Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Amy Wotherspoon
Nelson Thiffault
Robert Bradley
Scarification is a mechanical site preparation technique designed to create microsites that will favor the growth of planted tree seedlings after clearcutting. However, the positive growth response of...
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Anthony Stewart
Meghan Halabisky
Chad Babcock
David Butman
David D’Amore
Monika Moskal
Inland wetlands are critical carbon reservoirs storing 30% of global soil organic carbon (SOC) within 6% of the land surface. However, forested regions contain SOC-rich wetlands that are not included...
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Alberta Environmental Protection, Technical Services and Monitoring Division
Study was undertaken in response to concerns raised by the City of Fort McMurray over the validity of the elevation established in previous studies as representing the 1 in 100 year design flood level
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Ronny Seidel
Ullrich Dettmann
Bärbel Tiemeyer
Peat and other organic soils (e.g., organo-mineral soils) show distinctive volume changes through desiccation and wetting. Important processes behind volume changes are shrinkage and swelling. There...
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ALCES models future changes based on known environment and landscape cover, an understanding of historic changes, and projected indicators of change to the environment, human footprint and landscape.
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Sahtú Environmental Research and Monitoring (ERM) Forum meeting presentation of the Sahtu Regional Environmental Decision Support Tool Set.
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Millennium EMS Solutions Ltd.
The current document reports specifically on issues relating to the ecological direct contact exposure pathway (growth and reproduction of plants and soil invertebrates) in native grasslands areas of...
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Millennium EMS Solutions Ltd.
The current document is focussed specifically on issues relating to the ecological direct contact exposure pathway (growth and reproduction of plants and soil invertebrates) in native grasslands areas...
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Nick DeCesare
Wibke Peters
Christina Semeniuk
Marco Musiani
Mark Hebblewhite
Avoidance by caribou and increased wolf predation risk in disturbed areas indicate functional habitat loss for caribou, yet these patterns alone do not necessarily imply a demographic impact. Spatial...
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Nick DeCesare
Christina Semeniuk
Marco Musiani
Mark Hebblewhite
Jesse Whittington
Angela Aivaz
Our primary goal is to address the relative contributions of forestry and oil and gas production to the decline of caribou populations. This knowledge can then be used to develop appropriate...
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Christina Semeniuk
Byron Weckworth
Marco Musiani
Mark Hebblewhite
Anthropogenic disturbances contribute to the way animals perceive and respond to their environment. These multiple disturbances can additionally act in non-independent ways to shape an animal’s...
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Environment and Climate Change Canada
The Woodland Caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou), Boreal Population was last assessed by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada as Threatened (COSEWIC 2002), and listed under...
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This thesis investigates the effectiveness of machine learning algorithms for automatic detection of coniferous seedling data along Boreal seismic lines. In order to obtain a survival assessment and...
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Denyse Dawe
Marc-André Parisien
Yan Boulanger
Jonathan Boucher
Alexandre Beauchemin
Dominique Arseneault
Infrastructure built in fire-prone wildland areas often has a high potential of being impacted by wildfire. Managers designing infrastructure in these areas, therefore, require assessments of wildfire...
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Ignacio Aguirre
Glynnis Hood
Cherie Westbrook
Beavers ( Castor canadensis and C. fiber) build dams that modify catchment and pond water balances, and it has been suggested that they can be a nature-based solution for reducing flood hydrographs...
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Lisa Venier
John Pedlar
Kellina Higgins
Kevin Lawrence
Russ Walton
Yan Boulanger
Daniel McKenney
Conserving large intact forest landscapes (IFLs) is one forest management strategy to mitigate industrial impacts on the environment. Measuring the IFL inventory at national scales has also been...
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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
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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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Craig DeMars
Greg Breed
Jonathan Potts
Stan Boutin
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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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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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...