Boreal Caribou Search Results
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Reclamation and revegetation of boreal sites disturbed by oil exploration depend on the availability of topsoil salvaged on-site during the disturbance. For successful reclamation, current regulations...
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Oil Sands Research and Information Network
Did You Know series was a means of highlighting interesting current and historical facts about development, economics and environmental management related to the oil sands.
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David Polster
Chris Powter
Proceedings of the 2013 Northern Latitudes Mining Reclamation Workshop and 38 th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Land Reclamation Association. Whitehorse, Yukon, September 9 – 12, 2013
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Paul Moore
Benjamin Didemus
Alexander Furukawa
James Waddington
Resource Date:
March
2021
A critical ‘threshold’ peat depth specific for different hydrogeological and hydroclimatic regions can be used to assess what peatlands are especially vulnerable to climate change mediated drought.
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Camille Defrenne
Jessica Moore
Colin Tucker
Louis Lamit
Evan Kane
Randall Kolka
Rodney Chimner
Jason Keller
Erik Lilleskov
Drainage-induced encroachment by trees may have major effects on the carbon balance of northern peatlands, and responses of microbial communities are likely to play a central mechanistic role. We...
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Resource Date:
September
2023
Although peatlands cover only 3% of the world's land, they store about twice as much carbon as in the biomass of all the world's forests combined. Thus, they are incredibly important especially for...
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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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Peatland Ecology Research Group
Schedule and abstracts from the 24th annual Symposium of the Peatland Ecology Research Group.
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Naomi Gatis
Pia Benaud
Karen Anderson
Josie Ashe
Emilie Grand-Clement
David Luscombe
Alan Puttock
Richard Brazier
Peatland restoration is experiencing a global upsurge as a tool to protect and provide various ecosystem services. As the range of peatland types being restored diversifies, do previous findings...
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Christine Kuntzemann
Ellen Whitman
Diana Stralberg
Marc-André Parisien
Dan Thompson
Scott Nielsen
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February
2023
Abstract In the boreal forests of North America, large wildfires often leave residual patches of unburned vegetation, termed fire refugia, which can affect post-fire ecosystem processes. Although...
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Objectives were to establish grass, shrub and tree species for evaluation of their response, particularly their reproduction response, to the climatic and edaphic conditions north of Fort McMurray
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2nd year of field work and intensive laboratory and greenhouse studies contribute to a much fuller understanding of the factors related to the very successful growth of Jack Pine on sand
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Lorna Harris
David Olefeldt
Nicolas Pelletier
Christian Blodau
Klaus-Holger Knorr
Julie Talbot
Liam Heffernan
Merritt Turetsky
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August
2023
Rapid, ongoing permafrost thaw of peatlands in the discontinuous permafrost zone is exposing a globally significant store of soil carbon (C) to microbial processes. Mineralization and release of this...
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Appreciable changes in biochemical functions in an epiphytic lichen, Evernia mesomorpha, were observed in response to controlled SO2 exposures even at a very low SO2 concentration (0.1 ppm)
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R.E. Farrell
C.M. Frick
J.J. Germida
The cold climate and short growing season characteristic of the major oil and gas producing regions of western Canada make it particularly important to conduct phytoremediation research on plants...
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D. Meidinger
K. Iverson
C. Cadrin
K.A. Baldwin
The Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC) is an ecological classification of natural and semi-natural Canadian vegetation. The classification is a hierarchical taxonomy, describing...
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A. Inselberg
D. Meidinger
K.A. Baldwin
The Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC) is an ecological classification of natural and semi-natural Canadian vegetation. The classification is a hierarchical taxonomy, describing...
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D. Meidinger
K. Iverson
C. Cadrin
K.A. Baldwin
The Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC) is an ecological classification of natural and semi-natural Canadian vegetation. The classification is a hierarchical taxonomy, describing...
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Authors
D. Meidinger
K. Iverson
C. Cadrin
K.A. Baldwin
The Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC) is an ecological classification of natural and semi-natural Canadian vegetation. The classification is a hierarchical taxonomy, describing...
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Authors
D. Meidinger
K. Iverson
C. Cadrin
K.A. Baldwin
The Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC) is an ecological classification of natural and semi-natural Canadian vegetation. The classification is a hierarchical taxonomy, describing...