| Description |
1 online resource (xxxvii, 586 pages, 31 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits |
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McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 50 |
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McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 50.
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| Contents |
Setting and background -- Taxonomy, ecotypes, herds, and morphology -- Return of caribou to Ungava after the last ice age -- Abundance and distribution of sedentary caribou -- Past population fluctuations -- Causal factors in historical fluctuations -- Forage and range -- Body and antler growth -- Physical condition -- Recruitment, mortality, and population growth -- Limiting factors -- Use of space -- Environmental factors in distribution and movement -- Optimal foraging and predation risk in the winter and growing season -- Spacing theory of calving and migration -- Population regulation -- Appendix: summer energy budgets for lactating females |
| Summary |
"In an examination of the life history and population biology of the herd, The Return of Caribou to Ungava offers a synthesis of the basic biological traits of the caribou, a new hypothesis about why they migrate, and a comparison to herd populations in North America, Scandinavia, and Russia. The authors conclude that the old maxim "Nobody knows the way of the caribou" is no longer valid. Based on a study in which the caribou were tracked by satellite across Ungava, they find that caribou are able to navigate, even in unfamiliar habitats, and to return to their calving ground, movement that is central to the caribou's cyclical migration. The Return of Caribou to Ungava also examines whether the herd can adapt to global warming and other changing environmental realities."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-575) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Caribou -- Newfoundland and Labrador
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Caribou -- Québec (Province) -- Nord-du-Québec
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Caribou populations -- Newfoundland and Labrador
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Caribou populations -- Québec (Province) -- Nord-du-Québec
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Caribou -- Migration -- Newfoundland and Labrador
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Caribou -- Migration -- Québec (Province) -- Nord-du-Québec
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Caribou -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador
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Caribou populations -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador
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Caribou -- Migration -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador
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NATURE -- Animals -- Mammals.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Mammals.
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NATURE -- Animals -- General.
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Caribou
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Caribou -- Migration
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Caribou populations
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Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador
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Newfoundland and Labrador
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Québec -- Nord-du-Québec
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Luttich, Stuart N
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Camps, Lodewijk
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| ISBN |
9780773576780 |
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0773576789 |
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1282867229 |
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9781282867222 |
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9786612867224 |
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6612867221 |
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