Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
Resource
Stone fences and blinds built by prehistoric hunters to gather and ambush elk and bighorn sheep above timberline in the Colorado Front Range are similar in concept and function to structures built by...
Resource
Authors
Andrea Reid
Lauren Eckert
John-Francis Lane
Nathan Young
Scott Hinch
Chris Darimont
Steven Cooke
Natalie Ban
Albert Marshall
Increasingly, fisheries researchers and managers seek or are compelled to “bridge” Indigenous knowledge systems with Western scientific approaches to understanding and governing fisheries. Here, we...
Resource
Authors
Cheryl Bartlett
Murdena Marshall
Alberta Marshall
This is a process article for weaving indigenous and mainstream knowledges within science educational curricula and other science arenas, assuming participants include recognized holders of...
Resource
Authors
Brenda Parlee
John Sandlos
David Natcher
Resource Date:
February
2018
The paper describes a “tragedy of open access” occurring in Canada’s north as governments open up new areas of sensitive barren-ground caribou habitat to mineral resource development. A growing body of science and traditional knowledge research points to the adverse impacts of resource development; however, management efforts have been almost exclusively focused on controlling the subsistence harvest of northern Indigenous peoples.
Resource
Authors
Tracy McKay
Laura Finnegan
Forest harvesting causes habitat loss and alteration and can change predator– prey dynamics. In Canada, forest harvesting has shifted the distribution and abundance of ungulates (deer, elk and moose)...
Resource
Authors
Arnaud Benoit-Pepin
Mariano Feldman
Louis Imbeau
Osvaldo Valeria
In managed boreal forests, logging operations maintain high levels of anthropogenic disturbance in the ecosystem. The establishment of permanent anthropogenic linear features such as logging roads in...
Resource
Authors
Micheal Charlebois
Hans Skatter
John Kansas
Dwight Crouse
Woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) occur throughout Canada’s boreal forest and have been declining both in distribution and population size along the southern extent of their range...
Resource
The conservation community is increasingly focusing on the monitoring and evaluation of management, governance, ecological, and social considerations as part of a broader move toward adaptive...
Resource
Advocates of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) have promoted its use in scientific research, impact assessment, and ecological understanding. While several examples illustrate the utility of...
Resource
Authors
John Kansas
Micheal Charlebois
Hans Skatter
Low-Impact Seismic (LIS) exploration techniques are being increasingly used in northeastern Alberta, Canada to explore for in-situ oil sands deposits. These narrow (2-4-m wide), meandering man-made...
Resource
Authors
Archana Bali
Gary Kofinas
“Voices of the Caribou People” is a participatory videography project for documenting and sharing the local knowledge of caribou-user communities about social-ecological changes. The project was...
Resource
Authors
Erin Tattersall
Karine Pigeon
Doug MacNearney
Laura Finnegan
Habitat restoration is a necessary component of wildlife conservation in anthropogenic landscapes. To ensure restoration initiatives achieve the desired effects on wildlife communities, it is useful...
Resource
Authors
Jay Johnson
Richard Howitt
Gregory Cajete
Fikret Berkes
Renee Pualani Louis
Andrew Kliskey
Indigenous and sustainability sciences have much to offer one another regarding the identification of techniques and methods for sustaining resilient landscapes. Based upon the literature, and our...
Resource
Authors
Dominique Henri
Jennifer Provencher
Ella Bowles
Jessica Taylor
Jade Steel
Carmen Chelick
Jesse Popp
Steven Cooke
Trina Rytwinski
Deborah McGregor
Adam Ford
Steven Alexander
Human activities and development have contributed to declines in biodiversity across the globe. Understanding and addressing biodiversity loss will require the mobilization of diverse knowledge...
Resource
Authors
Jan Adamczewski
Anne Gunn
Kim Poole
Alex Hall
John Nishi
John Boulanger
The Beverly herd was one of the first large migratory herds of barren-ground caribou ( Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) defined in northern Canada on the basis of annual return of breeding females to...
Resource
Authors
Laura Finnegan
Mark Hebblewhite
Karine Pigeon
Linear features are pervasive across the boreal forest of Canada, negatively impacting several wildlife species. Understanding how wildlife responds to different types and characteristics of linear...
Resource
Authors
Kayla Buhler
Antonia Dibernardo
Nicholas Pilfold
Jane Harms
Heather Fenton
Suzanne Carriere
Allicia Kelly
Helen Schwantje
Xavier Fernandez Aguilar
Lisa-Marie Leclerc
Geraldine Gouin
Nicholas Lunn
Evan Richardson
David McGeachy
Émilie Bouchard
Adrián Hernández Ortiz
Gustaf Samelius
Robbin Lindsay
Michael Drebot
Patricia Gaffney
Patrick Leighton
Ray Alisauskas
Emily Jenkins
Northern Canada is warming at 3 times the global rate. Thus, changing diversity and distribution of vectors and pathogens is an increasing health concern. California serogroup (CSG) viruses are...
Resource
Authors
Tatiane Micheletti
Samuel Haché
Diana Stralberg
Frances Stewart
Alex Chubaty
Ceres Barros
Erin Bayne
Steven Cumming
Teegan Docherty
Amanda Dookie
Isabelle Duclos
Ian Eddy
Zuzu Gadallah
Claudia Haas
James Hodson
Mathieu Leblond
Steven Van Wilgenburg
Alana Westwood
Eliot McIntire
Conservation approaches that efficiently protect multiple values, such as the umbrella species concept, have been widely promoted with expected dramatic ecosystem changes. Due to its social and...