Boreal Caribou Search Results
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The Wetland Knowledge Exchange releases monthly newsletters that highlight new research, publications, news, interesting facts, events and more. In this edition you will learn about: Alberta Beaver...
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Debra Hopkins
Kaitlyn Wall
Chantale Wilson
The objective of this study is to measure and characterize concentrations of metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in plants, berries and soil predominantly located north of Fort McMurray
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Trevor Stocki
Mary Gamberg
Lisa Loseto
Eric Pellerin
Lauren Bergman
Jean François Mercier
L. Genovesi
Michael Cooke
B. Todd
Diane Sandles
Jeff Whyte
Xiaowa Wang
Concern from northern communities following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident of March 2011 has prompted a reassessment of the safety of their traditional foods with respect to radioactivity...
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Land Conservation and Reclamation Council
Alberta Chapter, Canadian Land Reclamation Association
The question we are faced with today is: How do we establish a system or systems for measuring success in reclamation?
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Shijuan Chen
Gregory McDermid
Guillermo Castilla
Julia Linke
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December
2017
Monitoring vegetation recovery typically requires ground measurements of vegetation height, which is labor-intensive and time-consuming. Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have shown great...
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Back Ersson
Tiina Laine
Timo Saksa
In Fennoscandia, mechanized tree planting is time-efficient and produces high-quality regeneration. However, because of low cost-efficiency, the mechanization of Fennoscandian tree planting has been...
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Oil Sands Research and Information Network
This report provides a chronological record of media headlines related to a variety of pipelines and pipeline proposals in Canada and the United States from April 2010 to December 19, 2014.
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September
2017
We, Fort Nelson First nation (FNFN), are People of the land and the rivers and have lived in our territory in northeastern British Columbia since time immemorial. We are also Treaty people. Treaty No...
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Virginie Christopherson
Jean-Pierre Tremblay
Patrick Gagné
Jean Bérubé
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
The Atlantic-Gaspesie caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) is an endangered, isolated population that has been declining for decades in response to intensive logging. Timber harvesting has led to a...
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Trevor White
Stephen Dominy
Darren Allen
Afforestation, the planting of trees on abandoned or under-utilized agricultural lands, has occurred to varying degrees in Ontario since the turn of the 20th century. Knowledge of plantation...
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This two-page plain language summary in Inuktitut talks about mercury in seaweed and other food eaten by caribou in the Qamanirjuaq herd. A longer, English report on this study is also available. An...
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Qamanirjuaq caribou have higher mercury concentrations than many other Arctic caribou herds. Usually, caribou get most of their mercury from lichens, but local elders described the Qamanirjuaq caribou...
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Catherine Gagnon
Sandra Hamel
Don Russell
Todd Powell
James Andre
Michael Svoboda
Dominique Berteaux
Climate change in the Arctic is two to three times faster than anywhere else in the world. It is therefore crucial to understand the effects of weather on keystone arctic species, particularly those...
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This infographic by the CCLM discusses mesocosms and the InnoTech Alberta Mesocosm Facility in Vegreville, Alberta.
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Jessica Allan
Mélina Guêné-Nanchen
Line Rochefort
David Douglas
Jan Axmacher
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October
2023
Abstract The provision of critical ecosystem services like carbon sequestration by peatlands has been degraded around the globe. Peatland restoration represents an opportunity to tackle the twin...
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April
2022
Woodland caribou populations in the Lake Superior range have deteriorated. The caribou’s decline follows industry growth since the 1900s. Islands like those in Slate Islands Provincial Park...
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Horticulture peat extraction drastically changes peatland ecosystems and their carbon and greenhouse gas balance. Comprehensive study on the combined response of methane (CH4) cycling (i.e., CH4...
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Aneta Bieniada
Laura Hug
Christopher Parsons
Maria Strack
The microbial community in peat is responsible for organic matter degradation and greenhouse gas emissions, yet its response to peat extraction and peatland restoration remains poorly understood. We...
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Joel White
D. Ahrén
L. Ström
Julia Kelly
Leif Klemedtsson
B. Keane
Frans-Jan Parmentier
An increased frequency of droughts due to anthropogenic climate change can lead to considerable stress for soil microorganisms and their functioning within northern peatlands. A better understanding...
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Tim Keddy
Derek Sidders
Connie Nichol
The goal of this operations guide is to assist those who seek to establish and manage fast growing, high-yield afforestation plantations for the vegetation of phosphogypsum (PG) stacks. The approach...