ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
We acknowledge Lakehead University and the Government of Nunavut for financial and logistic support. Troy Hegel and the Rangifereditorial board and reviewers contributed useful comments to an earlier version of this paper. The results, interpretations, opinions, conclusions, and any errors are entirely our own; and do not necessarily represent the views of any other individual, agency, or institution. All the data for this paper were taken from public sources or are acknowledged in the text. We acknowledge the hard work and professionalism of those who collected these data and made them open-source available.