Potential impacts of oil and gas development and climate change on migratory reindeer calving grounds across the Russian Arctic

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 416-429

  Kuemmerle, Tobias ^a,b   Baskin, Leonid ^c   Leitão, Pedro J ^a   Prishchepov, Alexander V ^d   Thonicke, Kirsten ^b   Radeloff, Volker C ^e  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES IAMO   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Calving grounds; Climate change; Land use change; Oil and gas exploitation; Parturition; Russia; Seasonal habitat; Species distribution modelling

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; AVOIDANCE REACTION; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DEER; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT TYPE; LAND USE CHANGE; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; WILD POPULATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 84903368280     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12167     Document Type: Article

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