Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Tracy McKay
Laura Finnegan
Forest harvesting alters habitat, impacts wildlife, and disrupts ecosystem function. Across the boreal forest of Canada, forest harvesting affects ungulate prey species and their predators, with...
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Authors
Amir Behzad Bazrgar
Derek Sidders
Naresh Thevathasan
Afforestation systems as a pathway for natural climate solutions contributing to terrestrial C sequestration are influenced by agroclimatic conditions, tree species and clones. This study validated a...
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Cheryl Johnson
Ronnie Drever
Patrick Kirby
Erin Neave
Amanda Martin
Resource Date:
October
2022
Boreal caribou require large areas of undisturbed habitat for persistence. They are listed as threatened with the risk of extinction in Canada because of landscape changes induced by human activities...
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James Maltman
Nicholas Coops
Gregory Rickbeil
Txomin Hermosilla
Cole Burton
Habitat disturbance is a major driver of the decline of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in Canada. Different disturbance agents and regimes negatively impact caribou populations to...
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Fikret Berkes
Johan Colding
Carl Folke
Indigenous groups offer alternative knowledge and perspectives based on their own locally developed practices of resource use. We surveyed the international literature to focus on the role of...
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This 2012 publication is adapted from remarks by Yellowknives Dene hunter Fred Sangris. He covers many subjects including the relationship of Dene to the caribou, traditional laws governing relations...
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Terry Callaghan
Lars Olof Björn
Yuri Chernov
Terry Chapin
Torben Christensen
Brian Huntley
Rolf Ims
Margareta Johansson
Dyanna Jolly
Sven Jonasson
Nadya Matveyeva
Nicolai Panikov
Walter Oechel
Gus Shaver
Josef Elster
Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir
Kari Laine
Kari Taulavuori
Erja Taulavuori
Christoph Zöckler
Environmental manipulation experiments showed that species respond individualistically to each environmental-change variable. The greatest responses of plants were generally to nutrient, particularly...
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Denys Yemshanov
Mackenzie Simpson
Ning Liu
Aaron Petty
Frank Koch
Eric Neilson
Cynthia Chand
George Duffy
Vita Hoyles
Chris Mallon
Abstract In western Canada, decades of oil-and-gas exploration have fragmented boreal landscapes with a dense network of linear forest disturbances (seismic lines). These seismic lines are implicated...
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Mathieu Leblond
Tyler Rudolph
Dominic Boisjoly
Christian Dussault
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
Protected areas are needed to conserve nature and biodiversity worldwide. The province of Québec (Canada) recently established a large wilderness area affording significant habitat protection for...
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Authors
Frank Miller
Samuel Barry
Wendy Calvert
The islands of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago lie immediately north of mainland North America in the Arctic Ocean. They are surrounded by ice for most of each year. Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) cross...
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Jessica Theoret
Maria Cavedon
Troy Hegel
Dave Hervieux
Helen Schwantje
Robin Steenweg
Megan Watters
Marco Musiani
We aimed at assessing seasonal movement behaviours, including migratory, resident, dispersing, and nomadic, for caribou belonging to the Barren-ground and Woodland subspecies and ecotypes. Our unexpected findings of marked seasonal movement plasticity in caribou indicate that this phenomenon should be better studied to understand the resilience of this endangered species to habitat and climatic changes. Our results that a substantial proportion of individuals engaged in seasonal migration in all studied ecotypes indicate that caribou conservation plans should account for critical habitat in both summer and winter ranges.
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Jacquelyn Saturno
Matthew Boeckner
Samuel Haché
James Hodson
Emily McAuley
Eliot McIntire
Tatiane Micheletti
Jean Polfus
Sophie Sliwa
Trevor Teed
Alana Westwood
Abstract In recent years, researchers have increasingly recognized the need to bridge Western and Indigenous knowledge systems to strengthen research in wildlife conservation. Historically, this arena...
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Marie-Jeanne Royer
Thora Martina Herrmann
Socioenvironmental changes in Canada’s northern regions are likely to have wide-ranging implications for the health of its residents. Aboriginal communities are among the first to face the direct...
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John Virgl
James Rettie
Daniel Coulton
From 1996 to 2015 the Bathurst caribou herd has declined from approximately 349,000 to 20,000 animals. Aboriginal traditional knowledge (TK) has recently observed the later arrival of the herd below...
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Kristin Denryter
Rachel Cook
John Cook
Katherine Parker
Michael Gillingham
Resource Date:
March
2020
A 14-page academic paper that examines the connection between the physiological state of caribou and how they feed. The paper says, "Foraging time by caribou was partially state-dependent...
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Amanda Koltz
David Civitello
Daniel Becker
Sharon Deem
Aimée Classen
Brandon Barton
Maris Brenn-White
Zoë Johnson
Susan Kutz
Matthew Malishev
Parasitic infections are common, but how they shape ecosystem-level processes is understudied. Using a mathematical model and meta-analysis, we explored the potential for helminth parasites to trigger...
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Authors
Heather Johnson
Elizabeth Lenart
David Gustine
Layne Adams
Perry Barboza
Resource Date:
September
2022
Investigators have speculated that the climate-driven “greening of the Arctic” may benefit barren-ground caribou populations, but paradoxically many populations have declined in recent years. This...
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Authors
Nelson Thiffault
Patricia Raymond
Jean-Martin Lussier
Isabelle Aubin
Samuel Royer-Tardif
Anthony D’Amato
Frédérik Doyon
Benoit Lafleur
Martin Perron
Jean Bousquet
Nathalie Isabel
Sylvie Carles
Patrick Lupien
Annie Malenfant
As part of the Carrefour Forêts 2019 Conference, the forest research branch of Quebec’s Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs and the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre of Natural Resources Canada...
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Eliezer Gurarie
Mark Hebblewhite
Kyle Joly
Allicia Kelly
Jan Adamczewski
Sarah Davidson
Tracy Davison
Anne Gunn
Michael Suitor
William Fagan
Natalie Boelman
Resource Date:
December
2019
A 2019 academic paper that looks at factors affecting caribou migration timing and speed. The paper concludes that later arrival at calving grounds might indicate that females are in worse condition...
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Authors
Yan Boulanger
Dominique Arseneault
Annie Claude Bélisle
Yves Bergeron
Jonathan Boucher
Yan Boucher
Victor Danneyrolles
Sandy Erni
Philippe Gachon
Martin P. Girardin
Eliane Grant
Pierre Grondin
Jean-Pierre Jetté
Guillemette Labadie
Mathieu Leblond
Alain Leduc
Jesus Pascual Puigdevall
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
Junior A. Tremblay
Kaysandra Waldron
Abstract The 2023 wildfire season in Québec set records due to extreme warm and dry conditions, burning 4.5 million hectares and indicating persistent and escalating impacts associated with climate...