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Alan Pollock
Amanda Schoonmaker
Jean-Marie Sobze
Jeannine Goehing
Poplars and willows are woody species that can be propagated by stem cuttings, and grow across a wide range of site and environmental conditions. Both poplars and willows are early successional...
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Amanda Schoonmaker
Jeannine Goehing
Çağdaş Kera Yücel
Technical Note #26: Poplars and willows are woody species that can be propagated by stem cuttings, and grow across a wide range of site and environmental conditions. Both poplars and willows are early...
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José Riofrío
Joanne White
Piotr Tompalski
Nicholas Coops
Michael Wulder
When combining multi-temporal airborne laser scanning (ALS) data sets, forest height growth assessments can be compromised due to variations in ALS acquisitions. Herein, we demonstrate the importance...
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On June 25, 2018, InnoTech Alberta, the Environmental Services Association of Alberta (ESSA) and Alberta Economic Development and Trade co-hosted a workshop entitled Harnessing the Innovation System...
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National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium
Resource Date:
December
2020
The Harvest Sampling Factsheet is a rapid infographic-style communication covering the essentials of the Harvest sampling monitoring method for boreal caribou. This resource is meant to be used in...
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Ann Smreciu
Simon Landhäusser
Eckehart Marenholtz
Jean-Marie Sobze
Kimberly Gould
Florence Niemi
Amanda Schoonmaker
Production of aspen plants can be done in two ways; from root cuttings or from seeds. The former method is used to produce plants of a specific clone; and is generally used when selecting for high...
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Amanda Schoonmaker
Eckehart Marenholtz
Jean-Marie Sobze
Ann Smreciu
Alberta’s forest land reclamation criteria require the establishment of multi-strata vegetation that includes a shrub layer. Establishment of a shrub layer requires the acquisition of seed from a...
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Kristen Bondo
Bryan Macbeth
Helen Schwantje
Karin Orsel
Diane Culling
Brad Culling
Morten Tryland
Ingebjørg Nymo
Susan Kutz
Boreal woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) are listed as threatened across Canada, and a basic understanding of their health status is lacking. From December 2012 to April 2013, we...
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The Herald Reclamation Project began in the summer of 1989 and, to date, has involved clean up of a 2 acre oil spill, salvage of metal equipment used by a now defunct oil cleaning business, and proper...
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Rebecca Taylor
Micheline Manseau
Sonesinh Keobouasone
Peng Liu
Gabriela Mastromonaco
Kristen Solmundson
Allicia Kelly
Nicholas Larter
Mary Gamberg
Helen Schwantje
Caeley Thacker
Jean Polfus
Leon Andrew
Dave Hervieux
Deborah Simmons
Paul Wilson
High intra-specific genetic diversity is associated with adaptive potential, which is key for resilience to global change. However, high variation may also support deleterious alleles through genetic...
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Joshua Miller
Brooke Crowley
Clément Bataille
Eric Wald
Abigail Kelly
Madison Gaetano
Volker Bahn
Patrick Druckenmiller
Resource Date:
January
2021
Accumulations of shed caribou antlers ( Rangifer tarandus) are valuable resources for expanding the temporal scope with which we evaluate seasonal landscape use of herds. Female caribou shed their...
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Amanda Schoonmaker
Jeannine Goehing
Çağdaş Kera Yücel
The 2010 reclamation criteria for forested lands requires the establishment of both native woody and herbaceous species, while controlling undesirable and noxious weed species, to reclaim industrially...
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Resource Date:
August
2020
This document is part of the 360 tours project Toolkit developed by Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) led by Cenovus Energy Inc., in collaboration with Natural Resources Canada. The...
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Dominique Boucher
Sylvie Gauthier
Nelson Thiffault
William Marchand
Martin Girardin
Climate change is projected to increase fire severity and frequency in the boreal forest, but it could also directly affect post-fire recruitment processes by impacting seed production, germination...
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This infographic by Heather Hinam describes the Caribou Conservation through Better Cutblock Design project by the Caribou Program run by fRI Research. The background, methods, and potential uses for...
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S. Konkolics
Melanie Dickie
Robert Serrouya
Stan Boutin
To examine the effects of forest fires on woodland caribou, we collected GPS location data on five caribou ranges in northeastern Alberta.
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Sabrina Plante
Christian Dussault
Julien Richard
Steeve Côté
Resource Date:
August
2018
A 2018 academic paper to assess the effects of human disturbance on barren-ground caribou herds. This study focuses on the Leaf River and George River herds in northern Quebec and Labrador. The paper...
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Authors
Chao Zhang
Yumei Li
Xiaoyu Hu
Xiaofan Ma
Wei Jia
Kai Liu
Yonggang Nie
Abstract Aim: Understanding changes in the behaviour of threatened species responding to rapidly increasing human disturbances is critical for biodiversity conservation. Here, we synthesize a meta...
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Field survival and growth of three hybrid poplar varieties, Walker (Populus deltoides x Populus petrowskyana), Northwest (Populus deltoides x Populus balsamifera) and 38P38 (Populus balsamifera x...
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Hanna Blåheda
Miguel San Sebastián
In 2006, a British mining company started the process of extracting ore from Gállok/Kallak, in Swedish Sápmi. These grounds are used all year round for reindeer herding by the Sámi community...