Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Authors
Jay Woosaree
Brij Verma
Byron James
Phytoremediation, the use of plants to remove, degrade or stabilize sites contaminated with organic or toxic chemicals is gaining in popularity as an alternative and economical technique in...
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Laura Finnegan
Karine Pigeon
Jerome Cranston
Mark Hebblewhite
Marco Musiani
Lalenia Neufeld
Fiona Schmiegelow
Julie Duval
Gordon Stenhouse
Resource Date:
April
2018
Across the boreal forest of Canada, habitat disturbance is the ultimate cause of caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) declines. Habitat restoration is a focus of caribou recovery efforts, with a goal...
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Nature-based Solutions leverage nature and the power of healthy ecosystems to protect people, optimise infrastructure and safeguard a stable and biodiverse future. Explore topics related to Nature...
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Steve Wilson
Wendy Crosina
Elston Dzus
Dave Hervieux
Philip McLoughlin
Laura Trout
Thomas Nudds
Resource Date:
November
2022
Delineating relevant local populations of widely distributed species is a common challenge in conservation ecology. Caribou and reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus) are in general decline throughout their...
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Biodiversity monitoring partners across the NWT are getting a closer look at wildlife as the Government of the Northwest Territories’ Biodiversity Monitoring Program expands. Remote cameras and audio...
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Lee Harding
Mathieu Bourbonnais
Andrew Cook
Toby Spribille
Viktoria Wagner
Chris Darimont
Abstract Mountain caribou, a behaviourally and genetically distinct set of ecotypes of the Woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) restricted to the mountains of western Canada, have undergone...
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Terry Antoniuk, John Nishi, Rochelle Harding, Lynn McNeil, Karen Manuel
Resource Date:
March
2016
The Caribou Predator Fencing Pilot project (the Pilot) is a tool developed by Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) Land Environmental Priority Area (Land EPA) for caribou recovery. The...
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About the Northern Caribou Canada: Who This is a project of the Wekʼèezhìi Renewable Resources Board in collaboration with the organizations, governments, and agencies listed on the bottom of the page...
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This report provides the details of the construction and application of a set of population and harvest models for boreal caribou in two Wildlife Management Zones and six other areas of interest in...
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Northwest Territories Environment and Natural Resources is requesting that hunters hand over caribou, moose, and white-tailed deer heads to facilitate monitoring for Chronic Wasting Disease. A $50...
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Wetland Knowledge Exchange
Resource Date:
November
2023
Cassandra Chabot-Madlung, County of Grande Prairie presents - Wetland Replacement Program: How it Started & Who Can Participate This is a Municipal viewpoint of Alberta Environment and Protected Areas...
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Katherine Parker
Perry Barboza
Michael Gillingham
Resource Date:
January
2009
1. Nutrition influences most aspects of animal ecology: juvenile growth rates and adult mass gain, body condition, probability of pregnancy, over-winter survival, timing of parturition, and neonatal...
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The ability of many species to adapt to the shifting environmental conditions associated with climate change will be a key determinant of their persistence in the coming decades. This is a challenge...
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Mariano Feldman
Marc Mazerolle
Louis Imbeau
Nicole Fenton
As resource extraction moves north across the globe, wetland ecosystems in Canada are increasingly degraded because of disturbances associated with anthropic activities, including timber harvesting...
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Richard Johnson
P. Bork
E.A.D. Allen
W.H. James
L. Koverny
The experiments detailed in this report show that it was possible to increase the solids content of sludge to 50% solids by adding three parts sand (tailings sand) to one part sludge.
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Authors
Craig Mahoney
Joshua Montgomery
Stephanie Connor
Danielle Cobbaert
Abstract Boreal wetlands within the oil sands region of Alberta, Canada, are subject to natural and anthropogenic pressures, resulting in the need for monitoring these sensitive ecosystems to ensure...
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Authors
Quinn Webber
Jack Hendrix
Alec Robitaille
Eric Vanderwal
During fieldwork on 30 May 2017, we observed an unmarked adult male caribou swim between two smaller islands, a distance of 470 m, which took approximately 9 minutes. Given that swimming is...
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Global News article by Allison Jones and Liam Casey The Canadian Press. Ontario is failing to effectively protect some of the critical habitat for boreal caribou, Environment Minister Steven...
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The Ontario government recently committed $29 million over four years to support boreal caribou habitat restoration, protection, and monitoring. The funding is intended to complement the recently...
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Ottawa will not resume negotiations with Quebec on species at risk until the strategy for protecting the habitat of woodland and mountain caribou is tabled. Federal Minister Steven Guilbeault...