Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Eric Palm
Mike Suitor
Kyle Joly
Jim Herriges
Allicia Kelly
Dave Hervieux
Kelsey Russell
Torsten Bentzen
Nic Larter
Mark Hebblewhite
More frequent and severe fires are creating winter habitat loss for caribou. Caribou avoid burn areas in winter.
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Climate change is expected to increasingly impact populations of woodland caribou and much focus has been placed on how a warming climate has facilitated the northward expansion of apparent...
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Density dependence is a key population ecology parameter that can influence variation in life-history, morphology, and behaviour. Caribou population density is known to fluctuate through space and...
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Michael Merchant
Lyle Boychuk
The Government of Alberta’s current wetland inventory is a publicly available, generalized dataset collated from the best available spatial wetland data across the province. The Alberta Merged Wetland...
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Knowledge gaps concerning how various human activities combine to impact freshwater ecosystems can result in reported damaging “ecological surprises.” Although ecological surprises are typically...
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Clayton Lamb
Sara Williams
Stan Boutin
Michael Bridger
Deborah Cichowski
Kristina Cornhill
Craig DeMars
Melanie Dickie
Bevan Ernst
Adam Ford
Michael Gillingham
Laura Greene
Douglas Heard
Mark Hebblewhite
Dave Hervieux
Mike Klaczek
Bruce McLellan
Scott McNay
Lalenia Neufeld
Barry Nobert
Joshua Nowak
Agnes Pelletier
Caroline Seip
Carolyn Shores
Robin Steenweg
Shane White
Heiko Wittmer
Mark Wong
Kathryn Zimmerman
Robert Serrouya
Habitat loss is affecting many species, including the southern mountain caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) population in western North America. Over the last half century, this threatened caribou...
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Whitebark pine and limber pine are unique, slow-growing tree species found in Alberta’s mountains and foothills. Populations are rapidly declining, due to several threats, from invasive disease to...
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Jason Leach
Danielle Hudson
Jason Leach and Danielle Hudson present a lecture to the Canadian Institute of Forestry on the influence of tree planting on floods / droughts. In this talk, the speakers explore how afforestation and...
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Climate-induced northern forest change may be severe, altering resources for boreal caribou. Mitigating the conservation challenges associated with caribou could be dampened through forecasts of...
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Isabelle Aubin presents a lecture to the Canadian Institute of Forestry on fostering co-benefits when planting trees using PlantR. PlantR is an interactive tool that can be used to restore multiple...
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In the firth episode of ABMI's bi-weekly webinar series called 'Our Nature to Know', Melanie Dickie presents ABMI's Future Directions on Caribou Monitoring and Conservation. In this presentation...
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Melanie Dickie
Robert Serrouya
Marcus Becker
Craig DeMars
Michael Noonan
Robin Steenweg
Stan Boutin
Adam Ford
Anthropogenic habitat alteration and climate change are two well-known contributors to biodiversity loss through changes to species distribution and abundance; yet, disentangling the effects of these...
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Using a telemetry location dataset spanning 1981 – 2018, we tested for changes in prevalence of migratory tactics (resident, migrant) over time, switching between tactics, shifts in seasonal space-use...
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Presented by Kimberly Kleinke from the University of Waterloo The boreal forest of western Canada is fragmented by seismic lines created for oil and gas exploration. These linear disturbances have...
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Environmental and biological sciences are often siloed from examining Indigenous-related concerns, which can compromise Indigenous rights. Learning about braiding Indigenous ways of knowing and...
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Indigenous Peoples around the northern hemisphere have long relied on caribou for subsistence, ceremonial, and community purposes. Unfortunately, caribou are currently in decline in many areas across...
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Resource Date:
October
2020
iWETLAND: Managing Species at Risk Habitat through Wetland Water Level Citizen Science Presented by Taylor North and the McMaster Ecohydrology Lab iWetland is a citizen science wetland water level...
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In this episode of our webinar series, lichenologist Diane Haughland discusses the awesomeness of lichens, the ABMI's lichen research, and why collecting data on lichens in the province is important...
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Kyle Lochhead
Elizabeth Kleynhans
Tyler Muhly
The decline of many woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) populations is thought to be linked with habitat disturbances resulting from industrial development, including timber harvesting and...
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River construction is a common practice in built environments near rivers, such as cities, pipeline or highway crossings, or other structures within river channels. These activities will disturb fine...