Inuit knowledge of long-term changes in a population of arctic tundra caribou

Arctic

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 201-219

  Ferguson, Michael A D ^a   Williamson, Robert G ^b   Messier, François ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baffin Island; Canada; Caribou; Inuit; Metapopulations; Nunavut; Population dynamics; Rangifer tanrandus; Traditional ecological knowledge

Indexed keywords

INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ESTIMATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNGULATE;

BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 0031688674     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic1062     Document Type: Article

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