Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Deborah Cichowski
Scott McNay
Justina Ray
Most populations of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in southern British Columbia (BC) have undergone dramatic declines, especially in the last 10-20 years, with seven herds already extirpated and another...
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Authors
Barry Nobert
Terrence Larsen
Karine Pigeon
Laura Finnegan
Resource Date:
April
2020
Abstract Mountain pine beetle (MPB) has become an invasive forest pest of mature pine in western North America as it spreads beyond its former endemic range. Management actions such as timber harvest...
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Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada
In the summer of 2021, PDAC completed their Caribou Management Strategies: Best Practices for the Mineral Industry study, to analyze the impact of exploration and mining activity on caribou...
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Abstract Alaska Natives of northwest Alaska are highly dependent on barren-ground caribou ( Rangifer tarandus) for meeting their nutritional and cultural needs. The Alaska Native village of Noatak...
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Laura Finnegan
Bryan Macbeth
Doug MacNearney
Karine Pigeon
Terry Larsen
Helen Schwantje
Susan Kutz
Woodland caribou are in decline across their range and although the proximate cause of decline is unsustainable rates of predation, health is increasingly recognised as a factor that may contribute to...
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As caribou habitat restoration initiatives have become more widespread across Alberta in the last decade, key uncertainties have been recognized regarding what treatment types are appropriate for...
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Tiff-Annie Kenny
Myriam Fillion
Sarah Simpkin
Sonia Wesche
Hing Man Chan
A 2018 academic paper examining the relationship between Inuit nutrition and caribou. It found that “Caribou was the top dietary source of protein in Nunavut (up to 35% of total intake) and the ISR...
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Resource Date:
December
2017
The primary objective of the Pilot is to establish and maintain a small breeding population of caribou in a fenced predator-free exclosure within their natural habitat in northeast Alberta. The intent...
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Authors
Laura Finnegan
Doug MacNearney
Gord Stenhouse
Resource Date:
November
2016
This presentation by Dr. Laura Finnegan explores caribou response to oil and gas activities.
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Genevieve Degre-Timmons
Emmanuelle Gendron
This artistic creation has emerged from a collaboration between a PhD candidate, Geneviève Degré-Timmons and an artist, Emmanuelle Gendron, where they explored the synergies between natural science...
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Government of Northwest Territories
A poster showing how to tell the difference between male and female caribou. This resource and others can be found on the Northern Caribou Canada website. To find more related resources click here.
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Authors
Heather Johnson
Trevor Golden
Layne Adams
David Gustine
Elizabeth Lenart
Resource Date:
December
2020
Increasing demands for energy have generated interest in expanding oil and gas production on the North Slope of Alaska, USA, raising questions about the resilience of barren-ground caribou ( Rangifer...
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Authors
David Borish
Ashlee Cunsolo
Jamie Snook
Inez Shiwak
Michele Wood
HERD Caribou Project Steering Committee
Ian Mauro
Cate Dewey
Sherilee Harper
Examines the critical interplay between cultural continuity and adaptive capacity for responding to ecological uncertainty based on an Inuit-led, multi-year, multi-media qualitative and visual media
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Authors
Mathieu Leblond
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
Steeve Côté
Background: Freshwater lakes and rivers of the Northern Hemisphere have been freezing increasingly later and thawing increasingly earlier during the last century. With reduced temporal periods during...
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Avni Malhotra from Stanford University will be presenting on October 8, 2020 at 2:00PM MST on Getting to the Root of it: Climate Change in Peatlands. Peatlands store one-third of the world's soil...
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Bianca Rodríguz-Cardona from the Université du Québec à Montréal will be presenting on November 12, 2020 at 2:00 PM MST on Carbon and Nirtogen Dynamics in Arctic and Boreal Aquatic Ecosystems. Arctic...
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Scott Davidson from Waterloo University will be presenting on December 3, 2020 at 2:00 PM MST on Impact of Linear Disturbances Across Peatlands in Northern Alberta. Peatlands cover 12% of Canada's...
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The Catchment and Wetland Science Seminar Series features early-career scientists in catchment and wetland sciences. This presentation will be given by Sara Sayedi from Brigham Young University on...
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The Catchment and Wetland Science Seminar Series features early-career scientists in catchment and wetland sciences. This presentation will be given by Dolly Kothawala from Uppsala University on...
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The Catchment and Wetland Science Seminar Series features early-career scientists in catchment and wetland sciences. This presentation will be given by Claire Griffin from the University of Virginia...