| Description |
1 online resource (xxxvii, 586 pages, 31 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits. |
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text file |
| Series |
McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 50
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McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 50.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-575) and index. |
| Contents |
Setting and background -- Taxonomy, ecotypes, herds, and morphology -- Return of caribou to Ungava after the last ice age -- Abundance and distribution of sedentary caribou -- Past population fluctuations -- Causal factors in historical fluctuations -- Forage and range -- Body and antler growth -- Physical condition -- Recruitment, mortality, and population growth -- Limiting factors -- Use of space -- Environmental factors in distribution and movement -- Optimal foraging and predation risk in the winter and growing season -- Spacing theory of calving and migration -- Population regulation -- Appendix: summer energy budgets for lactating females. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Caribou -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Caribou. |
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Newfoundland and Labrador. |
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Caribou -- Québec (Province) -- Nord-du-Québec.
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Caribou populations -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Caribou populations. |
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Caribou populations -- Québec (Province) -- Nord-du-Québec.
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Caribou -- Migration -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Caribou -- Migration. |
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Caribou -- Migration -- Québec (Province) -- Nord-du-Québec.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Luttich, Stuart N.
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Camps, Lodewijk.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780773532335 (DLC) 2010497010 |
| ISBN |
9780773576780 (electronic book) |
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0773576789 (electronic book) |
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9780773532335 |
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0773532331 |
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0773540776 |
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9780773540774 |
| Standard No. |
9786612867224 |
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