Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Dominique Boucher
Sylvie Gauthier
Nelson Thiffault
William Marchand
Martin Girardin
Climate change is projected to increase fire severity and frequency in the boreal forest, but it could also directly affect post-fire recruitment processes by impacting seed production, germination...
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This infographic by Heather Hinam describes the Caribou Conservation through Better Cutblock Design project by the Caribou Program run by fRI Research. The background, methods, and potential uses for...
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Each year, the Canadian Forest Service (CFS) provides estimates of the amount of carbon in our managed forests and the changes in these amounts over time. Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)...
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Hannah McKenzie
Evelyn Merrill
Raymond Spiteri
Mark Lewis
In areas of oil and gas exploration, seismic lines have been reported to alter the movement patterns of wolves (Canis lupus). We developed a mechanistic first passage time model, based on an...
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Sabrina Plante
Christian Dussault
Julien Richard
Steeve Côté
Resource Date:
August
2018
A 2018 academic paper to assess the effects of human disturbance on barren-ground caribou herds. This study focuses on the Leaf River and George River herds in northern Quebec and Labrador. The paper...
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Chao Zhang
Yumei Li
Xiaoyu Hu
Xiaofan Ma
Wei Jia
Kai Liu
Yonggang Nie
Abstract Aim: Understanding changes in the behaviour of threatened species responding to rapidly increasing human disturbances is critical for biodiversity conservation. Here, we synthesize a meta...
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Hanna Blåheda
Miguel San Sebastián
In 2006, a British mining company started the process of extracting ore from Gállok/Kallak, in Swedish Sápmi. These grounds are used all year round for reindeer herding by the Sámi community...
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Consortium National du Savoir sur the Caribou Boréal
Resource Date:
April
2021
La fiche d'information sur l'Imagerie Aérienne est une communication rapide de type infographique couvrant les éléments essentiels de la méthode de suivi d'imagerie aérienne pour le caribou boréal...
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Global warming may cause photosynthesis to start earlier. As the climate warms, spring arrives earlier and fall ends later. This change in temperature affects how trees grow. Gretta Goodine of the...
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Chloé Martineau
Alexandre Langlois
Isabelle Gouttevin
Erin Neave
Cheryl Johnson
In this article, the researchers 1) investigate whether a snow model adapted for the Antarctic (SNOWPACK) can produce snow simulations relevant to Canadian High Arctic conditions, and 2) test snow...
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Jonas Mortelmans
Anne Felsberg
Gabriëlle De Lannoy
Sander Veraverbeke
Robert Field
Niels Andela
Michel Bechtold
The Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) system, even though originally developed and calibrated for an upland Jack pine forest, is used globally to estimate fire danger for any fire environment. However...
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Gerald Racey
Al Arsenault
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April
2006
A hierarchical approach to critical habitat identification has been proposed in the draft National Recovery Strategy for the Woodland Caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou), Boreal Population. This...
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Melanie Dickie
Nicola Love
Robin Steenweg
Clayton Lamb
Jean Polfus
Adam Ford
Abstract Effective species management relies on evidence-based goals that address the processes influencing population demography. These goals therefore require understanding how stressors affect the...
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Natalie Ban
Alejandro Frid
Mike Reid
Barry Edgar
Danielle Shaw
Peter Siwallace
Indigenous knowledge and ecological science have complementary differences that can be fruitfully combined to better understand the past and predict the future of social-ecological systems...
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Craig DeMars
Chris Johnson
Melanie Dickie
Thomas Habib
Michael Cody
Amit Saxena
Stan Boutin
Robert Serrouya
Conservation strategies for imperiled species are frequently based on identifying and addressing the probable causes of population decline, an approach known as the declining population paradigm...
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Lucas Deschamps
Vincent Maire
Lin Chen
Daniel Fortier
Gilles Gauthier
Amélie Morneault
Elisabeth Hardy-Lachance
Isabelle Dalcher- Gosselin
François Tanguay
Charles Gignac
Jeffrey McKenzie
Line Rochefort
Esther Lévesque
Resource Date:
November
2022
1. It is of prime importance to understand feedbacks due to the release of carbon (C) stored in permafrost soils (permafrost-climate feedback) and direct impacts of climatic variations on permafrost...
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Canadian Conservation and Land Management Knowledge Network
View this infographic to learn more about how an open source model using artificial intelligence is contributing to significant time and cost savings in identifying and classifying camera trap data.
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Mateen Hessami
Ella Bowles
Jesse Popp
Adam Ford
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August
2021
This article identifies the gaps and linkages between the North American Model of wildlife conservation and Indigenous-led conservation efforts across Canada. Although a diversity of approaches to...
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Lisa Loseto
K. Breton-Honeyman
D.N. Etiendem
N. Johnson
T. Pearce
J. Allen
A. Amos
J. Arqviq
J.E. Baak
É. Bélanger
M.P.T. Bourdages
J.R. Brammer
D. Fawcett
J. Gérin-Lajoie
G. Gilbert
K. Hansen-Craik
E. Loring
A. Perrin
M. Slavitch
Abstract This communication paper reflects on discussions from a workshop about Indigenous involvement in the peer review and editorial processes. Arctic-based research is undergoing a paradigm shift...
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Justine Townsend
Faisal Moola
Mary-Kate Craig
Resource Date:
November
2020
Nature-based solutions (NbS) to climate change mitigation—such as ecosystem protection or conservation, improved forest management practices, as well as afforestation—can significantly reduce global...