Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Eric Post
Christian Pedersen
David Watts
Ecological rarity, characterized by low abundance or limited distribution, is typical of most species, yet our understanding of what factors contribute to the persistence of rare species remains...
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Camile Sothe
Alemu Gonsamo
Joyce Arabian
James Snider
Resource Date:
August
2021
Canada has extensive forests and peatlands that play key roles in global carbon cycle. Canadian soils and peatlands are assumed to store approximately 20% of the world’s soil carbon stock. However...
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Jean-François Côté
Olivier van Lier
Dasvinder Kambo
This fibre fact demonstrates that fine-scale structural information derived from t-lidar and new modeling techniques can improve wood fibre attribute predictions.
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The scientific community, forest managers, environmental organizations, carbon-offset trading systems and policy-makers require tools to account for forest carbon stocks and carbon stock changes. In...
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V. Fewster
Chris MacQuarrie
Jeffrey Fidgen
Le puceron lanigère de la pruche ( Adelges tsugae) est une population introduite ravageur de pruches dans l’est du Canada et l’est des États-Unis. Puceron lanigère de la pruche est aussi présent en...
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Jasmeen Kaur
Amanda Schoonmaker
Jean-Marie Sobze
Abstract: Alnus viridis (Chaix) DC. subsp. crispa (Aiton) Turrill (Betulaceae), commonly known as green alder or mountain alder, is a boreal shrub used to revegetate disturbed lands because of its...
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Ressources naturelles Canada
Minimal disturbance is an approach to oil and gas development that aims to preserve the attributes of the original site as much as possible during development. Minimal disturbance practices include...
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S. Gauthier
L. De Grandpré
C.H. Ung
D. Paré
Topics covered: A silvicultural approach more suited to boreal forests Defining old-growth forests within boreal forests Do ecological region and drainage have an impact on the site quality index of...
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Jeff Fera
Daniel Gouge
Evelyne Thiffault
Nelson Thiffault
This fibre fact provides an overview of how salvage logging can provide an opportuntiy for the forest industry to supply Canada's bioeconomy with wood fibre as well as regenerate a forest.
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Ressources naturelles Canada
Canada has 362 million hectares of forests that support a wide range of social, cultural, economic and ecological services. Many of these services are monitored by the forest sector, often summarized...
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Lucas Roscoe
Lucas Roscoe
Rosanna Lamb
Peter Silk
Among the most useful control methods for the defoliating pest spruce budworm is tebufenozide. Tebufenozide is an insect growth regulator that, when ingested, stimulates abnormal and fatal moutling in...
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Stephen Mayor
Stan Boutin
Fangliang He
James Cahill
Rank species occupancy curves revealed high species dominance regardless of disturbance: within any disturbance class a few species occupied nearly every site and most species were found in a low...
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S.O. Olatuyi
Leonard Leskiw
Elevated salinity and sodicity are major challenges to reclamation of surface-mined coal sites in the Alberta Plains region. Research plots were established in 1981 at the Battle River Coal Mine near...
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Controlling insect pests in forests is a constant challenge. Aside from prevention and monitoring, there are very few means available to achieve this goal. With the aim of heading off trouble and...
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Annosus root and butt rot was first reported in Quebec in 1989. The causal fungus enters a pine stand by colonizing the surface of freshly cut stumps. The disease spreads through contact between the...
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Erin Tattersall
Joanna Burgar
Jason Fisher
Cole Burton
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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Nelson Thiffault
Michael Hoepting
Jeff Fera
Jean-Martin Lussier
Guy Larocque
This fact sheet provides an overview of a red pine spacing trial experiment established in 1953 near the Petawawa Research Forest (PRF) in Chalk River, Ontario, Canada. The experiment provides...
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Harry Spaling
Janelle Zwier
William Ross
Roger Creasey
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Boreal Avian Modelling Project
Bioclimatic niche models of current avian distribution and density for 80 boreal-breeding songbird species are mapped based on present counts and climate change models
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Gustavo Queiroz
Gregory McDermid
Guillermo Castilla
Julia Linke
Mir Rahman
Coarse woody debris (CWD; large parts of dead trees) is a vital element of forest ecosystems, playing an important role in nutrient cycling, carbon storage, fire fuel, microhabitats, and overall...