Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Indigenous Knowledge Circle (IKC) of the National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium (NBCKC)
This video is a recording of a presentation about the Moose Lake Access Management Plan (MLAMP), a unique agreement and collaboration between the Government of Alberta and Fort McKay First Nation. Now...
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Eric Palm
Mike Suitor
Kyle Joly
Jim Herriges
Allicia Kelly
Dave Hervieux
Kelsey Russell
Torsten Bentzen
Nic Larter
Mark Hebblewhite
More frequent and severe fires are creating winter habitat loss for caribou. Caribou avoid burn areas in winter.
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Climate change is expected to increasingly impact populations of woodland caribou and much focus has been placed on how a warming climate has facilitated the northward expansion of apparent...
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Density dependence is a key population ecology parameter that can influence variation in life-history, morphology, and behaviour. Caribou population density is known to fluctuate through space and...
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Climate-induced northern forest change may be severe, altering resources for boreal caribou. Mitigating the conservation challenges associated with caribou could be dampened through forecasts of...
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In the firth episode of ABMI's bi-weekly webinar series called 'Our Nature to Know', Melanie Dickie presents ABMI's Future Directions on Caribou Monitoring and Conservation. In this presentation...
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Melanie Dickie
Robert Serrouya
Marcus Becker
Craig DeMars
Michael Noonan
Robin Steenweg
Stan Boutin
Adam Ford
Anthropogenic habitat alteration and climate change are two well-known contributors to biodiversity loss through changes to species distribution and abundance; yet, disentangling the effects of these...
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Environmental and biological sciences are often siloed from examining Indigenous-related concerns, which can compromise Indigenous rights. Learning about braiding Indigenous ways of knowing and...
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In Norway, reindeer are fragmented into roughly 23 wild populations and 76 semi-domestic herding districts. The variation in forage quantity, migratory behaviour, and demography across these...
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Micheline Manseau
Paul Wilson
Information on the size, distribution and trend of wildlife populations are key parameters when assessing the status of wildlife species. Quantifying the impacts of natural and anthropogenic...
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Anthropogenic habitat alteration via land conversion directly reduces habitat availability and disrupts ecological processes. Western Canada’s boreal forest has undergone rapid landscape change as a...
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Seasonality is an important component in shaping the dynamics that influence ecosystems, including mortality. We investigated temporal patterns of mortality in the boreal ecotype of woodland caribou (...
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This video is a recording of a webinar where Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) and Mikisew Cree First Nation (MCFN) presented about their plan for protecting, restoring, and actively managing...
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Eric Neilson
Ryan Grandjambe
Ryan Abel
Lorne Gould
Dani Degenhardt
Cynthia Chand
Effective restoration and monitoring of biodiversity on working landscapes requires sustained efforts from multiple sectors, stakeholders and rights holders. Importantly, such efforts are not legal...
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Sakari Mykra-Pohja
Mila Niemi
Pekka Kilpelainen
The Finnish wild forest reindeer Rangifer tarandus fennicus occurred throughout Finland still in the 17th century. It was gradually hunted to nationwide extinction by the 1920s but started to re...
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Jeremy Brammer
Allyson Menzies
Laurence Carter
Xavier Giroux-Bougard
Manuelle Landry-Cuerrier
Melanie-Louise Leblanc
Mikhaela Neelin
Emily Studd
Murray Humphries
Traditional food systems based on harvest from the local environment are fundamental to the well-being of many communities, but their security is challenged by rapid socio-ecological change. We...
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Jamie Snook
Ashlee Cunsolo
David Borish
Chris Furgal
James Ford
Inez Shiwak
Charlie Flowers
Sherilee Harper
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October
2021
This study characterizes Inuit-caribou relationships; explores Inuit perspectives on how caribou have been managed; and identifies opportunities for sustaining the Mealy Mountain Caribou. Abstract...
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Quinn Webber
Kristy Ferraro
Jack Hendrix
Eric Vander Wal
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January
2022
Historically the study of diet caribou and reindeer (Rangifer tarandus (Gmelin, 1788)) has been specific to herds and few comprehensive circumpolar analyses of Rangifer diet exist. As a result, the...
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Jan Adamczewski
Anne Gunn
Kim Poole
Alex Hall
John Nishi
John Boulanger
The Beverly herd was one of the first large migratory herds of barren-ground caribou ( Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) defined in northern Canada on the basis of annual return of breeding females to...
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Daniel Fortin
Philip McLoughlin
Mark Hebblewhite
Resource Date:
March
2020
A significant challenge of conservation biology is to preserve species in places where their critical habitat also attracts significant economic interest. The problem is compounded when species...