Arctic Ungulate Research and Management: the Past, the Present and the Future
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Arctic Ungulate Research and Management: The Past, the Present and the Future 16‒21 August 2015, Røros, Norway Arctic Ungulate Research and Management: The Past, the Present and the Future 1 Contents 1 Contents .................................................................................................................................................... 2 2 Conference theme .................................................................................................................................... 8 3 Organization ............................................................................................................................................. 9 3.1 Organizing Committee ..................................................................................................................... 9 3.2 Scientific Committee ...................................................................................................................... 10 3.3 Sponsors ......................................................................................................................................... 10 4 International Arctic Ungulate Society ..................................................................................................... 11 4.1 Executive Committee ..................................................................................................................... 11 5 Conference agenda ................................................................................................................................. 12 6 General information ............................................................................................................................... 20 6.1 Conference venue .......................................................................................................................... 20 6.2 Registration and information desk ................................................................................................. 20 6.3 Session venues ............................................................................................................................... 21 6.4 Oral presentations .......................................................................................................................... 21 6.5 Poster presentations ...................................................................................................................... 21 6.6 Meals and coffee breaks ................................................................................................................ 21 6.7 Exhibition area ............................................................................................................................... 22 6.8 Conference proceedings ................................................................................................................ 22 6.9 Social events and entertainment ................................................................................................... 22 6.10 Field trip ......................................................................................................................................... 22 6.11 Weather ......................................................................................................................................... 23 6.12 Personal insurance ......................................................................................................................... 23 6.13 Telephone and Wi-Fi ...................................................................................................................... 23 6.14 Currency, credit cards and payment .............................................................................................. 23 6.15 Tourist information ........................................................................................................................ 23 7 Conference program with abstracts ....................................................................................................... 25 Session 1: Key notes for the conference ................................................................................................ 25 1.1 Managing Rangifer - why, how and for whom? ......................................................................... 25 1.2 Ecology, evolution and management of ungulates: the complications of age ......................... 25 1.3. Demography, migration and population genetics of migratory caribou in the context of climate change ............................................................................................................................... 26 2 Session 2. Population dynamics, habitats and climate change .............................................................. 29 2.1. Svalbard reindeer population dynamics – status report from a 20 year research program .............................................................................................................................................. 29 2.2. Global declines of caribou and reindeer .................................................................................... 30 2.3 Population monitoring and the quest to understand reindeer responses to habitat fragmentation and climate change ................................................................................................... 30 2.4 Changes in the primary productivity of caribou calving grounds: The mixed influences of climatic variation and caribou foraging pressure ......................................................................... 31 2.5. Ecological changes and conservation conflicts of wild tundra reindeer in the eastern Siberia ................................................................................................................................................. 31 2.6. Sex-specific effects of climate and density-dependence cause fluctuating adult sex ratios in a large Arctic herbivore ....................................................................................................... 31 2.7. Reindeer and snow patches – a melting history of interactions .............................................. 32 2.8. Reindeer use of Yamal tundra measured with pellet-group counts: understanding reindeer effects on willow growth and recruitment in a landslide area ......................................... 32 2.9. Caribou on ice – Assessing the relationships between global warming, lake ice, and caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) migrations in northern Québec, Canada .............................. 33 Session 3. Poster session ........................................................................................................................ 34 Session 4: Population management and harvest practices ................................................................... 37 4.1. Harvest management of Yukon’s mountain caribou: Decision-making in the face of uncertainty .......................................................................................................................................... 37 4.2. Herd structure, harvest strategies and productivity in Fennoscandian reindeer husbandry ........................................................................................................................................... 37 4. 3. Modeling hunter harvest in barren-ground caribou in the Northwest Territories, Canada during a period of decline between 2009 and 2014 ........................................................... 38 4.4. Management of caribou in Greenland ....................................................................................... 38 4.5 Landscape use and movement of reindeer and moose in the Scandinavian mountainous landscape ..................................................................................................................... 38 4.6. Inuvialuit traditional knowledge of caribou and modern conservation management ............ 39 Session 5: Living in a changing landscape: Anthropogenic effects and disturbance ............................. 41 5.1 Wild reindeer in the anthropocene: is it possible to reconcile conservation with human development? ........................................................................................................................ 41 5.2 Ecophysiology of a partially migratory large arctic ungulate ..................................................... 42 5.3 Natural and anthropogenic environmental change threaten the future of a remote mountain caribou herd – An inuit knowledge perspective .............................................................. 42 5.4. Evidence that dark adapted reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) can detect corona ultraviolet light on high voltage power lines: physiological basis and ecological consequences ..................................................................................................................................... 43 5.5 Shifting summer ranges and changes in calving areas of reindeer around Snæfell in East Iceland. The effects of hydropower plant construction at Kárahnjúkar .................................. 43 5.6 How do we best address scale for disturbance studies on Rangifer area use? ........................ 44 5.7 Caribou movement responses to human activity and physiography in Noatak National Preserve, Alaska .................................................................................................................................. 44 Session 6: Poster session .......................................................................................................................