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The return of caribou to Ungava /
"In an examination of the life history and population biology of the herd, The Return of Caribou to Ungava offers a synthesis of the basic biological traits of the caribou, a new hypothesis about why they migrate, and a comparison to herd populations in North America, Scandinavia, and Russia. T...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Ithaca :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2008.
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| Colección: | McGill-Queen's native and northern series ;
50. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In an examination of the life history and population biology of the herd, The Return of Caribou to Ungava offers a synthesis of the basic biological traits of the caribou, a new hypothesis about why they migrate, and a comparison to herd populations in North America, Scandinavia, and Russia. The authors conclude that the old maxim "Nobody knows the way of the caribou" is no longer valid. Based on a study in which the caribou were tracked by satellite across Ungava, they find that caribou are able to navigate, even in unfamiliar habitats, and to return to their calving ground, movement that is central to the caribou's cyclical migration. The Return of Caribou to Ungava also examines whether the herd can adapt to global warming and other changing environmental realities."--Jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxvii, 586 pages, 31 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-575) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773576780 0773576789 1282867229 9781282867222 9786612867224 6612867221 |