Boreal Caribou Search Results
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Landscape disturbance is typically synonymous with habitat loss and fragmentation, and subsequent biodiversity loss. However, the effects of landscape disturbance vary among species and disturbance...
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Eleven plantations of each of jack pine ( Pinus banksiana Lamb.) and black spruce ( Picea mariana [Mill.] B.S.P.) were established with bareroot stock during a 3-year period beginning in 1980 on sites...
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V. Fewster
Chris MacQuarrie
J.-N. Candau
Canada’s forests endure natural disturbances annually, contributing to the overall health and structure of the forest. In central Canada, the boreal forest is affected annually by both wildfires and...
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Graham Powell
Tannis Beardmore
The New Brunswick Gene Conservation Working Group was formed in 1997. The goal of the group is to develop gene conservation strategies for native New Brunswick trees and shrubs. The first step in...
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G.R. Hillman
J.D. Johnson
Sam Takyi
Three experimental forest drainage sites were established in Alberta’s boreal forest to determine the effects of lowered water tables on soils, local hydrology, ground vegetation composition and tree...
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Shauna-Lee Chai
Amy Nixon
Scott Nielsen
Assessed 16 potentially new invasive plant species not yet present in Alberta for their invasiveness and climate change-related risk
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Bonnie Drozdowski
Craig Aumann
Chris Powter
Report of a seminar to develop a collective understanding of the benefits and opportunities of Predictive Soil Mapping as they relate to Alberta
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Amy Nixon
Ryan Fisher
Diana Stralberg
Erin Bayne
Climate suitability projections, and current distribution of grassland and cropland habitats in Alberta suggest that some climate-mediated range expansion of grassland songbirds is possible
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Ashley Hillman
Scott Nielson
Abstract: Ground-dwelling macrolichens dominate the forest floor of mature upland pine stands in the boreal forest. Understanding patterns of lichen abundance, as well as environmental characteristics...
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Chris Powter
Lawrence Kryviak
Greg Balko
Al Watson
Chemical characteristics of sludge, and precautions required to protect workers, were considered major obstacles to success. However, the physical soil characteristics created by the sludge were worse
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L.D. Yeates
R.F. Smith
S.I. Cameron
J. Letourneau
Methods for greenhouse propagation of rooted cuttings of Canada yew ( Taxus canadensis) are described. Specific details on the collection and handling of cuttings, greenhouse culture, and post-rooting...
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R.J. Hall
J.J. van der Sanden
J.T. Freeburn
S.J. Thomas
The objective of this report is to review the requirements for disturbance information, the manifestation of damage patterns that may be encountered, and to provide an overview of remote sensing...
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T.J.R. White
S.W.J. Dominy
D.J. 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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Steve Hrudey
Richard Nelson
The literature on tainting of fish by petroleum-derived compounds has been reviewed for information specifically relevant to the potential for tainting of fish in the Athabasca River
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Chris Powter
John Hogenbirk
If you are planning or undertaking revegetation using long-lived species such as trees then you should be giving some consideration to the environment they may experience in the future
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Doug Maynard
K. E. Hogg
Ed Wass
M.P. Curran
Soil disturbance from forest harvesting has been shown to compromise site productivity. We established satellite trials in five of the Long-Term Soil Productivity (LTSP) sites in southeast British...
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The literature is reviewed with the aim of consolidating silviculturally important information about interactions between root system development and soil properties; a complementary objective is to...
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Pedocan Land Evaluation Ltd.
Part 1 of this manual is a background and explanatory section that describes the terminology used in soil surveys and presents the assumptions and conventions upon which the interpretations are based
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Pedocan Land Evaluation Ltd.
Part 2 presents typical data and interpretations for each soil series in Alberta. The interpretations were made by applying the guidelines in Part 1, and checking the results against experience
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One-hundred-year-old mixed white spruce–aspen stands were partially cut in 1953, 1954, and 1955 and scarified leaving treatments that retained 14–100% of total stand basal area. Composition of the...