cc: m.hulme@uea.ac.uk, n.sheard@uea.ac.uk
date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 11:40:39 EDT
from: Jay Malcolm <jay.malcolm@utoronto.ca>
subject: Re: Canada brochure -Forwarded
to: Adam Markham <Adam.Markham@WWFUS.ORG>

Dear Adam and Mike,

	Here are my comments on the Canada scenario.  Hope this helps [Good I had a look by the 
way - see the first comment].

Cheers, Jay

Page 7, first paragraph of Permafrosts and Forests section, last sentence:
Change "destroy valuable habitats for species such as the Kodiak bear, the caribou emperor goose 
[sic], and the bald eagle" to something like:
"destroy valuable habitats for the many arctic plant species that are specialized to grow and 
reproduce despite the cold soil conditions that allow the permafrost to develop"
[note, neither the Kodiak bear nor the Emperor goose are Canadian taxa, nor is tundra important 
habitat for bald eagles...(!)]

Following paragraph:
1. Change "will therefore herald" to "may therefore herald".  I'm not on top of the budworm stuff.  
Presumably, it is based on a journal article.

2. Change the last sentence to: ...and the loss of additional areas of boreal forest has the 
potential to move the forest to a younger age-class distribution, with possible detrimental effects 
on species that use oldgrowth, such as Marten and Woodland caribou.

The Caribou and the polar bear section.
First sentence: change "has affected the caribou" to "has the potential to affect caribou 
populations."
Third sentence: change it to: "For example, the spring of 1990 came exceptioanlly early on the 
Arctic Coastal Plain, and the main dietary component of the Porcupine Caribou herd..."
"forb" is spelled "forbe"

Change photo caption to:"The Caribou, a species that is threatened by a warming climate in the 
Canadian Arctic"

Next paragraph:
change to "Further north in the polar bear's range, our scenarios suggest summer warming rates for 
Baffin.... [as it was, it implied that Baffin Island is in the southern range...]



 



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