Boreal Caribou Search Results
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Authors
Bead Pinno
Ruth Errington
Actively facilitating the natural establishment of trees on reclamation sites is seen as an important step in ecosystem recovery after oil sands mining. We examined the effect of different reclamation...
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Authors
Shijuan Chen
Gregory McDermid
Guillermo Castilla
Julia Linke
Resource Date:
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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Abdul Samad
Dani Degenhardt
Armand Séguin
Marie-Josée Morency
Patrick Gagné
Christine Martineau
The oil sands mining operations in Alberta have produced billions of m3 of tailings which must be reclaimed and integrated into various mine closure landforms, including terrestrial landforms...
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Laura Boisvert-Marsh
John Pedlar
Sylvie de Blois
Amael Le Squin
Kevin Lawrence
Daniel McKenney
Charlene Williams
Isabelle Aubin
Species distribution modelling (SDM) has been used to understand how climate affects where tree species currently grow and how those suitable climate conditions could change in the future. These...
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Jacques Régnière
Lukas Seehausen
Véronique Martel
Despite their importance as mortality factors of many insects, the detailed biology and ecology of parasitoids often remain unknown. To gain insights into the spatiotemporal biology of insect...
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Anne McIntosh
Bonnie Drozdowski
Dani Degenhardt
Chris Powter
Christina Small
John Begg
Dan Farr
Arnold Janz
Randi Lupardus
Delinda Ryerson
Jim Schiek
We developed a scientifically robust and financially sustainable monitoring protocol to enable a consistent assessment of ecological recovery at reclaimed industrial wellsites in forested lands
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Paul Pickell
Sarah Gergel
Nicholas Coops
David Andison
The accelerated development of energy resources around the world has substantially increased forest change related to oil and gas activities. In some cases, oil and gas activities are the primary...
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Craig DeMars
Robert Serrouya
M.A. Mumma
M.P. Gillingham
Scott McNay
Stan Boutin
Natural disturbance plays a key role in shaping community dynamics. Within Canadian boreal forests, the dominant form of natural disturbance is fire, and its effects are thought to influence the...
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This plan provides land-use resource development direction for industry and regulators for the Moose Lake 10km zone, a planning area located approximately 100 kilometers northwest of Fort McMurray in...
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Nicolas Mansuy
Katalijn MacAfee
The main aim of this paper is to help students and early career ecologists identify a variety of careers outside of academia. We provide practical advice, as well as hints and tips on what they will...
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Megan Hornseth
Karine Pigeon
Doug MacNearney
Terrence Larsen
Gordon Stenhouse
Jerome Cranston
Laura Finnegan
Natural regeneration of seismic lines, cleared for hydrocarbon exploration, is slow and often hindered by vegetation damage, soil compaction, and motorized human activity. There is an extensive...
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Laureen Echiverri
Ellen Macdonald
Scott Nielsen
Treed peatlands are dominated by bryophytes, particularly Sphagnum spp., which create the characteristic hummock-hollow microtopography. This, in turn, shapes the distribution of bryophyte communities...
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Daniel Fortin
Pietro-Luciano Buono
André Fortin
Nicolas Courbin
Christian Gingras
Paul Moorcroft
Réhaume Courtois
Claude Dussault
Associate Editor: Wolf Mooij
Editor: Judith Bronstein
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Ronnie Drever
Susan Cook-Patton
Fardausi Akhter
Pascal Badiou
Gail Chmura
Scott Davidson
Raymond Desjardins
Andrew Dyk
Joseph Fargione
Max Fellows
Ben Filewood
Margot Hessing-Lewis
Susantha Jayasundara
William Keeton
Timm Kroeger
Tyler Lark
Edward Le
Sara Leavitt
Marie-Eve LeClerc
Tony Lemprière
Juha Metsaranta
Brian McConkey
Eric Nielson
Guillaume Peterson St-Laurent
Danijela Puric-Mladenovic
Sebastien Rodrigue
Raju Soolanayakanahally
Seth Spawn
Maria Strack
Carolyn Smyth
Naresh Thevathasan
Mihai Voicu
Christopher Williams
Peter Woodbury
Devon Worth
Zhen Xu
Samantha Yeo
Werner Kurz
Alongside the steep reductions needed in fossil fuel emissions, natural climate solutions (NCS) represent readily deployable options that can contribute to Canada’s goals for emission reductions. We...
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Cassidy van Rensen
Scott Nielsena
Barry White
Tim Vinge
Victor Lieffers
Mapping of oil reserves involves the use of seismic lines (linear disturbances) to determine both their location and extent. Conventional clearing techniques for seismic assessment have left a legacy...
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Authors
Laura Finnegan
Karine Pigeon
Jerome Cranston
Mark Hebblewhite
Marco Musiani
Lalenia Neufeld
Fiona Schmiegelow
Julie Duval
Gordon Stenhouse
Resource Date:
April
2018
Across the boreal forest of Canada, habitat disturbance is the ultimate cause of caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) declines. Habitat restoration is a focus of caribou recovery efforts, with a goal...
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Authors
Steven Wagers
Guillermo Castilla
Mihai Voicu
Tyler Rea
Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa
Black spruce is the most common tree species in Canada, dominating treed peatlands where they are usually stunted. We used 495 destructively sampled trees from 56 plots to develop allometric models of...
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Charles Marty
Joanie Piquette
Hubert Morin
Denis Bussières
Nelson Thiffault
Daniel Houle
Robert Bradley
Myrna Simpson
Rock Ouimet
Maxime Paré
The forest floor of boreal forest stores large amounts of organic C that may react to a warming climate and increased N deposition. It is therefore crucial to assess the impact of these factors on the...
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Resource Date:
September
2017
Rapid landscape alteration associated with human activity is currently challenging the evolved dynamical stability of many predator–prey systems by forcing species to behaviourally respond to novel...