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The NWT’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) is taking new steps to protect the territory’s threatened boreal caribou population with the implementation of its first Interim Boreal...
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Miranda Hunter
Rebecca Frei
Ian Strachan
Maria Strack
The installation of drainage ditches and removal of vegetation in preparation for vacuum harvesting alters the carbon dynamics of peatlands. However, we lack the measurements to understand the spatial...
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Authors
John Boulanger
Jan Adamczewski
Tracy Davison
We analyzed 20 data sets from post-calving surveys in the NWT and NU carried out between 2000 and 2015 using the Rivest estimator. We provide a set of working recommendations to optimize field sampling to ensure reliable estimates of herd size using post-calving methods.
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Invasions by alien organisms into new habitats pose one of the most significant global threats to ecosystem biodiversity and serious threats to economies around the globe. Canada, with its vast...
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Authors
Melanie Dickie
Geoff Sherman
Glenn Sutherland
Robert McNay
Michael Cody
Resource Date:
September
2022
In the paper 'Evaluating the impact of caribou habitat restoration on predator and prey movement', the authors evaluated movement responses of wolves, black bears, caribou, and moose on seismic lines...
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Chris Stockdale
Quinn Barber
Amit Saxena
Marc-Andre Parisien
Resource Date:
March
2019
We undertook a wildfire risk assessment across the Cold Lake caribou range where we used the Burn-P3 model to determine: a) burn probability; b) wildfire risk to restored seismic line areas; and c) the effectiveness of mitigation measures. The burn probability of the landscape was highly heterogeneous, and recent large burns and some waterbodies provided “shields” that reduced burn probability on their leeward sides.
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In this year we analyzed the study landscape using GIS, reclassified AVI data into deer habitat categories, and created the experimental design for sampling deer occupancy using remote cameras. We...
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Robert Hayes
Richard Farnell
Richard Ward
Jean Carey
Michael Dehn
Gerald Kuzyk
Alan Baer
Craig Gardner
Mark O'Donoghue
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Brad Seely
John Nelson
Pierre Vernier
Ralph Wells
Arnold Moy
The primary response to the present mountain pine beetle (MPB) epidemic has focused on salvaging beetle-killed wood while it remains economically viable, and developing methods for reducing the spread...
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Alexandre Lafontaine
Pierre Drapeau
Daniel Fortin
Sylvie Gauthier
Yan Boulanger
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
Studying the response of wildlife to anthropogenic disturbances in light of their evolutionary history may help explain their capacity to adapt to novel ecological conditions. In the North American...
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Rosemary-Claire Collard
Jessica Dempsey
Mollie Holmberg
Many caribou populations in Canada face extirpation despite dozens of provincial and federal legislative instruments designed to protect them. How are industrial developments that impact caribou...
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Authors
Ryan Fisher
Troy Wellicome
Erin Bayne
Ray Poulin
Danielle Todd
Adam Ford
Frequency and intensity of extreme weather has increased against a backdrop of anthropogenic land change. Extreme rainfall during the breeding season reduced reproductive success of burrowing owls.
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A 2015 three-page fact sheet on Peary caribou produced by the Canadian government. This resource and others can be found on the Northern Caribou Canada website. To find more related resources click...
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Melanie Dickie
Robert Serrouya
Scott McNay
Stan Boutin
Predation by grey wolves Canis lupus has been identified as an important cause of boreal woodland caribou Rangifer tarandus caribou mortality, and it has been hypothesized that wolf use of human...
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The GNWT has developed guidelines(External link) for companies carrying out exploration and development activities to ensure they have the information and tools to plan and execute their projects in a...
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Authors
Alice Noble
Alistair Crowle
David Glaves
Sheila Palmer
Joseph Holden
Resource Date:
August
2019
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The FMWSI is a partnership between Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC), Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc., Canfor, the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC), Millar Western Forest Products Ltd...
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Frost and other climate-related damage of forest trees in the Canadian prairie provinces are described in terms of their cause and damage, symptoms and diagnosis, and prevention and control. Types of...
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Claudia Méndez-Espinoza
Geneviève Parent
Patrick Lenz
André Rainville
Laurence Tremblay
Greg Adams
Andrew McCartney
Éric Bauce
John MacKay
The spruce budworm (SBW) is a forest insect pest that causes damage to boreal trees in North America. Resistance against SBW in white spruce had previously been linked to the content of specific...
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United Nations Environment Programme
Resource Date:
November
2022
Peatlands are unique and rare ecosystems that, despite only covering around 3-4% of the planet’s land surface, they contain up to one-third of the world’s soil carbon, which is twice the amount of...