Recently added articles from Arctic:
Facing a future of change: wild migratory caribou and reindeer.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Migratory wild reindeer and caribou numbers have dropped by about one-third since populations peaked in the 1990s and early 2000s. Four of five major herds in Russia and one of two herds in Greenland are declining. Several large Canadian herds monitored sufficiently to measure abundance ...
Relating biomass and leaf area index to non-destructive measurements in order to monitor changes in Arctic vegetation.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... (Received 1 April 2008; accepted in revised form 10 November 2008) ABSTRACT. This paper reports an alternative method for seasonal and long-term monitoring of biomass and the leaf area index (LAI) at Arctic tundra sites. Information related to the historical and projected change ...
The use of dog sledges during the British search for the missing Franklin expedition in the North American Arctic Islands, 1848-59.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... (Received 4 September 2008; accepted in revised form 17 October 2008) ABSTRACT. While the bulk of the searching parties sent out from the British ships deployed on the search for the missing Franklin expedition in the North American Arctic Islands over the period 1848-59 ...
New radiocarbon-dated vertebrate fossils from Herschel Island: implications for the palaeoenvironments and glacial chronology of the Beaufort sea coastlands.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... (Received 14 April 2008; accepted in revised form 29 October 2008) ABSTRACT. Palaeontological research on Herschel Island, Yukon, has yielded a diverse collection of Quaternary marine and terrestrial vertebrate fossils. The terrestrial faunal remains, which have largely been ...
A century of climate change for Fairbanks, Alaska.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... (Received 16 June 2008; accepted in revised form 21 November 2008) ABSTRACT. Climatological observations are available for Fairbanks, Interior Alaska, for up to 100 years. This is a unique data set for Alaska, insofar as it is of relatively high quality and without major breaks ....