Land Management Search Results
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Laureen Echiverri
Ellen Macdonald
Resource Date:
September
2019
For the purpose of informing biodiversity conservation efforts in managed landscapes, we explored whether and how understory plant communities (abundance, diversity, composition) were related to a...
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Dave Reid
Jim Sherstabetoff
Eleven major vegetation types were identified and are mapped at a scale of 1:20 000 on the eastern portion of Syncrude Lease 17.
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Seismic lines are slow to recover naturally, and many seismic lines need to be restored to contribute towards caribou recovery. Caribou predators use seismic lines to travel throughout caribou ranges...
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Everett Peterson
Allan Levinsohn
Black Spruce - Labrador Tea was the dominant vegetation type, making up 35.0% of the 9,250 ha study area. The 2nd most abundant type was Aspen - White Spruce (26.0%) and the 3rd was White Spruce – Asp
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Field data on the abundance (or percent cover) of vascular plants, bryophytes, and soil mesofauna were obtained in the summer of 2008 and 2009 from nine produced water release sites in Alberta and...
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Dr. David Andison is program lead of the fRI Healthy Landscapes program. He begins by explaining the "Why" of ecosystem management and how current approaches to land management fragments the landscape...
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The presentation covers the use of remote sensing in assessing biodiversity and how using covariate data can improve on the interpretation of results
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Kate Wilson explains how Alberta is dealing with managing invasive species, and how the process is going.
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Video tutorial that lays out the field sampling process for reclaimed wetland assessment from start to finish in easy-to-follow steps and visually clarifies how protocols should be enacted
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This presentation discusses the forest rehabilitation and regeneration research done with the Beyond Beetle project.
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Video showing a climate change adaptation transplanting trial of northern blazing star from Duchess, Alberta to the boreal zone.
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Alex Lanki-Traikovski
Michelle Knaggs
Climate refugia are areas where the impacts of climate change may be slower to materialize, providing either permanent or temporary areas of existing habitat that are more likely to persist than...
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Barry Adams discusses ecological tools and their core applications to rangeland management.
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This presentation discusses the importance of giving consideration to ecophysiology and silvics when aiming for successful stand rehabilitation after a Mountain Pine Beetle attack.
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Steven Tannas
Debbie Everts
Debbie Everts talks about some their reclamation work is southwest Alberta. Dr Steve Tannas finishes by describing a Cows and Fish riparian restoration project.
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NAIT Centre for Boreal Research
Balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera) is a woody species that can easily be propagated and deployed in the field for revegetation purposes if appropriate collection techniques are utilized. This...
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NAIT Centre for Boreal Research
Resource Date:
April
2020
Exploration of resources (i.e. oil and gas, forestry) creates numerous temporary access features, including seismic lines, winter roads, and oil sands exploration (OSE) wells in boreal peatlands...
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Nicole Kimmel provides a history of weed control in Canada and Alberta focusing on invasive weeds and their impact on natural landscapes and agriculture.
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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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I will introduce ABMI’s Ecological Recovery Monitoring program, which is establishing long-term monitoring protocols to assess ecological recovery at certified reclaimed wellsites across Alberta