Return of Caribou to Ungava
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A01=A. T. Bergerud
A01=Lodewijk Camps
A01=Stuart N. Luttich
Author_A. T. Bergerud
Author_Lodewijk Camps
Author_Stuart N. Luttich
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- ISBN 9780773532335
- Dimensions: 165 x 248mm
- Publication Date: 19 Dec 2007
- Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Hardback
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The George River caribou herd increased from 15,000 animals in 1958 to 700,000 in 1988 - the largest herd in the world at the time. The authors trace the fluctuations in this caribou population back to the 1700s, detail how the herd escaped extinction in the 1950s, and consider current environmental threats to its survival. 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 The authors conclude that the old maxim, "Nobody knows the way of the caribou," is no longer valid.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.
A.T. Bergerud is former chief biologist of Newfoundland. He has been a population ecologist involved in research on caribou populations in North America since 1955. Stuart N. Luttich, a provincial biologist in Labrador, monitored the caribou herd from 1974 to 1993. Lodewijk Camps studied the George River caribou herd from 1988 to 1992.
