Land Management Search Results
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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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Northern peatlands are significant contributors to global biogeochemical cycles. In Canada alone, peatlands cover over a tenth of the land surface and store over half of the country’s terrestrial...
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Lorna Harris
Karen Richardson
Kelly Bona
Scott Davidson
Sarah Finkelstein
Michelle Garneau
Jim McLaughlin
Felix Nwaishi
David Olefeldt
Maara Packalen
Nigel Roulet
Meg Southee
Maria Strack
Kara Webster
Sophie Wilkinson
Justina Ray
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November
2021
Northern peatlands have cooled the global climate by accumulating large quantities of soil carbon (C) over thousands of years. Maintaining the C sink function of these peatlands and their immense long...
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Darya Anderson
James Ford
Robert Way
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November
2020
Abstract The traditional subsistence activities of Indigenous communities in Canada's subarctic are being affected by the impacts of climate change, compounding the effects of social, economic and...
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Alex Horne
Marc Beutel
Greg Woodside
Nitrate pollution of surface water from farms and urban runoff is widespread – impairing drinking water supplies, recreation, and wildlife habitat. The scale of the problem in rivers has overwhelmed...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
This report presents data on several indicators of environmental health for the Kakwa River Project area where ARC Resources operates in northwestern Alberta. The Kakwa River Project area covers...
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Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers
Marcel Kok
Over fifty years of global conservation has failed to bend the curve of biodiversity loss, so we need to transform the ways we govern biodiversity. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity aims to...
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G20 Global Land Initiative
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration
UN Environment Programme
On the occasion of Word Wetlands Day on 2 February 2023, the G20 Global Land Initiative Coordination Office in partnership with the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration...
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The goal of the program is to develop a set of spatially explicit models that can be used to map the supply and economic value ecosystems goods and services
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Wendy MacKeigan
Alex Mifflin
Tyler Mifflin
Samantha Blake
Jacob Thompson
Nick Koro
Resource Date:
November
2023
Wetlands are the most diverse and ecologically important ecosystems in Ontario. They help purify water, control floods, reduce erosion and fight climate change. They provide critical habitat for...
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Ernie Hui gave a keynote address at the CWRA-WPAC joint conference on March 13, 2013. Ernie Hui is the CEO, Environmental Monitoring, for Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development. The...
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This 2012 presentation discusses environmental markets for ecosystem services.
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March
2022
This 10-minute video will equip you with the knowledge to identify the different wetland classes found in Canada's boreal. Identification of wetland types is a first step toward conservation and a...
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October
2017
This webinar explores the effects of roads built through peatlands with horizontal water flow, including ability to affect local hydrology and thus vegetation composition and structure.
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March
2017
This presentation provides an introduction to the Peatland Restoration program at the NAIT Boreal Research Institute and the program's current research.
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The February 2020 Wetland Best Management Practice Knowledge Exchange webinar. Dr. Cherie Westbrook with the University of Saskatchewan discussed the role and importance of beavers as ecosystem...
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This ongoing project characterized changes and early responses in biodiversity and environmental conditions along seismic lines in relation to the adjacent forest.
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January
2017
Ducks Unlimited Canada's Best Management Practices Team (BMP) was developed in 2012 to help industry’s growing efforts to implement practices that support the responsible management of wetlands...
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March
2021
Rapid functional assessment tools like WESP (Wetland Ecosystem Services Protocol) give the ability to quantify several wetland functions and benefits, such as water storage, carbon sequestration and...