25 record(s) found with the tag "feeding behaviour" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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To determine the productivity of the most important components of marine mammal food chains
Principal Investigator: Welch, Harold
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: To study epontic algae and amphipods in Chesterfield inlet area; to determine dynamics of Si and N as essential nutrients; to sample stomach contents of hunter-killed seals for food habit analysis....


Licence #2700
Principal Investigator: Stewart, Robert E.A.
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: To continue a study of harp seals (Phoca groenlandica), their distribution, populations, migration patterns and feeding patterns. Local Inuit hunters will do the collecting....


Licence #2636
Principal Investigator: Montgomerie, Robert D.
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: (1) Study the foraging and competition (for space) by tundra bumblebees. (2) Study the eating and nesting habits (space use) by Sandpipers....


Licence #2526
Principal Investigator: Miller, E.H.
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: 1) To undertake a study on the distribution, numbers, movements, feeding grounds, and reproductive characteristics of Atlantic walrus. 2) To describe herd composition, formation, and issolation including measurements of time ashore between feeding trips, duration of feeding trips, movements of individuals within herds and the effects of weather on individual and group behaviour....


Licence #2477
Principal Investigator: Lewis, M.C.
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: 1. general vegetation surveys. 2. plant and growth reproduction. 3. diet and food preferences of lemmings. 4. effect of lemming grazing on plant growth and reproduction. 5. mineralnutrition of lichens. 6. atmospheric sampling....


Licence #2375
Principal Investigator: MacDonald, S.D.
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: To investigate the breeding behaviour, feeding habits and nesting habitats of birds utilizing the islets in the polynias....


Licence #2196
Principal Investigator: Lewis, M.C.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: A general vegetation survey of the island and adjacent mainland to determine growth and reproduction of plants. To conduct a study of the diet and food preferences of lemmings and the effect of their grazing on plant growth and reproduction....


Licence #2154
Principal Investigator: Russell, R.M.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: Continuation of habitat studies of caribou and Muskoxen to determine the food types used by species....


Licence #2126
Principal Investigator: Gauthier, Maureen
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To determine the factors which influence the abundance of Arctic hare....


Licence #2104
Principal Investigator: Silverman, Helen
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: Narwhal Project Study involving: study and observations of feeding habits, migratory patterns, movement in relation to ice cover, behavioural observations in fiords and group size and composition, sex, etc. The project will also include a study of Inuit hunting metods and examinationof those narwhals killed by the Inuit. Tape recordings will be made of the sounds emitted by the narwhals....


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