Boreal Caribou Search Results
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
We’re pleased to announce the release of the ABMI Alberta-wide Wetland Inventory—our most up-to-date and high-resolution wetland data yet.
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
From1999 to 2015, human activity in Alberta visibly converted over 23,000 km2 of native ecosystems into residential, recreational, or industrial landscapes
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August
2021
With the support of Alberta Environment and Parks, the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute has become the trusted source for data about habitat, species, and the human footprint.
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Habitat loss occurred in nearly 70% of caribou ranges in AB and BC, and on average they lost more than twice as much habitat as they gained over the period for which data were available
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
These results suggest that restoring caribou habitat to nearly unaltered conditions may help to slow white-tail expansion, reduce predator densities, and, by extension, ,lower predation on caribou.
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
In area with increased moose hunting, moose populations dropped by a surprising 70% and caribou survival rates increased by more than 10% - enough that the caribou population stabilized
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Wolves choose to move through linear features when available, and that by doing so they could move two to three times faster than in natural forest.
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Woodland caribou populations in Alberta and BC are declining, and many will be lost without fast management action. To stem the decline in local population loss, intensively applying a cocktail of...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
In summer 2013 field crews spent five weeks sampling soil and vegetation indicators at 18 wellsites and adjacent reference sites in the Dry Mixedgrass subregion of Alberta
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To make up for timber losses caused by fire, salvage logging of burned timber is an economically attractive option. Improved logging practices could promote the establishment of regeneration while...
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Frances Stewart
Joshua Nowak
Tatiane Micheletti
Eliot McIntire
Fiona Schmiegelow
Steven Cumming
Resource Date:
August
2020
Abstract: For species at risk, it is important that demographic models be consistent with our most recent knowledge because alternate model versions can have differing predictions for wildlife and...
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National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium
Welcome! The following video provides a visual overview of the goals and objectives of the toolkit and explains how each of the tools within the toolkit work together. We encourage toolkit users to...
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National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium
The Data or Evidence Analysis section of the Boreal Caribou Monitoring Toolkit is intended to include methods that can be used to analyze the field data associated with monitoring boreal caribou and...
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National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium
The Data or Evidence Gathering section of the Boreal Caribou Monitoring Toolkit evaluates available monitoring approaches and their suitability for addressing specific monitoring objectives. The tools...
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National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium
The Decision Tree of the Boreal Caribou Monitoring Toolkit is intended to help users discuss and potentially select the boreal caribou monitoring methods that are most suitable for their project or...
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National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium
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September
2019
The Perspectives on Monitoring section of the Boreal Caribou Monitoring Toolkit documents the diverse perspectives on boreal caribou monitoring from across Canada. Immediately following its...
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Diane Culling
Deborah Cichowski
This scientific review was prepared for the B.C. Oil and Gas Research Innovation Society (Victoria, B.C.). In 2010, the Ministry of Environment (MOE) completed the Scientific Update for the Boreal...
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Environment and Climate Change Canada
This summary sheet provides a synthesis of two science pieces completed by ECCC: the 2011 meta-analysis of boreal caribou population and habitat condition, and the scientific research to inform...
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Isabelle Schmelzer
Keith Lewis
John Jacobs
Sara McCarthy
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April
2020
Highlights Boreal caribou persistence has been affected by landscape disturbance and subsequent apparent competition. Climatic conditions also affect caribou via energy gains and losses and indirectly...
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The boreal mixedwood forest ecosystem includes both coniferous and deciduous tree species and is a common and widespread ecosystem in the Canadian boreal forest resulting from harvesting, forest fires...