Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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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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Jasmeen Kaur
Amanda Schoonmaker
Jean-Marie Sobze
Abstract: Alnus viridis (Chaix) DC. subsp. crispa (Aiton) Turrill (Betulaceae), commonly known as green alder or mountain alder, is a boreal shrub used to revegetate disturbed lands because of its...
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Lucas Roscoe
Lucas Roscoe
Rosanna Lamb
Peter Silk
Among the most useful control methods for the defoliating pest spruce budworm is tebufenozide. Tebufenozide is an insect growth regulator that, when ingested, stimulates abnormal and fatal moutling in...
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Brian Eaton
Tyler Cobb
Matt Dyson
Susan Koziel
Environmental genomics is a research method that sequences DNA from samples collected from the environment (e.g. wetlands, water, soil, organisms, etc.). This method can accelerate species...
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National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium
Resource Date:
December
2020
The Local and Harvest Interviews Factsheet is a rapid infographic-style communication covering the essentials of the Local and Harvest Interviews monitoring method for boreal caribou. This resource is...
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Finn Danielsen
Neil Burgess
Andrew Balmford
Paul Donald
Mikkel Funder
Julia Jones
Philip Alviola
Danilo Balete
Tom Blomley
Justin Brashares
Brian Child
Martin Enghoff
Jon Fjeldsa
Sune Holt
Hanne Hubertz
Arne Jensen
Per Jensen
John Massao
Marlynn Mendoza
Yonika Ngaga
Michael Poulsen
Ricardo Rueda
Moses Sam
Thomas Skielboe
Greg Stuart-Hill
Elmer Topp-Jorgensen
Deki Yonten
The monitoring of trends in the status of species or habitats is routine in developed countries, where it is funded by the state or large nongovernmental organizations and often involves large numbers...
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Deborah Jenkins
Nicola Lecomte
James Schaefer
Steffen Olsen
Didier Swingedouw
Steeve Côté
Loıc Pellissier
Glenn Yannic
Global warming threatens to reduce population connectivity for terrestrial wildlife through significant and rapid changes to sea ice. Using genetic fingerprinting, we contrasted extant connectivity in...
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Angelo Filicetti
Jesse Tigner
Scott Nielsen
Katherine Wolfenden
Murdoch Taylor
Paula Bentham
Abstract Seismic lines are linear features created by the oil and gas industry for energy exploration. Though individually narrow, collectively seismic lines are a pervasive management challenge...
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Orphé Bichet
Angélique Dupuch
Christian Hébert
Hélène Le Borgne
Daniel Fortin
Resource Date:
February
2016
With the intensification of human activities, preserving animal populations is a contemporary challenge of critical importance. In this context, the umbrella species concept is appealing because...
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Map of Range Planning areas in Manitoba.
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Canadian Conservation and Land Management Knowledge Network
This briefing note synthesizes knowledge from two resources on wetland mapping available on the Canadian and Conservation Land Management (CCLM) Knowledge Portal.
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Gustavo Queiroz
Gregory McDermid
Guillermo Castilla
Julia Linke
Mir Rahman
Coarse woody debris (CWD; large parts of dead trees) is a vital element of forest ecosystems, playing an important role in nutrient cycling, carbon storage, fire fuel, microhabitats, and overall...
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Michael Ferguson
François Messier
Major declines of populations of caribou and reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus) that permanently reside on Arctic tundra have been attributed to short-term inaccessibility of forage through restrictive...
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Trevor Stocki
Mary Gamberg
Lisa Loseto
Eric Pellerin
Lauren Bergman
Jean François Mercier
L. Genovesi
Michael Cooke
B. Todd
Diane Sandles
Jeff Whyte
Xiaowa Wang
Concern from northern communities following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident of March 2011 has prompted a reassessment of the safety of their traditional foods with respect to radioactivity...
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Virginie Christopherson
Jean-Pierre Tremblay
Patrick Gagné
Jean Bérubé
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
The Atlantic-Gaspesie caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) is an endangered, isolated population that has been declining for decades in response to intensive logging. Timber harvesting has led to a...
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Catherine Gagnon
Sandra Hamel
Don Russell
Todd Powell
James Andre
Michael Svoboda
Dominique Berteaux
Climate change in the Arctic is two to three times faster than anywhere else in the world. It is therefore crucial to understand the effects of weather on keystone arctic species, particularly those...
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This infographic by the CCLM discusses mesocosms and the InnoTech Alberta Mesocosm Facility in Vegreville, Alberta.
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Jacques Régnière
Lukas Seehausen
Véronique Martel
Despite their importance as mortality factors of many insects, the detailed biology and ecology of parasitoids often remain unknown. To gain insights into the spatiotemporal biology of insect...
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Jack Kruse
Robert White
Howard Epstein
Billy Archie
Matt Berman
Stephen Braund
Stuart Chapin III
Johnny Charlie, Sr.
Colin Daniel
Joan Eamer
Nick Flanders
Brad Griffith
Sharman Haley
Lee Huskey
Bernice Joseph
David Klein
Gary Kofinas
Stephanie Martin
Stephen Murphy
William Nebesky
Craig Nicolson
Don Russell
Joe Tetlichi
Arlon Tussing
Marilyn Walker
Oran Young
Abstract How will climate change affect the sustainability of Arctic villages over the next 40 years? This question motivated a collaboration of 23 researchers and four Arctic communities (Old Crow...
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Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt
Pouya Sabokruhie
Tammy Rosner
A novel, quasi-two-dimensional surface water-quality modelling approach is presented in which the model domain can be discretised in two dimensions, but a one-dimension solver can still be applied to...