Report 160

150. Gunn, A., J. Lee and B. Elkin. 2005. Catalog of Data Files for Caribou Collections ( Morphologic Measurements, Parasitology, Contaminants) 84pp

ABSTRACT

In the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, caribou have been collected and sampled for a number of different programs since the 1960s.   Much of the original field data has been used to build databases, however as these databases were revised and changed mistakes have developed.  To provide accountability and accurate documentation for the data and to encourage their use in meta-analyses such as the Canadian Wildlife Service’s circumpolar assessment of caribou condition, we verified file names, field names and sample numbers relative to the original field sheets for collections that originated out of RWED Yellowknife programs 1980-2002.