Ecological Archives A021-105-A3

John A. Nagy, Deborah L. Johnson, Nicholas C. Larter, Mitch W. Campbell, Andrew E. Derocher, Allicia Kelly, Mathieu Dumond, Danny Allaire, and Bruno Croft. 2011. Subpopulation structure of caribou (Rangifer tarandus L.) in arctic and sub-Arctic Canada. Ecological Applications 21:2334–2348.

Appendix C (TABLE C1). Values of the Duda-Hart t test statistic for Ward’s hierarchical clustering of movement data for migratory and tundra-wintering barren-ground, Dolphin and Union island, and boreal caribou in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and northern Alberta, Canada.

No. of
Clusters 		Duda-Hart t test statistic by area
West-central1 Central2 Eastern Boreal
East-central 3 Eastern 4
1 551 150 107 19 846
2 226 218 260 12 108
3 109 109 27 5 127
4 188 32 19 4 69
5 30 17 26 5 51
6 22 21 14 11 50
7 17 20 12 4 41
8 23 23 13 7 23
9 12 12 11 3 22
10 26 14 10 2 18

1West-central area = migratory barren-ground caribou that used calving grounds A, B, C, D, E-1, and F.
2Central area = Dolphin and Union island and migratory barren-ground caribou that used calving grounds C, D, E-1, and F.
3Central and eastern area = tundra-wintering and migratory barren-ground caribou that used calving grounds E including E-1, F, G, H, and I.
4Eastern = tundra-wintering caribou that used calving grounds E including E-1, H, and I

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