Download or read book Assessment of Resource Use Overlap Between Muskoxen and Caribou in Northeast Alaska written by Mark Edward Biddlecomb and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this study is to determine if overlap in resource use exists between muskoxen and caribou in northeast Alaska."--Leaf 48.
Download or read book Comparative Patterns of Winter Habitat Use by Muskoxen and Caribou in Northern Alaska written by Mark Edward Biddlecomb and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Muskox Ovibos Moschatus Habitat Associations and Interactions with Caribou Rangifer Tarandus written by Laurence Carter and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Muskox (Ovibos moschatus) are a large-bodied arctic herbivore that occupy habitats used seasonally by migratory caribou (Rangifer tarandus). Muskox were reintroduced to the North Slope of Alaska in 1970 and mixed-sex groups have been reported in the Yukon North Slope and the Richardson Mountains since 1985. Their reintroduction has sparked concerns from local hunters and community members worried about the impact of muskox on caribou populations and vegetation. This thesis represents an ecological assessment of competition potential and habitat segregation among two arctic ungulates and community-based research that addresses local concerns and knowledge priorities. In the first part of the thesis, I use satellite collar data from muskox and caribou to analyze their spatial and habitat overlap through range overlap, encounter rates, and resource selection functions. Range overlap was at its highest in the spring and summer months, but less than 1% of collared caribou encountered a muskox during that period. Habitat overlap was minimized through differential selection of elevation, distance to water, and abundant tussock habitat. In the second part of the thesis, I use ground-based vegetationsampling to characterize fine-scale muskox-vegetation associations, determining whether there arepositive or negative associations between muskox use and vegetation presence and abundance. Positive associations between muskox use and vegetation attributes were deemed to reflect a pattern of fine-scale selection, and negative associations were deemed to be the reflection of muskox herbivory impacts. Positive associations were found between muskox use and lichen, willow, and graminoid abundance and presence, an indication that within land covers, the relationship between muskox use and vegetation is mostly driven by selection rather than by herbivory. Collectively, this research reveals that in the Yukon North Slope and Richardson Mountains, the reintroduced and expanding population of muskox i) has low encounter rates and differential habitat use with caribou and ii) has selection patterns that are quantifiable at a large and at a fine-scale"--
Download or read book Northeast National Petroleum Reserve Alaska NPR A written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Co management in a Landscape of Resistance written by Joseph John Spaeder and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over the last decade, cooperative management has emerged as the dominant strategy in Northern regions for resolving resource conflicts and building partnerships in conservation and management between local users and government agencies. This dissertation examines the evolution and performance of several co-management systems governing wildlife in Western and Northwestern Alaska. The aim of this dissertation is to provide a better understanding of the evolution and performance of these joint management institutions by situating them within an analysis of social origins of resource conflict, local repertoires of resistance and contested claims to wild lands and wildlife. This research draws on political ecology as a conceptual framework which focuses attention on the linkages between local resource use patterns and micro-politics, on the one hand, and the larger economic and political institutions and forces that significantly shape those patterns, on the other. The first study, set in the Kotzebue Sound region of Northwest Alaska, examines: 1) the nature and causes of social conflict between Inupiat Eskimo hunters and government managers in the region, and 2) the potential for a nascent co-management regime both to mitigate these conflicts and to provide for more effective and equitable management of the Western Arctic Caribou Herd. In the second case study, I analyze the emergence of new joint management institutions for managing caribou and brown bear developed by agency managers and Yupík Eskimo communities in Western Alaska. After examining the historical the historical origins of resource conflicts which preceded co-management, I discuss how the emergence of new institutional arrangements alters existing power relationships and property regimes in both formal and informal arenas. The final case examines the performance of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Goose Management Plan, established between government agencies and thirty-five Yupík Eskimo communities in Western Alaska. Analysis focuses on explicating the pattern of resistance and cooperation that emerges in response to the implementation of agency conservation programs in the region, with special attention to the responses of communities adjacent to prime waterfowl migration and nesting habitat"--Leaves ii-iii.
Download or read book Surveys of Caribou and Muskoxen in the Kuparuk Colville Region Alaska 2001 written by Brian Edwards Lawhead and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A National Ecological Framework for Canada written by Ecological Stratification Working Group (Canada) and published by Centre for Land and Biological Resources Research ; Hull, Quebec : State of the Environment Directorate. This book was released on 1996 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [An] expanded attribute database [that] includes attribute data for the ecoprovince level of generalization.
