Boreal Caribou Search Results
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Dave McCoy
Henry Regier
Dave Graveland
Physical and chemical analyses of spent sand indicate that this material is very infertile. The spent sand samples analysed had an average pH of 7.2 and low Na content
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Patricio Pacheco-Cancino
Rubén Carrillo-López
Armando Sepulveda-Jauregui
Marcelo Somos-Valenzuela
Mosses of the genus Sphagnum are the dominant vegetation in most pristine peatlands in temperate and high-latitude regions. They play a crucial role in carbon sequestration, being responsible for ca...
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The United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021–2030 (hereafter “UN Decade”) recognizes the critical need to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of the world’s ecosystems. Effective...
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InnoTech Alberta
University of Alberta
The InnoTech/UofA above ground mesocosm facility enables configurable, innovative approaches for assessing potential environmental and ecological impacts of industrial activities
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
This online report describes the status of human footprint, species, and habitat in Norbord Inc.'s two main operating areas located in northwestern Alberta. This information establishes baseline...
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Meredith Theus
Nicholas Ray
Sheel Bansal
Meredith Holgerson
Shallow freshwaters release large amounts of greenhouse gases. These shallow waterbodies are often dominated by submersed plants, yet the role these plants have in affecting greenhouse gas release is...
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L. Archambault
J. Morissette
In Quebec, the bioclimatic zone of balsam fir-yellow birch covers an area of 94,768 km 2. Some of the forest cover types in the area, such as balsam fir-yellow birch, are among the most productive in...
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Matthew Pyper
Chris Powter
Tim Vinge
For reclaimed lands to be considered self-sustaining they should respond to natural and anthropogenic disturbances in a similar manner to how an analogous undisturbed landscape might respond
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Roger Berdusco
Anthony Milligan
Kaiser Resources Ltd. owns and operates a 5 million ton per year open pit and hydraulic coal mine near Sparwood in Southeastern British Columbia. Since 1969, Kaiser has maintained a field scale...
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Dean MacKenzie
Anne Naeth
Research has shown forest surface soil provides an economical, diverse and abundant source of native propagules and an important source of nutrients and soil fauna. Salvage depth affects soil quality
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Oil Sands Research and Information Network
Survey demonstrated need to better communicate availability of existing information and continue to make efforts to provide easy, timely and transparent access to monitoring and research information
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Robert Powers
Peter Avers
Along with water and air, soil is the most fundamental of resources. This unconsolidated skin of the earth is the source from which many other resources and our most valued commodities flow. And along...
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Includes sections outlining the requirements of: Environmental impact to tar sands development, Water Resources Act, Clean Air Act , Clean Water Act and land reclamation
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Conservation and Utilization Committee
More emphasis is placed on field programs than on greenhouse studies, because of the nature of the problems involved. However, some topics can only be studied by laboratory methods for several years,
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Eunji Byun
Fereidoun Rezanezhad
Linden Fairbairn
Stephanie Slowinski
Nathan Basiliko
Jonathan Price
William Quinton
Pascale Roy-Léveillée
Kara Webster
Philippe Van Cappellen
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December
2021
Peat accumulation in high latitude wetlands represents a natural long-term carbon sink, resulting from the cumulative excess of growing season net ecosystem production over non-growing season (NGS)...
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Marie-Eve Gauthier
Line Rochefort
Leonie Nadeau
Sandrine Hugron
Bin Xu
Resource Date:
February
2017
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
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The study's purpose is to assess the nutrient self-sufficiency of five-year-old reclaimed areas in montane and subalpine environments. Adjacent, undisturbed native grasslands were also studied for...
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The Ecosystem Management Emulating Natural Disturbance (EMEND) Project is a large-scale variable retention harvest experiment designed to test effects of residual forest structure on ecosystem...
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Richard Johnson
Peter Bork
Paul Layte
Oil sands processing operations in northeastern Alberta generate 25 x 106 m3 of water-fines mixtures (sludge) per year. The fines settle in several weeks but will not consolidate to more than 35%...
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Sophie Wilkinson
Paul Moore
Dan Thompson
Mike Wotton
Stefan Hvenegaard
David Schroeder
James Waddington
Resource Date:
December
2018
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...