Protocol Development Summary: Caribou –abundance, distribution, and demography
National Park Service Central Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network. 2004. Protocol Development Summary: Caribou –abundance, distribution, and demography. National Park Service Central Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network
Caribou occur in all three network parks and a are of interest to the network from several perspectives. They are one of 6 keystone large mammal species in interior Alaska which are of great importance to the ecosystem as a whole and to people from both consumptive and non-consumptive viewpoints; (3) Three of four herds have experienced significant recent declines; (4) Subsistence harvest on two herds has been curtailed due to conservation concerns, and providing for the opportunity for subsistence uses is a directive for NPS lands in Alaska; (5) One herd is the subject of intensive interagency management, including the control of predators; (6) One herd is the subject of an international captive rearing conservation program which has significant long-term implications. (7) Long-term research and monitoring on caribou on CAKN lands provide a background against which future patterns may be compared (Mech et al. 1998, Farnell and Gardner 2002).
- Type
- Protocol Development Summary
- Authors
- National Park Service Central Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network
- Date of Issue
- 2004
- Publisher
- National Park Service Central Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network
- Units
- WRST
- Keywords
- abundance, alaska, caribou, chisana, composition, mentasta, monitoring, population, rangifer tarandus, st. elias, survey, wrangell
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Mammals