Can Landsat data detect variations in snow cover within habitats of arctic ungulates?

With climate change, modelling has suggested that increased inaccessibility of forage through snow may endanger some populations of arctic ungulates; however, contemporaneous data on snow-cover conditions, other ecological factors and ungulate responses are lacking at the landscape scale. Researcher...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Wildlife Biology 2012-03, Vol.18 (1), p.75-87
Hauptverfasser:	Maher, Andrew I., Treitz, Paul M., Ferguson, Michael A.D
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Bathurst Island Canada climate change Earth resources technology satellites endangered species Environmental aspects forage habitats Landsat landscapes melting muskoxen NDSI normalized difference snow index Nunavut Original s Ovibos moschatus Peary caribou Population biology Rangifer tarandus caribou Rangifer tarandus pearyi remote sensing researchers Snow snow covered area snowmelt snowpack ungulates winter wintering grounds
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