Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Camile Sothe
Alemu Gonsamo
Joyce Arabian
James Snider
Resource Date:
August
2021
Canada has extensive forests and peatlands that play key roles in global carbon cycle. Canadian soils and peatlands are assumed to store approximately 20% of the world’s soil carbon stock. However...
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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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Maria Immaculata Arifin
Antanas Staskevicius
Su Yeon Shim
Yuan-Hung Huang
Heather Fenton
Philip McLoughlin
Gordon Mitchell
Catherine Cullingham
Sabine Gilch
Resource Date:
August
2020
Here, we report the prevalence and distribution of R. tarandus prion protein polymorphisms obtained from 986 caribou samples from BC, Yukon, NT, Nunavut and Saskatchewan
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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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This guide assists applicants with their submissions to the 2 Billion Trees program, specifically the 2BT Tree Planting Application form. It provides guidance on the information that will be requested...
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This guide assists applicants with their submissions to the 2 Billion Trees program, specifically the Capacity Grant Application Form. It provides guidance on the information that will be requested in...
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Leah Levac
Lisa McMurtry
Deborah Stienstra
Gail Balkie
Cindy Hanson
Devi Mucina
Pressing socioeconomic, political, and ecological challenges demand new approaches to creating and acting on research. Finding new approaches to knowledge creation requires turning to previously...
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Annette Löf
Naomi Carriere
This study explores two Indigenous communities, one reindeer (Ran gifer tarandus tarandus) herding community in northern Sweden and a woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) hunting community in...
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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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Debra Hopkins
Tara Joly
Harvey Sykes
Almer Waniandy
John Grant
Lorrie Gallagher
Leonard Hansen
Kaitlyn Wall
Peter Fortna
Michelle Bailey
Fort McMurray Métis Elders and land users have observed a decrease in the population density of freshwater mussels (known locally as clams; Unionidae) in the lower Athabasca region (LAR) in recent...
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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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Tim Williamson
Steve Colombo
Peter Duinker
Paul Gray
Ryan Hennessey
Daniel Houle
Mark Johnston
Aynslie Ogden
Dave Spittlehouse
Climate change is already affecting Canada’s forests. Current visible effects include changes in the frequency and severity of disturbances (such as fires, drought, severe storms, and damaging insect...
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FPInnovations launched a multi-year study to determine whether a less-flammable, herbaceous species could replace the flammable grasses that typically colonize linear ROWs
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
This annual report offers a national snapshot of the social, economic and environmental status of forests and forestry in Canada. The theme of this edition is “Canada’s forests: adapting to change”...
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
In this 31st edition of The State of Canada’s Forests, the theme is Canada’s forests provide solutions to a changing world. The report highlights how the integrated social, environmental and economic...
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Authors
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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Authors
Galen Richardson
Sylvain Leblanc
Julie Lovitt
Krishan Rajaratnam
Wenjun Chen
Resource Date:
September
2021
Study shows that AI models trained on ground photographs effectively classify lichen in UAV orthomosaics.
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Authors
Lorna Harris
Tim Moore
Nigel Roulet
Andrew Pinsonneault
Resource Date:
March
2018
The fruticose lichens Cladina stellaris and Cladina rangiferina, form thick mats that can cover large areas of northern peatlands (above c. 50° latitude), including the extensive peatlands of the...
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Authors
Sharad Karmacharya
Marc Symbaluk
David Brand
S. Schwartz
The Luscar and Gregg River Mines Land Management Plan Working Group was formed to develop a land management plan. The process engaged stakeholders representing a variety of community interests