Land Management Search Results
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Marie-Jeanne Royer
Thora Martina Herrmann
Socioenvironmental changes in Canada’s northern regions are likely to have wide-ranging implications for the health of its residents. Aboriginal communities are among the first to face the direct...
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John Virgl
James Rettie
Daniel Coulton
From 1996 to 2015 the Bathurst caribou herd has declined from approximately 349,000 to 20,000 animals. Aboriginal traditional knowledge (TK) has recently observed the later arrival of the herd below...
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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
Resource Date:
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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Kristin Denryter
Rachel Cook
John Cook
Katherine Parker
Michael Gillingham
Resource Date:
March
2020
A 14-page academic paper that examines the connection between the physiological state of caribou and how they feed. The paper says, "Foraging time by caribou was partially state-dependent...
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Amanda Koltz
David Civitello
Daniel Becker
Sharon Deem
Aimée Classen
Brandon Barton
Maris Brenn-White
Zoë Johnson
Susan Kutz
Matthew Malishev
Parasitic infections are common, but how they shape ecosystem-level processes is understudied. Using a mathematical model and meta-analysis, we explored the potential for helminth parasites to trigger...
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Heather Johnson
Elizabeth Lenart
David Gustine
Layne Adams
Perry Barboza
Resource Date:
September
2022
Investigators have speculated that the climate-driven “greening of the Arctic” may benefit barren-ground caribou populations, but paradoxically many populations have declined in recent years. This...
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Nelson Thiffault
Patricia Raymond
Jean-Martin Lussier
Isabelle Aubin
Samuel Royer-Tardif
Anthony D’Amato
Frédérik Doyon
Benoit Lafleur
Martin Perron
Jean Bousquet
Nathalie Isabel
Sylvie Carles
Patrick Lupien
Annie Malenfant
As part of the Carrefour Forêts 2019 Conference, the forest research branch of Quebec’s Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs and the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre of Natural Resources Canada...
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Eliezer Gurarie
Mark Hebblewhite
Kyle Joly
Allicia Kelly
Jan Adamczewski
Sarah Davidson
Tracy Davison
Anne Gunn
Michael Suitor
William Fagan
Natalie Boelman
Resource Date:
December
2019
A 2019 academic paper that looks at factors affecting caribou migration timing and speed. The paper concludes that later arrival at calving grounds might indicate that females are in worse condition...
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This paper argues that Sámi reindeer pastoralism in Sweden is highly stressed during the critical snow cover periods due to large-scale human interventions, especially forestry, and that these have...
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Alexander Prichard
Joseph Welch
Brian Lawhead
Resource Date:
March
2022
Academic journal article on the effects of traffic and infrastructure on the behaviour of calving caribou in Alaska.
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There is a presumption that the primary goal of creating alternative resource management systems is to increase the efficiency of the management decisions made. However, changing the rules of resource...
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Cameron McClelland
Barry Nobert
Terrence Larsen
Karine Pigeon
Laura Finnegan
In Alberta, Canada, mountain pine beetle (MPB) infestations overlap with threatened caribou and grizzly bear ranges. While MPB is a natural part of the ecosystem, increased intensity of infestation...
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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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Alexis Jorgensen
Raquel Alfaro-Sanchez
Steven Cumming
Alison White
Genevieve Degre-Timmons
Nicola Day
Merritt Turetsky
Jill Johnstone
Xanthe Walker
Jennifer Baltzer
Climate change is increasing the frequency and extent of fires in the boreal biome of North America. These changes can alter the recovery of both canopy and understory vegetation. There is uncertainty...
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Eric Palm
Shaun Fluker
Holly Nesbitt
Aerin Jacob
Mark Hebblewhite
Identifying habitat that is essential to the recovery of species at risk, known as critical habitat, is a major focus of species at risk legislation, yet there has been little research on the degree...
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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
Resource Date:
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.”
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Authors
Bridget Borg
David Schirokauer
Resource Date:
March
2022
As climate change accelerates in northern latitudes, there is an increasing need to understand the role of climate in influencing predator-prey systems. We investigated wolf population dynamics and...
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Authors
Andrew Moraga
Amanda Martin
Lenore Fahrig
Resource Date:
April
2019
Abstract: Context To detect an effect of landscape context on a species’ response, the landscape variables need to be measured within the appropriate distance from the species’ response, i.e. at the...