Potential net effects of climate change on High Arctic Peary caribou: Lessons from a spatially explicit simulation model

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 207, Issue 2-4, 2007, Pages 85-98

  Tews, Joerg ^a   Ferguson, Michael A D ^b   Fahrig, Lenore ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Government of Nunavut   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bathurst Island; Canadian High Arctic; Disturbance; Global change; Individual based model; Inuit; Population viability analysis; Rangifer; Stochastic simulation model

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ICE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BATHURST ISLAND; CANADIAN HIGH ARCTIC; GLOBAL CHANGE; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELS; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; RANGIFERS; STOCHASTIC SIMULATION MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEER; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GLOBAL CHANGE; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SIMULATION;

ARCTIC; BATHURST ISLAND [NUNAVUT]; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT;

RANGIFER; RANGIFER TARANDUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS PEARYI;

EID: 34548403036     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.04.011     Document Type: Article

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