Gauging climate change effects at local scales: Weather-based indices to monitor insect harassment in caribou

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1838-1851

  Witter, Leslie A ^a,c   Johnson, Chris J ^a   Croft, Bruno ^b   Gunn, Anne ^c   Poirier, Lisa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Black fly; Caribou; Climate change; Index; Mosquito; Multinomial logistic regression; Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada; Oestrid; Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus; Retrospective

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEER; FLY; HINDCASTING; MONITORING; MOSQUITO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; WEATHER; WIND VELOCITY;

ARCTIC; CANADA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; NUNAVUT;

CULICIDAE; HEXAPODA; OESTRIDAE; RANGIFER; RANGIFER TARANDUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS GROENLANDICUS; SIMULIIDAE; SIMULIUM NIGRICOXUM; STREPSIPTERA;

EID: 84866858656     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0569.1     Document Type: Article

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