Demographic responses of a threatened, low-density ungulate to annual variation in meteorological and phenological conditions.

ABSTRACT: As global climate change progresses, wildlife management will benefit from knowledge of demographic responses to climatic variation, particularly for species already endangered by other stressors. In Canada, climate change is expected to increasingly impact populations of threatened woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) and much focus has been placed on how a warming climate has potentially facilitated the northward expansion of apparent competitors and novel predators. Climate change, however, may also exert more direct effects on caribou populations that are not mediated by predation. These effects include meteorological changes that influence resource availability and energy expenditure. Research on other ungulates suggests that climatic variation may have minimal impact on low-d

SUBMITTER: DeMars CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8500449 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature