Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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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
Pierre Desrochers
Danny Rioux
The continuing spread of butternut canker constitutes the greatest threat to the survival of butternut trees, which have been protected under the Species at Risk Act since 2005. Furthermore, growing...
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Nunavut Impact Review Board
Resource Date:
December
2017
A 61-page 2017 document from the Nunavut Impact Review Board detailing the terms and conditions for approval of the Sabina Gold and Silver Corp’s Back River gold-mining project. The terms and...
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Abstract Sharing stories in Inuit culture has been the foundation of knowledge transfer for generations. This is my story of learning, of research, learning through relationships, and learning from...
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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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Nunavut Wildlife Management Board
This 2015 workshop report from the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board is on finding a balance between resource development and caribou in Nunavut. The report includes detailed information on the...
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Gwich’in Renewable Resources Board
Sahtú Renewable Resources Board
Government of Northwest Territories
This 11 page document is the agreement by the NWT management authorities responsible for the northern population of mountain caribou (woodland caribou in northern mountain habitat) to add the caribou...
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NWT Species at Risk Committee
A document explaining the new Species at Risk assessment process adopted by the Northwest Territories Species at Risk Committee. The committee has adopted new rules that explain how inputs from...
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V. Fewster
Chris MacQuarrie
Jeffrey Fidgen
Oak wilt is a tree disease caused by the fungus Bretziella fagacearum. The fungus is widespread throughout the eastern United States and, as of 2021, found within 600 m of the Canadian border near...
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Mathieu Dumond
Shane Sather
Rob Harmer
The seasonal migration of the Dolphin and Union caribou ( Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) herd between Victoria Island and the mainland (Nunavut/Northwest Territories, Canada) relies on the formation...
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National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium
Le compte rendu détaillé sur Observations des membres de collectivités locales et de chasseurs comprend une introduction de chapitre traitant des forces, faiblesses et considérations communes des...
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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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Wildlife conservation and management are in a state of crisis. On the basis of nearly 50 years as a field wildlife biologist, researcher and manager, I identify issues that impact on wildlife. These...
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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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Hans Boerger
Mike MacKinnon
Bill Hunter
The Clark hot water process currently used for extracting bitumen from the Athabasca oil sands results in large volumes of clay fines containing small amounts of residual bitumen. One possible way of...
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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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Commercial production of synthetic crude oil from the Athabasca Oil Sands began in 1967 in north-eastern Alberta. Suncor Inc., then known as Great Canadian Oil Sands Ltd., began the development of...