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Nicolas Feau presents a lecture to the Canadian Institute of Forestry on the 'Strong Seeds for Our Future Forests' program. The talk describes the diversity and functions of the conifer seed mycobiome...
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Grassland birds are among the steepest declining bird groups in North America, largely due to habitat loss associated with grassland conversion to cropland and shrub encroachment. To overcome this...
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Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) has been leading the effort to provide detailed and accurate wetland maps for large areas of the western boreal forest. To date, nearly 200 million acres of wetlands from...
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Predation has both direct and indirect effects on prey. I considered the possibility that caribou population growth may be limited by summer food because they quit ‘surfing the green wave’, because of...
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January
2022
Swamplands: Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs, and the Improbable World of Peat Peatlands cover around 4% of the earth and yet they store twice as much carbon as all the world’s forests. But these...
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This video is a recording of a webinar where Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) and Mikisew Cree First Nation (MCFN) presented about their plan for protecting, restoring, and actively managing...
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Matthew Pyper
Jason Barrie
Jesse Tigner
Restoration of linear features is gaining significant momentum in the context of caribou conservation, and there is significant focus on this topic within the academic literature. However, the cost of...
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Eric Neilson
Ryan Grandjambe
Ryan Abel
Lorne Gould
Dani Degenhardt
Cynthia Chand
Effective restoration and monitoring of biodiversity on working landscapes requires sustained efforts from multiple sectors, stakeholders and rights holders. Importantly, such efforts are not legal...
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Eric Neilson
Ryan Grandjambe
Ryan Abel
Lorne Gould
Dani Degenhardt
Cynthia Chand
Effective restoration and monitoring of biodiversity on working landscapes requires sustained efforts from multiple sectors, stakeholders and rights holders. Importantly, such efforts are not legal...
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One of the neat things about working in environmental monitoring is the sheer range of tools available to use, and the rate at which they’re evolving. One example that’s rapidly changing monitoring...
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January
2020
This webinar focuses on lessons learned at three fen restoration sites in South Eastern Manitoba near the towns of Whitemouth and Elma.
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The presentation discusses some of the relationships bison have with the species they share space and time with, with a focus on the northern mixed-grass prairie ecosystem. As a keystone species...
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November
2022
Presented by Meike Lemmer, PhD, Research Scientist at University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf Dr. Meika Lemmer's research studied several peatland restoration approaches following the...
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January
2019
This presentation highlights the value of wetlands to forest management and the role wetlands play in sustaining healthy forested ecosystems.
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Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal and transmissible neurodegenerative disease that affects wild and farmed cervids. It is spreading across North America at increasing rates, with cases detected...
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February
2018
The presentation provides examples of effective science communication, key implications for knowledge exchange in wetland conservation, and opportunities to help separate distractions from impact.
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March
2019
This presentation highlights the importance of northern Alberta’s “mountains” and wetlands on sustaining water flows in local streams and regional rivers in the Athabasca River Basin.
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Ground-truthing of remote-sensing of surface chlorophyll concentrations in Pigeon Lake was performed to calibrate a chlorophyll retrieval algorithm. High performance liquid chromatography and advanced...
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Moderate to rich fens covered with tamarack and black spruce cover large areas of Alberta. These peatlands are nearly pH neutral and are characterized by hummock-hollow topography where the hummocks...
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Authors
Matthew Pyper
Katalijn MacAfee
Matthew Pyper and Katalijn MacAfee present a lecture to the Canadian Institute of Forestry on the background of the 2 Billion Trees program and various silvicultural tools and practices to increase...