Boreal Caribou Search Results
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Bonnie Drozdowski
Chris Powter
Heather Tokay
Dean MacKenzie
Kevin Renkema
Bin Xu
Factors to consider when assessing the ecological implications of a change in land use request (hydrology, cumulative effects and regional considerations, upland function, status of the borrow pit ...
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Chris Powter
Bin Xu
Kevin Renkema
Natalie Shelby-James
Bonnie Drozdowski
This 2022 Update is a revision of the original Decision Framework and Support Tools report based on stakeholder feedback and a field verification trial.
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Chris Powter
Natalie Shelby-James
Bin Xu
Kevin Renkema
Results of a stakeholder review of the draft Certification of Mineral Soil Pads in the Boreal Region – Decision Framework and Support Tools report and a field verification trial by practitioners.
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Climate change is an undeniable reality, and the boreal forest's response to accelerated global warming will surely have a major impact on forest ecosystems. The effect that higher concentrations of...
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Matthew Elmes
Richard Petrone
O. Volik
Jonathan Price
We assessed the hydrological changes to the hydrology of a moderate-rich fen after the construction of a road (perpendicular to flow) in 2003 and a pipeline (obliquely to flow) in 2011. New...
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Reconstructed soils representing different materials handling and replacement techniques were characterized and variability in chemical and physical properties was assessed
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Paul Pickell
David Andison
Nicholas Coops
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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Jean Birks
Yi Yi
Sunny Cho
Emily Taylor
John Gibson
This study was conducted to characterize the composition of polar dissolved organic compounds present in snow and surface waters in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) with the goal of identifying...
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Tim Williamson
Steve Colombo
Peter Duinker
Paul Gray
Ryan Hennessey
Daniel Houle
Mark Johnston
Aynslie Ogden
Dave Spittlehouse
Climate change is already affecting Canada’s forests. Current visible effects include changes in the frequency and severity of disturbances (such as fires, drought, severe storms, and damaging insect...
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Kimberly Dawe
Stan Boutin
Quantifying the relative influence of multiple mechanisms driving recent range expansion of non-native species is essential for predicting future changes and for informing adaptation and management...
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Climate change is an undeniable reality, and the boreal forest's response to accelerated global warming will surely have a major impact on forest ecosystems. The effect that higher concentrations of...
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Christopher Shank
Amy Nixon
This report provides a broad overview of how Alberta species are likely to be affected by climate change by the 2050s. Amphibians were consistently found to be the most vulnerable to climate change
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Julien Prunier
Alexandra Carrier
Isabelle Gilbert
William Poisson
Vicky Albert
Joelle Taillon
Vincent Bourret
Steeve Côté
Arnaud Droit
Claude Robert
Rangifer tarandus has experienced recent drastic population size reductions throughout its circumpolar distribution and preserving the species implies genetic diversity conservation. To facilitate...
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Martin Girardin
Xiao Jing Guo
David Gervais
Juha Metsaranta
Elizabeth Campbell
Andre Arsenault
Miriam Isaac-Renton
Edward Hogg
The reduction of freeze exposure with winter warming has consequences for carbon sequestration by northern forests. Quantifying the impact of these changes on tree growth is, however, challenging...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
We collected high-resolution aerial imagery and associated ground-truthed data from four sampling blocks in two caribou ranges to assess human footprint accuracy and state of vegetation recovery.
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Harald Thimm
G.J. Clark
G. Baker
The construction of a wastewater evaporation lagoon at the Quirk Creek Gas Plant a number of years ago resulted in the creation of a six acre area of overburden consisting of heavy clay, gravel and...
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Chris Powter
Brent Scorfield
Brent Lakeman
Shane Patterson
The development of integrated geomatics and remote sensing technologies for environmental management holds promise to meet economic diversification and effective environmental management.
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Jennifer Buss
Anna Dabros
Kellina Higgins
James Hammond
Jaime Pinzon
David Langor
The industrial footprint of oil and gas extraction in Alberta, Canada dissects the landscape in a network of linear and polygonal disturbances such as roads and well pads. The changes to biotic and...
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Ressources naturelles Canada
Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Canada has committed to cut its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Each year...
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Roger Whitehead
F. Cortini
S.W. Taylor
A.F. Linnell Nemec
J.W. Goudie
J. Vallentgoed
K.R. Polsson
The Stony Lake trial was established in 1987 to benchmark growth performance of interior spruce ( Picea glauca [Moench] Voss x engelmannii Parry ex Engelm.) and lodgepole pine ( Pinus contorta Dougl...