Land Management Search Results
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Rob Johns
Véronique Martel
The spruce budworm is a native forest insect that inhabits the spruce-fir forests of northeastern North America. Outbreaks of this insect occur every 30 to 40 years. During this cycle, populations...
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With climate change, Canada’s forests will be exposed to rapid changes in their environment, including variations in temperature and precipitation. Tree species will have to migrate to find the...
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Randi Lupardus
Ermias Azeria
Kierann Santala
Isabelle Aubin
Anne McIntosh
Results suggest that even as practices and policies evolve, reclamation does not fully alleviate the legacy effects of industrial disturbance. Trait-based approaches can inform recovery assessment.
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Chibuike Chigbo
Amanda Schoonmaker
Dani Degenhardt
Land application of biosolids may be an effective strategy to improve soil quality and better support the establishment of native vegetative cover on an industrial footprint with marginal soil...
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Controlling insect pests in forests is a constant challenge. Aside from prevention and monitoring, there are very few means available to achieve this goal. With the aim of heading off trouble and...
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Jennifer Hird
Alessandro Montaghi
Gregory McDermid
Jahan Kariyeva
Brian Moorman
Scott Nielsen
Anne McIntosh
Good statistical agreement between key structural vegetation parameters, such as mean and maximum vegetation height, with PPC metrics successfully predicting most height and tree-diameter metrics.
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This publication reports on various forest genomics research projects that seek to expand our knowledge of specific spruce budworm (SBW) genes. Canadian Forest Service researchers targeted genes that...
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William Wadsworth
Ave Dersch
Robin Woywitka
Kisha Supernant
The Athabasca Oil Sands (AOS) region of Alberta has one of the densest accumulations of known archaeological sites, and possibly the most archaeological sites at risk, in the country. Expanding...
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Canada has 76 native willow species distributed across every region of the country. Willows are usually among the first species to appear following disturbance and can survive on low-fertility sites...
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This study describes biomass production, colony formation, and clonal spread via root stems of a wide-ranging North American willow species, Salix interior (INT), one of the few willows that can...
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D. Meidinger
K.A. Baldwin
The Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC) is an ecological classification of natural and semi-natural Canadian vegetation. The classification is a hierarchical taxonomy, describing...
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D. Meidinger
K.A. Baldwin
The Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC) is an ecological classification of natural and semi-natural Canadian vegetation. The classification is a hierarchical taxonomy, describing...
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Climate change will result in more frequent and severe disturbances such as droughts and fire, causing changes in forest dynamics and increasing stress on trees. Individual tree species vary in their...
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Erin Tattersall
Karine Pigeon
Doug MacNearney
Laura Finnegan
Habitat restoration is a necessary component of wildlife conservation in anthropogenic landscapes. To ensure restoration initiatives achieve the desired effects on wildlife communities, it is useful...
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Jay Johnson
Richard Howitt
Gregory Cajete
Fikret Berkes
Renee Pualani Louis
Andrew Kliskey
Indigenous and sustainability sciences have much to offer one another regarding the identification of techniques and methods for sustaining resilient landscapes. Based upon the literature, and our...
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Jeremy Brammer
Allyson Menzies
Laurence Carter
Xavier Giroux-Bougard
Manuelle Landry-Cuerrier
Melanie-Louise Leblanc
Mikhaela Neelin
Emily Studd
Murray Humphries
Traditional food systems based on harvest from the local environment are fundamental to the well-being of many communities, but their security is challenged by rapid socio-ecological change. We...
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Tracy McKay
Ellinor Sahlén
Ole-Gunnar Støen
Jon Swenson
Gordon Stenhouse
Oil and gas development is widespread in west – central Alberta, yet little is known about the potential impacts of oil and gas activities on grizzly bear habitat use. Focusing on the impacts of one...
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Joseph Bennett
Sean Maxwell
Amanda Martin
Iadine Chadès
Lenore Fahrig
Benjamin Gilbert
Resource Date:
February
2018
Abstract: The question of when to monitor and when to act is fundamental to applied ecology and notoriously difficult to answer. Value of information (VOI) theory holds great promise to help answer...
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Erin Tattersall
Karine Pigeon
Doug MacNearney
Laura Finnegan
Sunny Tseng
Linear feature restoration is aimed at conserving woodland caribou by deterring use by predators and other ungulate prey. This infographic by Sunny Tseng describes the key results from a paper by Erin...
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What is the major threat hanging over eastern white pine? White pine blister rust, which is caused by an exotic fungus, has been present in North America since the beginning of the 20th century. By...