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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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Miscellanea related to reindeer and reindeer husbandry
Dissertations, abstracts, books, proceedings, reports and other issues.
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AbstractThe chapter focuses on intensive reindeer husbandry or reindeer pastoralism, which was a tenure system that emerged in the early modern period. Reindeer pastoralism and grazing are deeply interconnected and we therefore illuminate the ecological settings for reindeer grazing.
Jesper Larsson +1 more
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Reindeer talk : Sámi reindeer herding and nature management [PDF]
The objects of study are the Wilderness Area Planning Projects in North Western Lapland (Finland). They are examined as cases of implementing nature management in practice adapting the global ideas of environmentalism and national objectives and ...
Heikkilä, Lydia
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Reindeer behavioural ecology and use of pastures in pastoral livelihoods [Elektronisk resurs]
Reindeer pastoralists have, for centuries, followed free-roaming animals throughout the Eurasian Arctic. The closing of national borders about a century ago forced the reindeer pastoralists to adapt to new conditions.
Skarin, Anna, +4 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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Kautokeino Declaration. On the Occasion of the 4th World Reindeer Herders’ Congress Kautokeino, Norway, March 30th - April 3rd 2009 [PDF]
On the Occasion of the 4th World Reindeer Herders’ Congress Kautokeino, Norway, March 30th - April 3rd 2009, this document is the Kautokeino Declaration and outlines the priorities, challenges and concerns for WRH over the next four ...
World Reindeer Herders´Association, -
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Male-Dominated Reindeer Herding in Greenland – A Short Story [PDF]
Reindeer herding and husbandry in Greenland has a short history. While the hunting tradition is much older and has always been part of the Greenlandic tradition (specifically, the hunting of indigenous Greenlandic caribou), reindeer husbandry was first ...
Ackrén, Maria
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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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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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