Land Management Search Results
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Emily Chenery
Maud Henaff
Kristenn Magnusson
Jane Harms
Nicholas Mandrak
Péter Molnár
Surveying ticks on wildlife hosts consistently over time and across space presents many challenges. In Yukon, Canada, the winter tick, Dermacentor albipictus, is a blood-feeding parasite that can...
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Canadian Conservation and Land Management Knowledge Network
View this infographic to learn more about how an open source model using artificial intelligence is contributing to significant time and cost savings in identifying and classifying camera trap data.
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Justine Townsend
Faisal Moola
Mary-Kate Craig
Resource Date:
November
2020
Nature-based solutions (NbS) to climate change mitigation—such as ecosystem protection or conservation, improved forest management practices, as well as afforestation—can significantly reduce global...
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Corey Scobie
Alan Marsh
Ryan Fisher
Erin Bayne
Troy Wellicome
Petroleum development has occurred at a rapid pace on the grasslands of Alberta and Saskatchewan. To avoid potential impacts of development on burrowing owls, federal and provincial governments...
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Melanie Dickie
Geoff Sherman
Glenn Sutherland
Robert McNay
Michael Cody
Resource Date:
September
2022
In the paper 'Evaluating the impact of caribou habitat restoration on predator and prey movement', the authors evaluated movement responses of wolves, black bears, caribou, and moose on seismic lines...
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A set of 11 sites were established in the Alberta Oil Sands Environmental Research Program study area to provide baseline information on vegetation and soils with respect to air pollution impact
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Alberta Environment and Parks
Canada is a party to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, which identifies the conservation and restoration of biological diversity as a global priority. It is incumbent on the provinces and...
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Sini-Selina Salko
Jussi Juola
Iuliia Burdun
Harri Vasander
Miina Rautiainen
Boreal peatlands store ~25 % of global soil organic carbon and host many endangered species; however, they face degradation due to climate change and anthropogenic drainage. In boreal peatlands...
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Andrew Latham
Maria Latham
Nicole Mccutchen
Stan Boutin
Resource Date:
January
2011
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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Chris Powter
Marshall McKenzie
Christina Small
The Government of Alberta has long been a strong proponent of the use of native species for land reclamation and restoration projects. In 1973 the Department of Agriculture began an evaluation of...
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Gaston Laflamme
Philippe Tanguay
What is the major threat hanging over eastern white pine? White pine blister rust, which is caused by an exotic fungus, has been present in North America since the beginning of the 20th century. By...
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Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal neurodegenerative prion disease of cervid species including deer, elk, moose and reindeer. The disease has shown both geographic and species expansion since...
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Gustaf Hugelius
Julie Loisel
Sarah Chadburn
Robert Jackson
Miriam Jones
Glen MacDonald
Maija Marushchak
David Olefeldt
Maara Packalen
Matthias Siewert
Claire Treat
Merritt Turetsky
Carolina Voigt
Zicheng Yu
Resource Date:
August
2020
Northern peatlands have accumulated large stocks of organic carbon (C) and nitrogen (N), but their spatial distribution and vulnerability to climate warming remain uncertain. Here, we used machine...
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Evan DeLancey
Jahan Kariyeva
Jason Bried
Jennifer Hird
The resulting peatland occurrence model shows an accuracy of 87% compared to our validation data set. Differentiating peatlands from mineral wetlands achieved an accuracy of 69%.
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Annette Löf
Naomi Carriere
Excerpt from resource description: The northernmost regions in the world are projected to suffer the most severe consequences of climate change. Natural resource-based communities and Indigenous...
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Jean Polfus
Micheline Manseau
Deborah Simmons
Michael Neyelle
Walter Bayha
Frederick Andrew
Leon Andrew
Cornelya Klütsch
Keren Rice
Paul Wilson
Using multiple knowledge sources to interpret patterns of biodiversity can generate the comprehensive species characterizations that are required for effective conservation strategies. Caribou...
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Stephen Mayor
Stan Boutin
Fangliang He
James Cahill
Rank species occupancy curves revealed high species dominance regardless of disturbance: within any disturbance class a few species occupied nearly every site and most species were found in a low...
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Stephanie Peacock
Fabien Mavrot
Matilde Tomaselli
Andrea Hanke
Heather Fenton
Rosemin Nathoo
Oscar Alejandro Aleuy
Juliette Di Francesco
Xavier Fernandez Aguilar
Naima Jutha
Pratap Kafle
Jesper Mosbacher
Annie Goose
Ekaluktutiak Hunters and Trappers Organization
Kugluktuk Angoniatit Association
Olokhaktomiut Hunters and Trappers Committee
Susan Kutz
Effective wildlife management requires accurate and timely information on conservation status and trends, and knowledge of the factors driving population change. Reliable monitoring of wildlife...
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Jonathan Frenette
Fanie Pelletier
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
Habitat loss, fragmentation and alteration are frequently identified as important threats to biodiversity, inducing major changes in the structure and composition of species communities and the...
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Kristi Benson
Janet Winbourne
Boreal caribou are an important animal for First Nations and Métis communities in almost all regions of the NWT. Hunters and Elders have comprehensive traditional knowledge about past and current...