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Eric Palm
Shaun Fluker
Holly Nesbitt
Aerin Jacob
Mark Hebblewhite
Identifying habitat that is essential to the recovery of species at risk, known as critical habitat, is a major focus of species at risk legislation, yet there has been little research on the degree...
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Peter Nix
D.W.S. Westlake
R.T. Coutts
F.M. Pasutto
Incubation of samples taken along a transect of the river just downstream from the oil sands plants showed higher rates of microbial degradation on the west bank where effluents and drainage would be
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Maria Strack
Scott Davidson
Takashi Hirano
Christian Dunn
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
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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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As Canadians, our forests permeate our lives, and Canada’s forest sector is an essential economic engine and major employer of Canadians, including in Indigenous and rural communities. The theme of...
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Jevins Waddell
Carl Davison
B.J. Min
A major theme for working in northern remote sites is overcoming logistical and technical challenges related to short season and limited access to remediate petroleum hydrocarbon impacted soil and...
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Paul Yeung
Richard Johnson
Commercially-produced enzymes were not effective in degrading oil in contaminated soil. Soil water repellency was reduced immediately by the enzyme treatment however it returned.
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The Water Brothers, a Canadian, eco-adventure TV series is exploring our vital connection with water and examining the wetlands of Ontario. The Breathing Lands highlights the peatlands of northern...
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Stephanie Bascu
Christopher Spence
Wetlands that occupy topographic depressions are a defining feature of the Canadian Prairie. These features control hydrological connectivity as they contain high storage capacity relative to...
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Researchers are exploring the transplanting of lichen as a potential tool for caribou habitat restoration. Natural disturbance, resource development, and land-use changes have resulted in a reduced...
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Soil, a great and indispensable natural resource, is gradually carried away by wind action and erosion. Agricultural producers are aware of this, and many of them combat such factors by planting trees...
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Resource Date:
February
2022
This online article gives a relatively brief overview of the status of wild caribou and reindeer around the circumpolar world.
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Jim Davies
Ryan Melnichuk
Craig Aumann
Zhongzhi Chen
Brian Eaton
An aquatic mesocosm facility consisting of thirty 15,000 L tanks was constructed in Vegreville, Alberta to support environmental research. In 2017, an experiment was conducted as an inaugural run for...
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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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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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Jonathan Matthews is Director of Tailings EPA for Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA). In his role of chairing presentations at the Oil Sands Tailings 2014 Conference, he provides a concise...
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An aquatic mesocosm facility consisting of thirty 15,000 L tanks was constructed in Vegreville, Alberta to support environmental research.
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Clive Tesar
Jody Pelissey
Ever wonder how different jurisdictions cooperate on caribou management? Here's one example. An interview with Jody Pellissey, Executive Director of the Wekʼèezhìi Renewable Resources Board about the...
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A beautifully shot 24':46" film that follows Indigenous Ekwǫ̀ Nàxoèhdee K’è caribou monitors in the Northwest Territories as they follow the Bathurst caribou herd to try to understand the herd's...
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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...