Reindeer Herding in Transition: Feedbacks Between Climate, Caribou, and Local Communities in Northwest Alaska.

由于大量西部北极驯鹿在冬季迁徙到半岛，阿拉斯加苏厄德半岛的驯鹿放牧发生了重大变化。这项研究将研究这种变化的环境和社会经济条件。这项工作将查明影响放牧做法的气候因素，并将评估驯鹿放牧在自给自足经济中的作用。这项研究将考察驯鹿放牧对生态系统可持续性的生态影响。最后，它将模拟因迁出区域和牧场退化而造成的损失的社会经济后果，以及畜群管理的变化，以便设计减轻这些影响的畜群管理战略。这项工作将涉及当地和教育社区。

Significant change has occurred in reindeer herding in the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, due to the migration of large numbers of the Western Arctic Herd caribou onto the Peninsula in winter. This research would study the environmental and socio-economic conditions of this change. The work would identify climate factors that influence herding practices and would evaluate the role of reindeer herding in the subsistence economy. The research will examine the ecological impacts of caribou grazing on ecosystem sustainability. Finally, it would model the socio-economic consequences of losses via migration out of the region and via range deterioration as well as changes in herd management in order to design strategies for herd management that would mitigate these impacts. The work would involve local and educational communities.