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The last 33 caribou: fighting for the survival of a Wet’suwet’en herd
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Surrounded by industrial development and human habitation, less than three dozen caribou remain on Wet’suwet’en territory. As government biologists fight to keep the herd alive, recovery efforts will...
The Long Road to Protecting Critical Habitat for Species at Risk: The Case of Southern Mountain Woodland Caribou
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Identifying habitat that is essential to the recovery of species at risk, known as critical habitat, is a major focus of species at risk legislation, yet there has been little research on the degree...
The Long-term Impact of Pipeline Construction on Solonetzic Mixed Prairie
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Study concentrated on the well-documented 1981 right-of-way, and compared it to the oldest trench, installed in 1957, and to the undisturbed adjacent mixed prairie
The Metabolism of Selected Organic Compounds by Microorganisms in the Athabasca River
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Incubation of samples taken along a transect of the river just downstream from the oil sands plants showed higher rates of microbial degradation on the west bank where effluents and drainage would be
The Monitoring Working Group (MWG) of the NBCKC
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(Version franç aise disponible ici) Established in 2018, the Monitoring Working Group (MWG), part of the National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium (NBCKC), is a forum to share and generate new...
The Monitoring Working Group of the NBCKC - Project page
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The 2018 Action Plan for the Woodland Caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou), Boreal Population, in Canada: Federal actions for the Threatened boreal caribou called for the collaborative development of...
The Multiple Toxicity of Vanadium, Nickel, and Phenol to Fish
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Goal of the project was the establishment of criteria safeguarding fish from toxic effects of mixtures of vanadium, nickel, and phenol to fish; all are associated with oil sands developments
The Multisource Vegetation Inventory (MVI): A Satellite-Based Forest Inventory for the Northwest Territories Taiga Plains
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Wall-to-wall 30 m raster maps of broad forest type, stand height, crown closure, stand volume, total volume, aboveground biomass, and stand age were created for a ~400,000 km2 area, validated with independent data, and generalized into a polygon GIS layer resembling a traditional FI map. The MVI project showed that a reasonably accurate FI map for large, remote, predominantly non-inventoried boreal regions can be obtained at a low cost by combining limited field data with remote sensing data from multiple sources.
The Natural Defences of Trees Against Injury and Disease
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Trees are constantly exposed to a multitude of micro-organisms, but only a few are capable of causing disease. When trees come under attack from micro-organisms, their primary line of defence is a...
The NBCKC Habitat Restoration Working Group (HRWG)
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(Version franç aise disponible ici) The Habitat Restoration Working Group (HRWG) of the NBCKC Established in 2019, the Habitat Restoration Working Group (HRWG) is a working group of the National...
The Ongoing Lateral Expansion of Peatlands in Finland
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Peatlands are the most dense terrestrial carbon stock and since the last glacial epoch northern peatlands have accumulated between 400 and 1000 Gt of carbon. Although the horizontal development...
The Operational-Scale Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS3)
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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...
The ORB Tool has Launched!
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The Online Reporting for Biodiversity (ORB) tool is a user-friendly platform for generating biodiversity and land cover reports for different areas in Alberta, including natural regions, watersheds...
The OSRIN Story: Five Years of Creating and Sharing Oil Sands Environmental Management Knowledge
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Mandates: 1. Creating oil sands environmental management knowledge, 2. Sharing oil sands environmental management information, and 3. Networking to link researchers with funders and other researchers