-domesticated reindeer represent an important livestock industry and livelihood for a proportion of the human population in northern Fennoscandia.
Lene Idland, Amalie Moen Juul, Ellen Karin Solevåg, K. Tysnes, L. Robertson, Kjersti Selstad Utaaker   +5 more
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Judging a reindeer by its teeth: A user‐friendly tooth wear and eruption pattern recording scheme to estimate age‐at‐death in reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 2021
Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) have shaped the cultures and provided livelihood to peoples of the Northern Hemisphere for thousands of years. They are still the socio‐economic cornerstone of many northern cultures.
M. van den Berg, M. Loonen, C. Çakırlar   +2 more
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