Linkages between large-scale climate patterns and the dynamics of Arctic caribou populations
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K. Joly ([email protected]), National Park Service, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, and Arctic Network Inventory and Monitoring Program, Fairbanks, AK 99709, USA. D. R. Klein and F. S. Chapin III, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, Inst. of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA. D. L. Verbyla and T. S. Rupp, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011