Recently added articles from Arctic:
Facing a future of change: wild migratory caribou and reindeer.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; Gunn, Anne ... 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 ...
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; Barr, William ... (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; Zazula, Grant D. ... (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 ...
Relating biomass and leaf area index to non-destructive measurements in order to monitor changes in Arctic vegetation.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; Chen, Wenjun ... (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 ...
A century of climate change for Fairbanks, Alaska.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; Wendler, Gerd ... (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 ....
Change in abundance of Pacific brant wintering in Alaska: evidence of a climate warming effect?(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; Ward, David H. ... (Received 19 June 2008; accepted in revised form 28 October 2008) ABSTRACT. Winter distribution of Pacific Flyway brant (Branta bernicla nigricans) has shifted northward from low-temperate areas to sub-Arctic areas over the last 42 years. We assesses the winter abundance and ...
After whom is Herschel Island named?(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; Burn, C.R. ... (Received 1 May 2008; accepted in revised form 31 October 2008) ABSTRACT. Herschel Island (Qikiqtaruk) is a seasonally inhabited island off the western Arctic coast of Canada. It was designated as a Yukon territorial park under the Inuvialuit Final Agreement (1987) in ...
Biogeography of freshwater ostracodes in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; Bunbury, Joan ... (Received 10 September 2008; accepted in revised form 15 December 2008) ABSTRACT. Seven species of freshwater ostracodes were identified from the sediments of 43 lakes on eight islands across the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. No ostracodes were encountered in the sediments of ...
Sources of breeding season mortality in Canadian Arctic seabirds.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; Mallory, Mark L. ... (Received 1 July 2008; accepted in revised form 4 November 2008) ABSTRACT. In more than 30 years of studies on marine birds in Arctic Canada, we have observed numerous instances of mortality of adults, eggs, and chicks that seem unusual when compared to known sources of ...
White spruce seedling (Picea glauca) discovered north of the Brooks Range along Alaska's Dalton Highway.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; Elsner, Wendy K. ... (Received 1 May 2008; accepted in revised form 13 May 2009) ABSTRACT. A white spruce seedling, Picea glauca (Moench) Voss, was found at the northern edge of the Brooks Range in Alaska, more than 50 km north of the latitudinal tree line. The seedling, 19 cm tall and about nine ...
John C. Cantwell (1859-1940) and the Kobuk (Kowak) river, Alaska.(Biography)
Sep 01, 2009; Walker, H. Jesse ... The year 2009 is among our most famous anniversaries: it represents both the 200th year since Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th since Darwin's publication of On the Origin of Species. Interestingly, it is also the 150th anniversary of the birth of Captain John Cassin Cantwell, one of ...
LANDS THAT HOLD ONE SPELLBOUND: A STORY OF EAST GREENLAND.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2009; ... LANDS THAT HOLD ONE SPELLBOUND: A STORY OF EAST GREENLAND. By SPENCER APOLLONIO. Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary Press, 2008. Co-published with the Arctic Institute of North America. ISBN 978-1-55238-240-0. Northern Lights Series, No. 11. xx + 322 p., maps, b&w illus., glossary, ...
FREE SPIRITS: PORTRAITS FROM THE NORTH.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2009; Andrews, Thomas D. ... FREE SPIRITS: PORTRAITS FROM THE NORTH. By BERN WILL BROWN. Toronto, Ontario: Novalis Press, 2007. ISBN 978-2-89507-900-2. 146 p., b&w illus., colour plates. Softbound. Cdn$18.95. For those who read and enjoyed Brown's previous book, Arctic Journal: A Fifty Year Adventure in ...
GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ICELAND'S GLACIERS: HISTORIC AND MODERN.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2009; Ives, Jack D. ... GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ICELAND'S GLACIERS: HISTORIC AND MODERN. By ODDUR SIGURDSSON and RICHARD S. WILLIAMS, Jr. Reston, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey, 2008. ISBN 0-607-97815-9. USGS Professional Paper 1746. x + 225 p., maps, colour illus., references, appendix. US$16.00. This ...
THE ARCTIC: THE COMPLETE STORY.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2009; Barr, William ... THE ARCTIC: THE COMPLETE STORY. By RICHARD SALE. Photographs by PER MICHELSEN and RICHARD SALE. London: Frances Lincoln Limited, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7112-2707-1. 632 p., maps, colour illus., index. Large format. Hardbound. US$60.00; [pounds sterling]45. This book represents an ...
THE RETURN OF CARIBOU TO UNGAVA.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2009; Gunn, Anne ... THE RETURN OF CARIBOU TO UNGAVA By A.T. BERGERUD, STUART N. LUTTICH, and LODEWIJK CAMPS. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7735-3233-5. xxxvii + 586 p., maps, colour plates, b&w illus., bib., index. Hardbound. Cdn$49.95. The Return of ...
DISROBING THE ABORIGINAL INDUSTRY: THE DECEPTION BEHIND INDIGENOUS CULTURAL PRESERVATION.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2009; Lemelin, Raynald Harvey ... DISROBING THE ABORIGINAL INDUSTRY: THE DECEPTION BEHIND INDIGENOUS CULTURAL PRESERVATION. By FRANCES WIDDOWSON and ALBERT HOWARD. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. ISBN 780773534216 (paper). 330 p., notes, index. Softbound. Cdn$29.95. Much like Cairns's Citizens ...
ABANDONED IN THE ARCTIC: ADOLPHUS W. GREELY AND THE LADY FRANKLIN BAY EXPEDITION, 1881-1884.(Book review)(Video recording review)
Sep 01, 2009; Schledermann, Peter ... ABANDONED IN THE ARCTIC: ADOLPHUS W. GREELY AND THE LADY FRANKLIN BAY EXPEDITION, 1881-1884. By GEOFFREY E. CLARK. Book and DVD. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Portsmouth Athenaeum, 2007. Book: ISBN 0-9740895-2-4. 81 p., maps, colour and b&w illus., bib. Softbound. US$20.00. DVD: 90 minutes, A ...
Books received.(Bibliography)
Sep 01, 2009; ... ASPECTS OF OKVIK: FOUR ESSAYS ON THINGS OF BERING STRAIT, edited by DON E. DUMOND. Eugene, Oregon: Museum of Natural and Cultural History and Dept. of Anthropology, University of Oregon, 2008. University of Oregon Anthropological Papers No. 68. Available from the Museum of Natural and ...
Papers to appear in Arctic.
Sep 01, 2009; ... Dyke, A.S., and Savelle, J.M. Paleoeskimo Demography and Sea-Level History, Kent Peninsula and King William Island, Central Northwest Passage, Arctic Canada. Gleason, J.S., and Rode, K.D. Polar Bear Distribution and Habitat Association Reflect Long-Term Changes in Fall Sea Ice ...
