Small mammals and hares play a keystone role in both Arctic and boreal ecosystems. They are a major prey species for many northern carnivores. The cyclic fluctuations in the abundance of small mammals and hares are often repeated in the fluctuations seen in the abundance of their predators.
The small mammal and hare surveys in the Northwest Territories are designed to monitor changes in voles, mice, lemmings, shrews and hares in many sites across all ecozones in the NWT using standard protocols.
Renewable Resource Officers, wildlife co-management boards, government biologists, academic researchers and environmental consultants have been involved with small mammal and hare monitoring since the late 1980s.
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NWT Small Mammals Survey
Additional Info
- Project: NWT Small Mammals Survey
- Dataset Title: NWT Small Mammals Survey
- Data Series: NWT Small Mammals Survey
- Orginator: Environment and Natural Resources Department, GNWT
- Institution Type: gov't - territorial/provincial
- Author: ENR, GNWT
- Distributor: Environment and Natural Resources Department, GNWT
- Data Type: spatial
- Délı̨nę District: yes
- K’asho Got’ı̨nę District: yes
- Tulı́t’a District: yes
- Time Period: ongoing
- Version: unknown
- Access Constraints: open download - no login
- Use Constraints: unknown
- Completion Status: ongoing
- Maintenance: unknown
- Maintenance Frequency: unknown
- Metadata Available: Some online
- Metadata Contact: Suzanne Carriere This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
- Spatial Extent: Northern Canada
- Traditional Knowledge: no
- Wildlife: yes
- Habitat: yes
- Keywords: mammal, hare, trap, voles, mice, lemmings, shrews, hares
- Data Category: text
- Format: text
- Dataset Descriptive Name: Small Mammal and Hare Surveys
- File Name: unknown
- Scale: unknown
- Other Digital Formats: Charts created via online tool
Phone: 867-374-4040
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