Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Resources naturelles Canada
Forests are part of a living system where carbon is continually captured from and emitted to the atmosphere. Calculating the impact of human actions on forest carbon is a complex, but critically...
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Ressources naturelles Canada
Forests are part of a living system where carbon is continually captured from and emitted to the atmosphere. Calculating the impact of human actions on forest carbon is a complex, but critically...
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Woodpecker activity on ash trees in the winter may not seem worrisome; however, it may be a sign that a beetle is hiding under the bark. Could it be the emerald ash borer?
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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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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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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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National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium
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December
2020
The Local and Harvest Interviews Factsheet is a rapid infographic-style communication covering the essentials of the Local and Harvest Interviews monitoring method for boreal caribou. This resource is...
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Abstract Seismic lines in boreal peatlands are struggling to restore native canopy level vegetation. Mounding is a common restoration method that provides an advantageous growing environment for...
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Caribou ( Rangifer tarandus) are affected by density-dependent and -independent processes at various temporal scales. Populations residing on Arctic tundra can be affected by both density-independent...
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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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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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Map of Range Planning areas in Manitoba.
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Cosmin Filipescu
Bill Beese
Derek Sattler
Jeff Sandford
Cosmin Filipescu and colleagues present a lecture to the Canadian Institute of Forestry on alternative silvicultural systems in montane environments. The authors compared clear cutting, green tree...
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Methylmercury (MeHg), a bioaccumulative neurotoxin, is microbially produced in anoxic wetland environments. The direct or indirect management of wetlands is pervasive, but many questions remain...
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Laura Finnegan
Jennifer Hird
Karine Pigeon
Jerome Cranston
Mark Hebblewhite
Marco Musiani
Lalenia Neufeld
Fiona Schmiegelow
Julie Duval
Goron Stenhouse
The paper by the Caribou Program (and GIS and Grizzly Bear Programs) breaks down how seismic lines are influencing predator movement by season and species. This infographic was illustrated by Jennifer...
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Wildlife Management Advisory Council (North Slope)
A 2018 2-page fact sheet on competition between muskoxen and caribou, focused mostly on the Porcupine herd range. It concludes that, “...the two species are not likely to compete with each other for...