Land Management Search Results
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Colonization of limestone bricks and bitumen coated limestone bricks by benthic river organisms was followed over time.
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Chris Powter
John Doornbos
Anne Naeth
To encourage discussion on Aboriginal participation in land reclamation and to continue identifying mechanisms to incorporate Aboriginal perspectives into land reclamation
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Robin Marles
Christina Clavelle
Leslie Monteleone
Natalie Tays
Donna Burns
This book describes the traditional Native American uses of more than 200 plants from Northern forests. Over 100 elders contributed information that they felt should be shared with other communities...
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Resource Date:
December
2019
Aboveground plants provide resources to the belowground microbial community via plant litter and, in turn, the belowground microbial community provides nutrients for plant uptake, linking the two...
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The objective of this report is to determine if the current values for soil salinity, sodicity and pH need to be revised to reflect plant species’ tolerances for these soil parameters
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Saraswati Saraswati
Christopher Parsons
Maria Strack
This study investigated the impacts of resource access roads on soil enzyme activities in contrasting forested boreal peatlands (bog and fen).
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Jessica Stolar
Scott Nielsen
Results suggest that sample weighting can be used to account for spatially biased presence-only datasets in species distribution modelling
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John Sprague
Douglas Holdway
Douglas Stendahl
Overall among the metals, vanadium was of moderate noncumulative toxicity. There should be an assessment whether aerial fallout of vanadium could create undesirable levels in slow-turnover lakes
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Alberta Environmental Centre
Determine the acute and subacute toxicity of bitumen from banks of the Athabasca River downstream of Fort McMurray to rainbow trout. Concluded bitumen was not acutely toxic to fish under dosage tested
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Mine depressurization water obtained from five wells on Lease 17 held by Syncrude Canada Limited, was examined for chemical composition and acute toxicity to two species of fish.
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Purpose of this project is to provide information regarding the acute lethality of oil sands mining and extraction plant wastewaters to fish. This Volume contains the backup data for Volume I.
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Dike filter drainage was acutely toxic to rainbow trout and brook sticklebacks. At the point of entry of the effluent, the sample was acutely lethal to rainbow trout and slightly toxic to sticklebacks
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Erin Bayne
Diana Stralberg
Amy Nixon
Use of ABMI samples to understand genetic variation and changes in genetic structure is identified as an area where ABMI data can be used to understand how biodiversity is adapting to climate change
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Claire Depardieu
Martin Girardin
Simon Nadeau
Patrick Lenz
Jean Bousquet
Nathalie Isabel
Drought intensity and frequency are increasing under global warming, with soil water availability now being a major factor limiting tree growth in circumboreal forests. Still, the adaptive capacity of...
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Jonathan Price
Owen Sutton
Colin McCarter
William Quinton
James Waddington
Pete Whittington
Maria Strack
Rich Petrone
Resource Date:
November
2023
Wetlands are an integral part of the Canadian landscape, providing crucial ecohydrological services with globally significant benefits. Over the past 75 years, Canadian scientists have emerged as...
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This summary is part of a series designed to provide local governments with easy-to-access information to help with adoption of municipal natural asset management.
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The redevelopment of understories is an often-overlooked aspect of forest restoration following anthropogenic disturbances. In my research I explored the feasibility of actively restoring forest...
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Field performance of outplants is influenced by planting depth; the effects are most evident at the extremes, when planting is either excessively shallow or deep. Planted stock cannot overcome massive...
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Barbara Darroch
Surya Acharya
AEC Hillcrest awned slender wheatgrass l Elymus tichycaulus subsp. subsecandus (Link) Gould] is a-reclamation variety developed for use in reclaiming and revegJtating oisturtea sites in the mountains...
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Harold Etter
George Lesko
Reclamation planning for tar sands mining and extraction operation differs greatly from that used in Alberta foothills and plains coal mines. One of the main differences is that the bulk of the...