Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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This paper argues that Sámi reindeer pastoralism in Sweden is highly stressed during the critical snow cover periods due to large-scale human interventions, especially forestry, and that these have...
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Karine Pigeon
Doug MacNearney
Mark Hebblewhite
Lori Neufeld
Jerome Cranston
Gordon Stenhouse
Fiona Schmiegelow
Laura Finnegan
Anthropogenic linear features facilitate access and travel efficiency for predators, and can influence predator distribution and encounter rates with prey. We used GPS collar data from eight wolf...
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The Development and Reclamation Review process, as it currently operates, is presented and discussed with the aid of a flow chart. Suggestions are made to improve and expedite the process with...
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Eric Neilson
C. Castillo-Ayala
Justin Beckers
Cheryl-Ann Johnson
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
Nicolas Mansuy
Allicia Kelly
Marc-André Parisien
Effective species conservation efforts require insight into whether a species’ extent of occurrence may shift due to changing climate, habitat loss, or both. The extent of occurrence of the threatened...
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The study's purpose is to assess the nutrient self-sufficiency of five-year-old reclaimed areas in montane and subalpine environments. Adjacent, undisturbed native grasslands were also studied for...
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Philippe Tanguay
Richard Hamelin
In the era of molecular biology, DNA barcoding is being used to fill gaps in taxonomy and confirm findings obtained through traditional approaches based on morphological differences between species...
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Boreal Ecosystem Recovery and Assessment
The 2024 issue of The Edge summarizes the following key findings: Plan A better understanding of passive recovery trajectories will help guide restoration planning LiDAR is a powerful planning tool...
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Richard Johnson
Peter Bork
Paul Layte
Oil sands processing operations in northeastern Alberta generate 25 x 106 m3 of water-fines mixtures (sludge) per year. The fines settle in several weeks but will not consolidate to more than 35%...
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Alexander Prichard
Joseph Welch
Brian Lawhead
Resource Date:
March
2022
Academic journal article on the effects of traffic and infrastructure on the behaviour of calving caribou in Alaska.
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Adam Fort
Michael Noonan
K. Bollefer
R. Gill
C. Legebokow
Robert Serrouya
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L.M. McKinnon
A.K. Mitchell
A. Vyse
In forestry, the purpose of site preparation is to ameliorate environmental conditions which limit tree seedling survival and growth. In subalpine and boreal forests, low soil temperature in...
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Northern caribou depend on terrestrial lichens as a primary source of food during winter. This paper illustrates how changes in harvesting intensity affect terrestrial lichen abundance, species...
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Reclamation practice is a function of public will expressed through either company policy or regulatory requirement and technical capability. Many of the contradictions and conflicts which appear in...
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Don Thacker
Richard Johnson
Cone penetration resistence as a measure of compaction was used to evaluate minespoils from the Luscar geological formation of the Alberta Rocky Mountain Foothills across the plant available moisture...
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N. Kingsbury
A. Lewis-Gibbs
(Fast Tests for Rating and Amelioration of Conifer) – A collaboration among CWFC researchers, academia, government and industry transforms traditional tree breeding programs by improving genetic...
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Ten years after restoration was implemented at the Bois-des-Bel peatland (BdB) in Quebec, there was limited hydrological connectivity between the regenerated Sphagnum moss and the remnant cutover peat...
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Reviews what is currently known of fish ecology and production of the Athabasca Basin, and includes discussions of fish production, sport and commercial use of fish populations
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There is a presumption that the primary goal of creating alternative resource management systems is to increase the efficiency of the management decisions made. However, changing the rules of resource...
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Authors
Gunnar Jansson
Jon Kehlet Hansen
Matti Haapanen
Harald Kvaalen
Arne Steffenrem
Resource Date:
October
2016
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Ryan Cannon
William Quinton
James Craig
J. Hanisch
Oliver Sonnentag
In the zone of discontinuous permafrost, the cycling and storage of water within and between wetlands is poorly understood. The presence of intermittent permafrost bodies tends to impede and re-direct...