Boreal Caribou Search Results
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Hans Skatter
Micheal Charlebois
Simon Coats
The federal recovery strategy for woodland caribou identifies wildfires within the last 40 years and anthropogenic disturbance visible at a scale of 1:50,000, including a 500-m buffer, as disturbed...
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John Boulanger
Jan Adamczewski
John Nishi
Dean Cluff
Judy Williams
Heather Sayine-Crawford
Lisa Marie LeClerc
This report describes the results of a calving ground photo survey of the Bluenose-East caribou herd conducted in June of 2018 west of Kugluktuk, Nunavut (NU). The survey objective was to estimate...
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John Boulanger
Jan Adamczewski
Tracy Davison
We analyzed 20 data sets from post-calving surveys in the NWT and NU carried out between 2000 and 2015 using the Rivest estimator. We provide a set of working recommendations to optimize field sampling to ensure reliable estimates of herd size using post-calving methods.
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Ruth Errington
Ellen Macdonald
Natalka Melnycky
Jagtar Bhatti
Climate warming in the North could lead to lichen decline within critical woodland caribou habitat. We used repeat measurements of sixty-nine plots over ten years (2007–2008 and 2017–2018) to assess...
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Harry Seely
Nicholas Coops
Joanne White
David Montwe
Lukas Winiwarter
Ahmed Ragab
Airborne laser scanning (ALS) data has been widely used for total aboveground tree biomass (AGB) modelling, however, there is less research focusing on estimating specific tree biomass components...
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John Boulanger
Kim Poole
Anne Gunn
Jan Adamczewski
Jack Wierzchowski
Resource Date:
January
2021
The zone of influence (ZOI) is the area in the vicinity of industrial development where avoidance by caribou Rangifer tarandus or other wildlife species is observed. Here we examine ZOI around two...
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Kelly Bannister
Karin Smith Fargey
Megan Spencer
A two-day workshop “Ethical Space for Knowledge Coproduction: Workshop on Ethics in Community Based Monitoring” brought together 60 people from February 12-13, 2019, at the University of Alberta on...
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Consortium National du Savoir sur the Caribou Boréal
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April
2021
La fiche d'information sur les Étude aérienne d'occupation est une communication rapide de type infographique couvrant les éléments essentiels de la méthode de suivi des Étude aérienne d'occupation...
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Invasions by alien organisms into new habitats pose one of the most significant global threats to ecosystem biodiversity and serious threats to economies around the globe. Canada, with its vast...
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Melanie Dickie
Robert Serrouya
Craig DeMars
Jerome Cranston
Stan Boutin
Habitat restoration is a core element for the recovery of many declining species. In western Canada, habitat restoration for the recovery of woodland caribou is focused on linear features (LFs)...
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Forest ecosystems and the ecological services they provide are complex and dynamic. Disturbance and successional processes impact habitat for animals such as caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou Gmelin...
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Rachel Cook
John Crouse
John Cook
Thomas Stephenson
Body composition studies are critical for evaluating the accuracy of nutritional condition indices for predicting body components. We evaluated >40 indices of nutritional condition for caribou (...
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Matthew Elmes
Eric Kessel
Corey Wells
George Sutherland
Jonathan Price
Merrin Macrae
Richard Petrone
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January
2021
Removal and reclamation should be considered as a worthwhile venture for roads that extend through fens and are no longer in use.
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Melanie Dickie
Geoff Sherman
Glenn Sutherland
Robert McNay
Michael Cody
Resource Date:
September
2022
In the paper 'Evaluating the impact of caribou habitat restoration on predator and prey movement', the authors evaluated movement responses of wolves, black bears, caribou, and moose on seismic lines...
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Maud Laurent
Melanie Dickie
Marcus Becker
Robert Serrouya
Stan Boutin
Resource Date:
November
2020
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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Naima Jutha
Claire Jardine
Helen Schwantje
Jesper Mosbacher
David Kinniburgh
Susan Kutz
Trace mineral imbalances can have significant effects on animal health, reproductive success, and survival. Monitoring their status in wildlife populations is, therefore, important for management and...
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Dean Mutri
Donald Wishart
Topsoil conservation has become standard practice on pipeline construction in western Canada over the last 30 years. Pipeline contractors have used a variety of procedures and equipment with different...
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Abstract As the pace of climate change continues to accelerate in the North, traditional environmental knowledge systems are increasingly recognized by researchers, land use planners, government...
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Wendy Sladen
Stephen Wolfe
Peter Morse
Resource Date:
February
2020
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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Candice Michelot
Martin Leclerc
Joëlle Taillon
Christian Dussault
Julien Hénault Richard
Steeve Côté
Abstract Large-scale animal migrations influence population and community dynamics along with ecosystem functioning. The migratory coupling concept posits that movement of migrant prey can lead to...