Collection and analysis of traditional ecological knowledge about a population of arctic tundra caribou

Arctic

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 17-28

  Ferguson, Michael A D ^a   Messier, François ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baffin Island; caribou; Inuit knowledge; methodology; Nunavut; Rangifer tarandus; wildlife population fluctuations and ecology

Indexed keywords

PHOCA HISPIDA; PHOCIDAE; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

CARIBOU; INUIT; POPULATION FLUCTUATION; RINGED SEAL;

CANADA, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, BAFFIN ISLAND;

EID: 0030609773     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic1087     Document Type: Article

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