Download or read book Northwest National Petroleum Reserve Alaska written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Muskoxen and Their Hunters written by Peter C. Lent and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Muskoxen, shaggy denizens of the Far North, are creatures long enveloped in myth. In this first major work on the muskox, Peter C. Lent presents a comprehensive account of how its fortunes have been intertwined with our own since the glaciations of the Pleistocene era.
Download or read book Terrestrial Cetartiodactyla written by Luca Corlatti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides comprehensive overviews of each terrestrial cetartiodactyl species’ biology including palaeontology, physiology, genetics, reproduction and development, ecology, habitat and diet. Their economic significance and management, as well as future challenges for research and conservation are also addressed. Each chapter includes a distribution map, a photograph of the animal and key literature. This authoritative volume of the Handbook of the Mammals of Europe is a timely and detailed compilation of all European terrestrial cetartiodactyls and will appeal to academics and students in mammal research, as well as to professionals dealing with mammal management, including control, use and conservation.
Download or read book Cultivating Arctic Landscapes written by David George Anderson and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last two decades, there has been an increased awareness of the traditions and issues that link aboriginal people across the circumpolar North. One of the key aspects of the lives of circumpolar peoples, be they in Scandinavia, Alaska, Russia, or Canada, is their relationship to the wild animals that support them. Although divided for most of the 20th Century by various national trading blocks, and the Cold War, aboriginal people in each region share common stories about the various capitalist and socialist states that claimed control over their lands and animals. Now, aboriginal peoples throughout the region are reclaiming their rights. This volume is the first to give a well-rounded portrait of wildlife management, aboriginal rights, and politics in the circumpolar north. The book reveals unexpected continuities between socialist and capitalist ecological styles, as well as addressing the problems facing a new era of cultural exchanges between aboriginal peoples in each region.
Download or read book Arctic Research of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alaska s Tundra and Wildlife written by Robin Dublin and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers elements of alpine and lowland ecosystems, the role of wind, cold, snow and permafrost, animal and plant survival techniques, tundra food chains and food webs, the fragility and resistance of plants, animals and the land, and conservation issue investigations.
Download or read book Ecological Regions of North America written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents a first attempt at holistically classifying and mapping ecological regions across all three countries of the North American continent. A common analytical methodology is used to examine North American ecology at multiple scales, from large continental ecosystems to subdivisions of these that correlate more detailed physical and biological settings with human activities on two levels of successively smaller units. The volume begins with an overview of North America from an ecological perspective, concepts of ecological regionalization. This is followed by descriptions of the 15 broad ecological regions, including information on physical and biological setting and human activities. The final section presents case studies in applications of the ecological characterization methodology to environmental issues. The appendix includes a list of common and scientific names of selected species characteristic of the ecological regions.
Download or read book Wild Mammals of North America written by George A. Feldhamer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-11-19 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Download or read book Arctic Human Development Report written by Joan Nymand Larsen and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goals of the second volume of the AHDR – Arctic Human Development Report: Regional Processes and Global Linkages – are to provide an update to the first AHDR (2004) in terms of an assessment of the state of Arctic human development; to highlight the major trends and changes unfolding related to the various issues and thematic areas of human development in the Arctic over the past decade; and, based on this assessment, to identify policy relevant conclusions and key gaps in knowledge, new and emerging Arctic success stories. The production of AHDR-II on the tenth anniversary of the first AHDR makes it possible to move beyond the baseline assessment to make valuable comparisons and contrasts across a decade of persistent and rapid change in the North. It addresses critical issues and emerging challenges in Arctic living conditions, quality of life in the North, global change impacts and adaptation, and Indigenous livelihoods. The assessment contributes to our understanding of the interplay and consequences of physical and social change processes affecting Arctic residents’ quality of life, at both the regional and global scales. It shows that the Arctic is not a homogenous region. Impacts of globalization and environmental change differ within and between regions, between Indigenous and non-Indigenous northerners, between genders and along other axes.
Download or read book The Regional Impacts of Climate Change written by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Working Group II. and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
