Reindeer on Svalbard Adapt to Climate Change (IMAGE)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Reindeer on Svalbard Adapt to Climate Change

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Reindeer on Norway's Svalbard archipelago are experiencing the extremes of climate change, with increasingly frequent rain-on-snow events during the winter. But instead causing the population to crash, the reindeer population is able to adapt.

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Erik Ropstad

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