Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Surya Acharya
R.N. Coleman
M.E. Neuwirth
Michelle Dalpe
Soil samples from the rhizosphere of Poa alpina and Trisetum spicatum collected on Lookout Mountain, Banff National Park, Alberta contained at least 10 times more bacteria than the soil 3 cm away. The...
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Sophie Wilkinson
Raymond Andersen
Paul Moore
Scott Davidson
Gustaf Granath
Mike Waddington
Resource Date:
April
2023
The northern peatland carbon sink plays a vital role in climate regulation; however, the future of the carbon sink is uncertain, in part, due to the changing interactions of peatlands and wildfire...
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Chris Stockdale
Quinn Barber
Marc-André Parisien
Resource Date:
April
2018
The boreal forests of Alberta have dense networks of seismic exploration lines which have been shown to contribute significantly to the decline in woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou)...
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Jeffrey Green
Alan Nilson
To compensate for losses of wildlife habitat associated with the construction and operation of the Oldman River dam in southern Alberta, an extensive wildlife habitat mitigation program has been...
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AXYS Environmental Consulting Ltd.
Report provides a summary of wildlife habitat information for oil sands reclamation
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Jeffrey Green
Richard Salter
David Walker
Consolidate information on known methods of reclaiming wildlife habitat in the mountain and foothills biomes and to develop methods of assessing reclamation success for certification
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Virgil Hawkes
Travis Gerwing
Degree of similarity suggests that comparable ecological functionality is possible, increasing probability that oil sands operators will fulfill their regulatory requirement reclaim wildlife habitat
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Melanie Bird
Bin Xu
Jeannine Goehing
Catherine Brown
Thick wood chips on a temporary access road through a peatland provided a unique operational opportunity to test an adaption of the peat inversion process. The thick layer of wood chips prevented...
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The objectives of the study are to provide recommendations on the most suitable methods for establishing and maintaining self-sustaining and productive plant communities in the Alberta tar sands area
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Jessica Anne Bryzek
Walter Veselka IV
Christopher Rota
James Anderson
Successful wetland restoration depends on the development of the vegetation community post-restoration. Woody vegetation provides functional and structural support to the wetland ecosystem and...
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Milo Mihajlovich
Pat Wearmouth
An effective, reliable and relatively inexpensive means to achieve the Alberta 2010 Reclamation Criteria for Wellsites and Associated Facilities in Forested Lands requirements is to plant seedlings...