Land Management Search Results
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Rebecca Taylor
Micheline Manseau
Cornelya Klütsch
Jean Polfus
Audrey Steedman
Dave Hervieux
Allicia Kelly
Nicholas Larter
Mary Gamberg
Helen Schwantje
Paul Wilson
Pleistocene glacial cycles influenced the diversification of high- latitude wildlife species through recurrent periods of range contraction, isolation, divergence, and expansion from refugia and...
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Jean-Pierre Ouellet
Douglas Heard
Robert Mulders
This paper is a review of the ecology of two caribou populations inhabiting predator-free northern islands, Coats and Southampton Island. Findings are analyzed in light of the hypothesis that in...
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Deborah Jenkins
Glenn Yannic
James Schaefer
James Conolly
Nicolas Lecomte
This 2018 academic paper suggests that, based on genetics, the Baffin Island population of caribou should be treated as a separate “designatable unit” under the classification system for the Committee...
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Shawn Leroux
Fiona Schmiegelow
John Nagy
Abstract Under article 8-J of the Convention on Biological Diversity, governments must engage indigenous and local communities in the designation and management of protected areas. A better...
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Paul Jefferson
Paul McCaughey
Ken May
Jay Woosaree
Linden McFarlane
The utilization of native grass species for potential biomass feedstocks of the emerging ethanol industry requires more information about their cellulose and hemicellulose concentration. Ten native...
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Tracy McKay
Laura Finnegan
Resource Date:
November
2022
Forest harvesting alters habitat, impacts wildlife, and disrupts ecosystem function. Across the boreal forest of Canada, forest harvesting affects ungulate prey species and their predators, with...
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Tracy McKay
Laura Finnegan
Forest harvesting alters habitat, impacts wildlife, and disrupts ecosystem function. Across the boreal forest of Canada, forest harvesting affects ungulate prey species and their predators, with...
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Amir Behzad Bazrgar
Derek Sidders
Naresh Thevathasan
Afforestation systems as a pathway for natural climate solutions contributing to terrestrial C sequestration are influenced by agroclimatic conditions, tree species and clones. This study validated a...
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Eric Kessel
Owen Sutton
Jonathan Price
Given the potential for moisture limited conditions due to the sub-humid regional climate, ensuring sufficient water availability in these landscapes is a principal concern. This research demonstrates...
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Cheryl Johnson
Ronnie Drever
Patrick Kirby
Erin Neave
Amanda Martin
Resource Date:
October
2022
Boreal caribou require large areas of undisturbed habitat for persistence. They are listed as threatened with the risk of extinction in Canada because of landscape changes induced by human activities...
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James Maltman
Nicholas Coops
Gregory Rickbeil
Txomin Hermosilla
Cole Burton
Habitat disturbance is a major driver of the decline of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in Canada. Different disturbance agents and regimes negatively impact caribou populations to...
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Terry Macyk
Martin Fung
Ron Pauls
Syncrude Canada Ltd. produces 200,000 barrels of synthetic crude oil per day from its oil sands surface mining operations located 50 km north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. The three major types of...
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Hans Skatter
John Kansas
Michael Charlebois
Brady Balicki
Resource Date:
February
2014
In boreal forests, wildfire is a dominant ecological process that affects the distribution and abundance of terrestrial lichens, the principal winter food for Woodland Caribou ( Rangifer tarandus...
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Fikret Berkes
Johan Colding
Carl Folke
Indigenous groups offer alternative knowledge and perspectives based on their own locally developed practices of resource use. We surveyed the international literature to focus on the role of...
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This 2012 publication is adapted from remarks by Yellowknives Dene hunter Fred Sangris. He covers many subjects including the relationship of Dene to the caribou, traditional laws governing relations...
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Terry Callaghan
Lars Olof Björn
Yuri Chernov
Terry Chapin
Torben Christensen
Brian Huntley
Rolf Ims
Margareta Johansson
Dyanna Jolly
Sven Jonasson
Nadya Matveyeva
Nicolai Panikov
Walter Oechel
Gus Shaver
Josef Elster
Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir
Kari Laine
Kari Taulavuori
Erja Taulavuori
Christoph Zöckler
Environmental manipulation experiments showed that species respond individualistically to each environmental-change variable. The greatest responses of plants were generally to nutrient, particularly...
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Denys Yemshanov
Mackenzie Simpson
Ning Liu
Aaron Petty
Frank Koch
Eric Neilson
Cynthia Chand
George Duffy
Vita Hoyles
Chris Mallon
Abstract In western Canada, decades of oil-and-gas exploration have fragmented boreal landscapes with a dense network of linear forest disturbances (seismic lines). These seismic lines are implicated...
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Surya Acharya
Barbara Darroch
Reinhard Hermesh
Jay Woosaree
Alpine bluegrass [Poa alpina L.] and slender wheatgrass [Elymus trachycaulus (Link.) Gould ex Shinners] accessions from alpine and subalpine regions of the Canadian Rocky Mountains and eastern...
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Mathieu Leblond
Tyler Rudolph
Dominic Boisjoly
Christian Dussault
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
Protected areas are needed to conserve nature and biodiversity worldwide. The province of Québec (Canada) recently established a large wilderness area affording significant habitat protection for...
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Frank Miller
Samuel Barry
Wendy Calvert
The islands of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago lie immediately north of mainland North America in the Arctic Ocean. They are surrounded by ice for most of each year. Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) cross...