Long-term interactions between migratory caribou, wildfires and nunavik hunters inferred from tree rings

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Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 482-486

  Payette, Serge ^a,b,f   Boudreau, Stéphane ^a,c,f   Morneau, Claude ^d,f   Pitre, Nadia ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b NSERC Northern Research Chair   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATAL PIETERMARITZBURG   (South Africa)

^d MINISTÈRE DES RESSOURCES NATURELLES ET DE LA FAUNE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

^f CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; HARVESTING; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; TREE RING; WILDFIRE;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 11144258904     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-33.8.482     Document Type: Article

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45. This study has been financially supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the FCAR program (Québec), and the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs of Canada. S. Boudreau received scholarships from the FCAR program and the Association of the Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS). We are most grateful to Y. Poirier for laboratory assistance, M.-J. Laberge for field assistance, and two anonymous referees for thoughtful comments.
46. First submitted 29 July 2003. Revised manuscript recieved 22 Dec. 2003. Accepted for publication 7 Jan. 2004.