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High-resolution palynology reveals the land-use history of a Sami renvall in northern Sweden [PDF]
Acknowledgements: This research was funded by the Leverhulme Trust through the Footprints on the Edge of Thule project, and was written under the auspices of the ERC-funded project Arctic Domus.
Aronsson, Kjell-Åke +3 more
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Factors affecting velvet antler weights in free-ranging reindeer in Alaska
Free-ranging reindeer on the Seward Peninsula in western Alaska are rounded up from late May to early July and antlers are removed. We used data collected from 1987 to 1997 to determine how velvet antler weights of males and females varied with age, year,
Alexander K. Prichard +2 more
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Local consequences of applying international norms: differences in the application of forest certification in northern Sweden, northern Finland, and northwest Russia [PDF]
Forest certification, developed in the early 1990s, is a process in which independent assessors grant use of the certification label to producers who meet certain environmental and social criteria set for their forest products.
Johansson, J. +3 more
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Economical importance of Finnish reindeer industry
Within 15 years favourable weather conditions, antiparasite medication, supplementary feed, modern technology, calf slaughter and other factors all contributed to a vast increase in reindeer, and hence reindeer meat production, so much so that by the ...
Mauri Nieminen, Jorma Kemppainen
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Reindeer husbandry is a form of pastoralism where vast areas are used as forage ranges throughout the year. The productivity of the reindeer industry in Sweden is affected by a multitude of factors on different geographical and temporal scales.
Henrik Lundqvist +2 more
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Natural resource potential of northern regions: methodological characteristics of comprehensive assessment [PDF]
The economic assessment of renewable natural resources remains a relevant and as yet unresolved problem. Today, the economic assessment of natural resources is viewed as one of the priority tasks in the state strategy for environmental management.
Balashenko, V. V. +2 more
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This paper attempts to analyse diverse forms of reindeer pastoralism that exist in the European part of Russia from the viewpoint of landscape approach, that is as unique localized and historically developed interaction between people, reindeer and the ...
Kirill V. Istomin
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The University o f Alaska-Fairbanks reindeer program has existed under its current organizational framework since 1981. Program guidance across the three functions o f research, extension, and instruction continues to meet with support both internal ...
Epps, Alan C.
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We developed an assay to distinguish cellular binding from internalization. Compatible with microscopy and high‐throughput screening, the method identifies ligand‐mediated uptake. Applying top candidates to a protein‐based DNA carrier enhanced transfection efficiency, providing a rational strategy to improve non‐viral gene delivery systems.
David Scherer +5 more
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Transferrin variation and evolution of Alaskan reindeer and caribou, Rangifer tarandus L.
Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis was used to analyse transferrin variation in wild caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) and domestic reindeer (R.t. tarandus) from Alaska. Eighteen alleles were detected in caribou and ten alleles were detected in reindeer.
Knut H. Røed, Ken R. Whitten
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