Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Graham Powell
Tannis Beardmore
The New Brunswick Gene Conservation Working Group was formed in 1997. The goal of the group is to develop gene conservation strategies for native New Brunswick trees and shrubs. The first step in...
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Authors
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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Authors
Clara Superbie
Kathrine Stewart
Charlotte Regan
Jill Johnstone
Philip McLoughlin
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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Northern River Basins Human Health Monitoring Program Management Committee
Three part report: 1. Summary of ecological findings from the NRBS; 2. Summary of the Health Program; and 3. Recommendations for further studies in the Northern River Basins
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Examines differences in health outcomes across the province and compares the Northern River Basin Study area with the other areas of the province and examines possible relationships between health out
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This project describes a new method for sampling secondary structure in beetle-attacked pine stands and reports on a test of its accuracy. The method consists of interpreting aerial photos taken when...
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Resource Date:
September
2017
Rapid landscape alteration associated with human activity is currently challenging the evolved dynamical stability of many predator–prey systems by forcing species to behaviourally respond to novel...
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Authors
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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Authors
Eddy Carmack
Peter Killworth
Emphasis is placed on processes influencing temporal and spatial patterns in circulation, stratification and saline water distributions. Owing to its density, the high salinity effluent tends to sink
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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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Mariano Feldman
Marc Mazerolle
Louis Imbeau
Nicole Fenton
As resource extraction moves north across the globe, wetland ecosystems in Canada are increasingly degraded because of disturbances associated with anthropic activities, including timber harvesting...
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Oil sand overburden materials within Syncrude Lease No. 17 were sampled and analyzed with the intent of isolating mineral materials overlying lean oil sand which may be useful in reclamation
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Erin Kelly
Jeffrey Short
David Schindler
Barbra Fortin
For over a decade, the contribution of oil sands mining and processing to the pollution of the Athabasca River has been controversial. We show that the oil sands development is a greater source of...
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Keith Jones
David Forrest
While the Challenge Paper intended to focus on a few key aspects of the reclamation challenge for mining in the oil sands area, it ended up provoking a wide range of reactions
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Techman Ltd.
Rheinbraun - Consulting GmbH
Provides comprehensive review of the technical problems facing future oil sands developments and suggests options helpful in formulating oil sands mining, tailings disposal and reclamation plans
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Techman Ltd.
Rheinbraun - Consulting GmbH
A total of sixty-eight drawings show the mining, tailings disposal and reclamation of the twelve mine designs developed in the study (see Volume 1).
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Techman Ltd.
Rheinbraun - Consulting GmbH
Yearly cost summaries for the 12 mine plans analyzed in the study (Volume 1) for 35 years. Activities in each mine are grouped into 6 cost centres, which are further divided into cost sub-centres.
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Remediation professionals, regulators, industry and stakeholders must begin discussions to resolve uncertainty around oil sands COPCs so that efforts can be focused on solving the “real” problem
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Oil Sands Research and Information Network
138 potential oil sands challenges, categorized based on a set of criteria and solutions to the most pressing ones. About 84% of the challenges identified were expected to occur in the next 5 years
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Authors
Richard Johnson
P. Bork
E.A.D. Allen
W.H. James
L. Koverny
The experiments detailed in this report show that it was possible to increase the solids content of sludge to 50% solids by adding three parts sand (tailings sand) to one part sludge.