Mass balance of glaciers in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nunavut, Canada.
Changes in late-Neoglacial perennial snow/ice extent and equilibrium-line altitudes in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Arctic Canada.
Changes in late-Neoglacial climate inferred from former equilibrium-line altitudes in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Arctic Canada.
Regional congruence of vegetation and summer climate patterns in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Northwest Territories, Canada.
Peary caribou and muskox abundance and distribution on the western Queen Elizabeth Islands, Northwest Territories and Nunavut June-July 1997.
By contrast, the ice-congested conditions of the Queen Elizabeth Islands usually deter cruise ship travel.
In the high-latitude region of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, total accumulated open water is also increasing.
Key words: Peary caribou, Rangifer tarandus pearyi, cataclysmic die-off, western Queen Elizabeth Islands
Then, as the decline continued, COSEWIC reclassified Peary caribou on the Queen Elizabeth Islands (QEI; Fig.
Edlund and Alt (1989) examined in detail the regional congruence of vegetation and summer climate patterns on the Queen Elizabeth Islands. They found that in the area under consideration here, cloud cover occurred about 75% of the time during June and July.
I consider the later dates to be the more frequent timing for the peak of calf drop among Peary caribou on the south-central Queen Elizabeth Islands (calving events observed in various years have occurred between 1 June and 3 July).