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Four field experiments were carried out to assess the performance of black spruce ( Picea mariana [Mill.] B.S.P.) outplants in relation to: weed control (i.e., with vs. without), stock type (i.e...
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This technical note summarizes the feasibility of on-site interim storage of bare root black spruce tree seedlings, details snow-cache construction, and notes the costs and savings associated with the...
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Doug Maynard
K. E. Hogg
E.F. Wass
M.P. Curran
Soil disturbance from forest harvesting has been shown to compromise site productivity. We established satellite trials in five of the Long-Term Soil Productivity (LTSP) sites in southeast British...
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Anne Naeth
Donna White
David Chanasyk
Terry Macyk
Chris Powter
Don Thacker
To provide coordinated direction for reclamation research in Alberta, the need to review the current understanding and the role of soil physical properties in soil disturbance related activities was...
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Pedocan Land Evaluation Ltd.
Part 1 of this manual is a background and explanatory section that describes the terminology used in soil surveys and presents the assumptions and conventions upon which the interpretations are based
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Pedocan Land Evaluation Ltd.
Part 2 presents typical data and interpretations for each soil series in Alberta. The interpretations were made by applying the guidelines in Part 1, and checking the results against experience
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Tal Avgar
James Baker
Glen Brown
Jevon Hagens
Andrew Kittle
Erin Mallon
Madeleine McGreer
Anna Mosser
Steven Newmaster
Brent Patterson
Douglas Reid
Art Rodgers
Jennifer Shuter
Garrett Street
Ian Thompson
Merritt Turetsky
Philip Wiebe
Resource Date:
February
2015
Movement patterns offer a rich source of information on animal behaviour and the ecological significance of landscape attributes. This is especially useful for species occupying remote landscapes...
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Steven Wilson
Glenn Sutherland
Nicholas Larter
Allicia Kelly
Ashley McLaren
James Hodson
Troy Hegel
Robin Steenweg
Dave Hervieux
Thomas Nudds
Understanding spatial distributions of organisms and the consequences for conservation policy and management decisions remain important challenges. We describe a method for grouping caribou into plausible candidate Local Population Units that may better approximate geographic closure than the existing LPUs.
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Fabien St-Pierre
Pierre Drapeau
Martin-Hughes St-Laurent
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February
2022
By showing which forest roads are more used by caribou predators (wolves and bears) and its apparent competitor (moose), our study highlights the importance of considering both road-scale characteristics and the landscape context in which roads are built to prioritize the most detrimental roads to caribou conservation and guide efficient restoration efforts of its habitat.
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One-hundred-year-old mixed white spruce–aspen stands were partially cut in 1953, 1954, and 1955 and scarified leaving treatments that retained 14–100% of total stand basal area. Composition of the...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
This online report describes the status of human footprint, species, and habitat in Norbord Inc.'s two main operating areas located in northwestern Alberta. This information establishes baseline...
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Winter planting of frozen black spruce seedlings was studied in a northern Alberta wetland supported by the Oil Sand Leadership Initiative (OSLI) Land Stewardship Working Group, comprised of...
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Craig DeMars
Kendal Benesh
The boreal ecotype of woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) is provincially Red-listed in British Columbia and federally listed as Threatened. Population declines of boreal caribou have been...
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UAV-based remote sensing as a method for monitoring well pad recovery is determined to be feasible from a technical and field perspective.
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Stan Aronoff
G.A. Ross
W.A. Ross
Figures and Tables associated with Volume 1
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B.L. Barge
R.G. Humphries
S.L. Olson
The feasibility of a weather radar to map precipitation in the Alberta Oil Sands Environmental Research Program (AOSERP) study area near Fort McMurray, Alberta was investigated
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Rachel Hovel
Jeremy Brammer
Emma Hodgson
Amy Amos
Trevor Lantz
Chanda Turner
Tracey Proverbs
Sarah Lord
Rapid environmental change in the Arctic elicits numerous concerns for ecosystems, natural resources, and ways of life. Robust monitoring is essential to adaptation and management in light of these...
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August
2016
We examined how manipulating operational sex ratio (OSR: the ratio of reproductively active males to fertilizable females), could affect the intensity of competition in reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus)...
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Guillermo Castilla
Ronald Hall
Rob Skakun
Michelle Filiatrault
André Beaudoin
Michael Gartrell
Lisa Smith
Kathleen Groenewegen
Chris Hopkinson
Jurjen van der Sluijs
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February
2022
Wall-to-wall 30 m raster maps of broad forest type, stand height, crown closure, stand volume, total volume, aboveground biomass, and stand age were created for a ~400,000 km2 area, validated with independent data, and generalized into a polygon GIS layer resembling a traditional FI map. The MVI project showed that a reasonably accurate FI map for large, remote, predominantly non-inventoried boreal regions can be obtained at a low cost by combining limited field data with remote sensing data from multiple sources.
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Jean-Marie Sobze
Lakshman Galagedara
Mumtaz Cheema
Raymond Thomas
Sahari Inoue
Boreal forests across Canada and other geographic areas globally have vast networks or densities of seismic lines, pipelines, access roads, utility corridors, and multipurpose trails collectively termed “linear disturbances” or “linear features.”