Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Amanda Martin
Erin Neave
Patrick Kirby
Ronnie Drever
Cheryl Johnson
The biodiversity and climate change crises have led countries—including Canada—to commit to protect more land and inland waters and to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations. Canada is also obligated...
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Wildlife Management Advisory Council (North Slope)
A 2018 2-page fact sheet on competition between muskoxen and caribou, focused mostly on the Porcupine herd range. It concludes that, “...the two species are not likely to compete with each other for...
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This infographic is an introduction to My Tree, a free app developed by the Canadian Forest Service (CFS) that can assist you in selecting the right trees to plant for your location. You can download...
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Millicent Gaston
Andrew Barnas
Rebecca Smith
Sean Murray
Jason Fisher
Many large carnivores, despite widespread habitat alteration, are rebounding in parts of their former ranges after decades of persecution and exploitation. Cougars (Puma concolor) are apex predator...
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Ronnie Drever
Susan Cook-Patton
Fardausi Akhter
Pascal Badiou
Gail Chmura
Scott Davidson
Raymond Desjardins
Andrew Dyk
Joseph Fargione
Max Fellows
Ben Filewood
Margot Hessing-Lewis
Susantha Jayasundara
William Keeton
Timm Kroeger
Tyler Lark
Edward Le
Sara Leavitt
Marie-Eve LeClerc
Tony Lemprière
Juha Metsaranta
Brian McConkey
Eric Nielson
Guillaume Peterson St-Laurent
Danijela Puric-Mladenovic
Sebastien Rodrigue
Raju Soolanayakanahally
Seth Spawn
Maria Strack
Carolyn Smyth
Naresh Thevathasan
Mihai Voicu
Christopher Williams
Peter Woodbury
Devon Worth
Zhen Xu
Samantha Yeo
Werner Kurz
Alongside the steep reductions needed in fossil fuel emissions, natural climate solutions (NCS) represent readily deployable options that can contribute to Canada’s goals for emission reductions. We...
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Amey Tilak
Seamus Hoyne
Nicholas Kettridge
Northern peatlands faced compounding disturbances that transformed such critical ecosystems from long-term carbon sinks into carbon sources. Considerable investment is therefore directed for restoring...
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Steve Wilson
Wendy Crosina
Elston Dzus
Dave Hervieux
Philip McLoughlin
Laura Trout
Thomas Nudds
Resource Date:
November
2022
Delineating relevant local populations of widely distributed species is a common challenge in conservation ecology. Caribou and reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus) are in general decline throughout their...
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Steven Wagers
Guillermo Castilla
Mihai Voicu
Tyler Rea
Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa
Black spruce is the most common tree species in Canada, dominating treed peatlands where they are usually stunted. We used 495 destructively sampled trees from 56 plots to develop allometric models of...
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Lee Harding
Mathieu Bourbonnais
Andrew Cook
Toby Spribille
Viktoria Wagner
Chris Darimont
Abstract Mountain caribou, a behaviourally and genetically distinct set of ecotypes of the Woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) restricted to the mountains of western Canada, have undergone...
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Hannah Correia
Torkild Tveraa
Audun Stien
Nigel Yoccoz
Global temperatures are increasing, affecting timing and availability of vegetation along with relationships between plants and their consumers. We examined the effect of population density, herd body...
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Ressources naturelles Canada
This note explores lesson from EMEND that can inform reclamation approaches that embrace variation, as opposed to a one-size-fits-all approach.
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Teri Jones
Micheline Manseau
Brandon Merriell
Gigi Pitoello
Dave Hervieux
Paul Wilson
Resource Date:
November
2023
Abstract Understanding how individuals within populations are connected genetically and through shared space-use is critical to understanding the demographic patterns of at-risk populations. In recent...
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Pierre Desrochers
Danny Rioux
The continuing spread of butternut canker constitutes the greatest threat to the survival of butternut trees, which have been protected under the Species at Risk Act since 2005. Furthermore, growing...
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Katherine Parker
Perry Barboza
Michael Gillingham
Resource Date:
January
2009
1. Nutrition influences most aspects of animal ecology: juvenile growth rates and adult mass gain, body condition, probability of pregnancy, over-winter survival, timing of parturition, and neonatal...
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V. Fewster
Chris MacQuarrie
Jeffrey Fidgen
Oak wilt is a tree disease caused by the fungus Bretziella fagacearum. The fungus is widespread throughout the eastern United States and, as of 2021, found within 600 m of the Canadian border near...
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Mathieu Dumond
Shane Sather
Rob Harmer
The seasonal migration of the Dolphin and Union caribou ( Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) herd between Victoria Island and the mainland (Nunavut/Northwest Territories, Canada) relies on the formation...
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The ability of many species to adapt to the shifting environmental conditions associated with climate change will be a key determinant of their persistence in the coming decades. This is a challenge...
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
This pamphlet is about old-growth forests in Canada. It includes a map that shows the Forest Regions of Canada and provides examples of different old-growth forest types in some of these regions.
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Jeffrey Speller
Véronique Forbes
Resource Date:
March
2022
This article explores uses of peat bogs and associated plants and other resources by drawing on the published ethnobotanical and archeological literature pertaining to Indigenous groups that lived and...
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Guillaume Moreau
Catherine Chagnon
Alexis Achim
John Caspersen
Loïc D’Orangeville
Martina Sánchez-Pinillos
Nelson Thiffault
We reviewed recent literature to identify the positive and negative effects of thinning on both stand- and treelevel resistance and resilience to four stressors that are expected to increase in...