Acknowledgements
We respectfully acknowledge the territory in which data were collected
and analyzed as the ancestral homelands of the Beothuk and the Island of
Newfoundland as the ancestral homelands of the Mi’kmaq and Beothuk. We
thank G. Albery and members of the Wildlife Evolutionary Ecology Lab for
helpful comments on previous versions of this manuscript. We also thank
members of the Newfoundland and Labrador Wildlife Division, including S.
Moores, B. Adams, W. Barney, and J. Neville, for facilitating animal
captures and for logistical support in the field. We thank T. Bergerud
and S. Mahoney for their vision in initiating much of the work on
caribou in Newfoundland. Funding for this study was provided by a
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Vanier Canada
Graduate Scholarship to QMRW, NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships to MPL
and MB, and a NSERC Discovery Grant to EVW.
Table 1: Summary of predictions.