Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Ville Vasko
Simon Gaultier
Anna Blomberg
Thomas Lilley
Kai Norrdahl
Jon Brommer
Wetlands are important habitats for insectivorous bats, as the presence of water promotes insect abundance and provides drinking water for wildlife, and therefore could promote bat conservation...
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To assess climatic and soil conditions under which salts will move out of the root zone in a soil disturbed by a pipeline and to determine the rate at which salts will move in disturbed soils.
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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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Patricio Pacheco-Cancino
Rubén Carrillo-López
Armando Sepulveda-Jauregui
Marcelo Somos-Valenzuela
Mosses of the genus Sphagnum are the dominant vegetation in most pristine peatlands in temperate and high-latitude regions. They play a crucial role in carbon sequestration, being responsible for ca...
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InnoTech Alberta
University of Alberta
The InnoTech/UofA above ground mesocosm facility enables configurable, innovative approaches for assessing potential environmental and ecological impacts of industrial activities
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Advisory Committee for Cooperation on Wildlife Management
Resource Date:
November
2014
There is no management board for this herd, but there is a management plan. The plan was prepared under the authority of the Advisory Committee for Cooperation on Wildlife Management. This group...
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This five-page document provides ten protocols for hunting caribou as described by the Dënesųłıné (Chipewyan) people, and include commentary from elders to help explain the protocols. This resource...
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Eric Neilson
C. Castillo-Ayala
Justin Beckers
Cheryl-Ann Johnson
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
Nicolas Mansuy
Allicia Kelly
Marc-André Parisien
Effective species conservation efforts require insight into whether a species’ extent of occurrence may shift due to changing climate, habitat loss, or both. The extent of occurrence of the threatened...
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Richard Johnson
Peter Bork
Paul Layte
Oil sands processing operations in northeastern Alberta generate 25 x 106 m3 of water-fines mixtures (sludge) per year. The fines settle in several weeks but will not consolidate to more than 35%...
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Resource Date:
August
2016
We examined how manipulating operational sex ratio (OSR: the ratio of reproductively active males to fertilizable females), could affect the intensity of competition in reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus)...
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Alex Horne
Marc Beutel
Greg Woodside
Nitrate pollution of surface water from farms and urban runoff is widespread – impairing drinking water supplies, recreation, and wildlife habitat. The scale of the problem in rivers has overwhelmed...
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Owen Slater
Amber Backwell
Rachel Cook
John Cook
Long-distance transport of caribou ( Rangifer tarandus) can result in morbidities and mortalities. This case report describes the use of a long-acting tranquilizer, zuclopenthixol acetate (ZA) and...
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Jevins Waddell
Carl Davison
B.J. Min
A major theme for working in northern remote sites is overcoming logistical and technical challenges related to short season and limited access to remediate petroleum hydrocarbon impacted soil and...
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Paul Yeung
Richard Johnson
Commercially-produced enzymes were not effective in degrading oil in contaminated soil. Soil water repellency was reduced immediately by the enzyme treatment however it returned.
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A relatively brief paper published by the Yukon government in 2009, it summarizes the experience of the managing five different Yukon herds (mostly non-migratory). It suggests that both harvest...
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Soil, a great and indispensable natural resource, is gradually carried away by wind action and erosion. Agricultural producers are aware of this, and many of them combat such factors by planting trees...
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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.
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Jim Davies
Ryan Melnichuk
Craig Aumann
Zhongzhi Chen
Brian Eaton
An aquatic mesocosm facility consisting of thirty 15,000 L tanks was constructed in Vegreville, Alberta to support environmental research. In 2017, an experiment was conducted as an inaugural run for...
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Barbara Vuillaume
Julien Richard
Steeve Côté
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
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Antoine Karam
Louis Azzaria
Les résidus miniers utilisés dans la présente étude proviennent de douze sites d'échantillonnage couvrant l'ensemble du parc à résidus miniers East Sullivan. Ces échantillons ont été intimement...