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A 40-page 2017 study discussing how many radio collars would be necessary to track particular herds in the Northwest Territories. Abstract This report addresses two complementary uses of radio collars...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
This report is part of a larger endeavor to develop a monitoring program capable of detecting changes in the biological diversity of Alberta’s forested region.
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Soil quality criteria for Alberta's resource extraction industries were prepared by the Soil Quality Criteria Subcommittee of the Alberta Soils Advisory Committee. The document produced was intended...
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Samarth Kaluskar
Agnes Blukacz‐Richards
Cheryl Ann Johnson
Yuhong He
Alexandre Langlois
Dong‐Kyun Kim
George Arhonditsis
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December
2019
Study of the strength and nature of the relationships of snow density and vegetation with Peary caribou populations using a spatially explicit modelling framework.
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Bromacil and tebuthiuron are herbicides used from the 1960s to 1990s on industrial sites to control vegetation. Approximately 61,750 sites are considered contaminated when comparing total herbicide...
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Alberto Aleman
Marcel Dorken
Aaron Shafer
Tulsi Patel
Polina Volkova
Joanna Freeland
A critical knowledge gap in freshwater plant research is the lack of genetic tools necessary to answer fundamental questions about their demographic histories, adaptation and phylogenetic...
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C. Gaudet
M. Bonnell
Ted Nason
L. Hofmann
There can be little argument that contaminants are now a ubiquitous presence in our environment. Though large-scale efforts to deal with contaminant issues have traditionally focused on water and air...
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G.R. Larocque
J. Beaulieu
G. Daoust
C.-H. Ung
There is renewed interest in the management of eastern white pine ( Pinus strobus L.) for high-quality wood production. Several tree improvement programs have been implemented for the last few decades...
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Zoe Landry
Sora Kim
Robin Trayler
Marisa Gilbert
Grant Zazula
John Southon
Danielle Fraser
We investigate if and how diets of gray wolves from the Yukon have changed from the Pleistocene to the recent Holocene using dental microwear analysis of carnassial teeth and stable isotope analyses
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John Trofymow
Philip-Edouard Shay
Bradley Tomm
Jean Berube
Tod Ramsfield
Fungi play key roles in forest soils and provide benefits to trees via mycorrhizal symbioses. After severe disturbance, forest regrowth can be impeded because of changes in fungal communities. In 2013...
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Melissa Spearing
Donnie McPhee
Judy Loo
In 2021-2022, the National Tree Seed Centre led a series of surveys to establish an accurate idea of genetically appropriate seed supply for forest landscape restoration (FLR) needs across Canada by...
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Frederick Cheng
Junehyeong Park
Mukesh Kumar
Nandita Basu
Resource Date:
December
2022
Wetlands protect downstream waters by filtering excess nitrogen (N) generated from agricultural and urban activities. Small ephemeral wetlands, also known as geographically isolated wetlands (GIWs)...
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Over 70 diseases have been found and recorded on black spruce ( Picea mariana [Mill.] B.S.P.) in Ontario (Davis and Myren 1990). They range from vigorous pathogens capable of causing death or serious...
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A poster from 2016 that talks about Peary caribou on Devon Island, although the focus is on Muskoxen numbers, and the potential to harvest more of them. Related Herds: Peary This resource and others...
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Hance Ellington
Keith Lewis
Erin Koen
Eric Vander Wal
Abstract Population monitoring is a critical part of effective wildlife management, but methods are prone to biases that can hinder our ability to accurately track changes in populations through time...
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Highway rights-of-way in Alberta, and elsewhere, are dull because they consist of limited, non-native species mixes that are frequently mowed. These rights-of-way are therefore not much more exciting...
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Christine Drake
Micheline Manseau
Cornelya Klütsch
Pauline Priadka
Paul Wilson
Steve Kingston
Natasha Carr
Resource Date:
January
2018
Study of whether animal movement can be discerned, using genetic population and relatedness analyses, within and beyond the Lake Superior Coastal Range.
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Wenjun Chen
Sylvain Leblanc
Peter White
Christian Prevost
Brian Milakovic
Christine Rock
Greg Sharam
Harry O’Keefe
Laura Corey
Bruno Croft
Anne Gunn
Sjoerd van der Wielen
Adeline Football
Boyan Tracz
Jody Snortland Pellissey
John Boulanger
Resource Date:
March
2017
A 2017 paper assessing the impacts of dust from a mining haul road in the NWT on vegetation used by caribou. The paper concluded that dust from the road negatively affected the vegetation within a...
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Franck Stefani
Julien Beguin
David Paré
Marie-Josée Morency
Christine Martineau
André Fortin
Nelson Thiffault
Armand Séguin
Introduction: Reforestation of degraded lands in the boreal forest is challenging and depends on the direction and strength of the plant-soil feedback (PSF). Methods: Using a gradient in tree...
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Whaèhdôö Nàowoò Kö Dogrib Treaty 11 Council
A long 2002 paper on Dogrib (Tlicho) place names. It discusses how caribou are embedded in many place names. This resource and others can be found on the Northern Caribou Canada website. To find more...