Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Oil Sands Research and Information Network
This report provides a chronological record of media headlines related to a variety of pipelines and pipeline proposals in Canada and the United States from April 2010 to December 19, 2014.
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Jessica Allan
Mélina Guêné-Nanchen
Line Rochefort
David Douglas
Jan Axmacher
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October
2023
Abstract The provision of critical ecosystem services like carbon sequestration by peatlands has been degraded around the globe. Peatland restoration represents an opportunity to tackle the twin...
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Aneta Bieniada
Laura Hug
Christopher Parsons
Maria Strack
The microbial community in peat is responsible for organic matter degradation and greenhouse gas emissions, yet its response to peat extraction and peatland restoration remains poorly understood. We...
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Tim Keddy
Derek Sidders
Connie Nichol
The goal of this operations guide is to assist those who seek to establish and manage fast growing, high-yield afforestation plantations for the vegetation of phosphogypsum (PG) stacks. The approach...
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Tim Keddy
Derek Sidders
Connie Nichol
The video for this guide can be found here: www.cclmportal.ca/resource/reclamation-phosphogypsum-stacks-using-afforestation-video The goal of this operations guide is to assist those who seek to...
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Karen Christensen-Dalsgaard
Niloshini Sinnatamby
Mark Poesch
Best predictors for fisheries productivity remain the quantity and quality of available fish habitat combined with abundance, size structure data and species composition within the given habitats
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Abdul Samad
Dani Degenhardt
Armand Séguin
Marie-Josée Morency
Patrick Gagné
Christine Martineau
The oil sands mining operations in Alberta have produced billions of m3 of tailings which must be reclaimed and integrated into various mine closure landforms, including terrestrial landforms...
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Michael Dumas
Roy Whitney
Armillaria root rot is the most widespread and destructive root disease of trees in Ontario. The main species found within the province is Armillaria ostoyae [Romagnesi| Kerink (Dumas 1988) which...
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Tomentosus root rot is one of three major pathogens discussed in greater detail in The Hidden Enemy (Whitney 1988). This technical note presents a practical summary of this and other publications for...
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Land Conservation and Reclamation Council
These are the minimum requirements that the Land Conservation and Reclamation Council will apply in assessing whether the reclamation of lands has been satisfactory
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Land Conservation and Reclamation Council
Minimum reclamation standards that should be followed to ensure proper conservation and reclamation on patented and and land that was the property of the Crown but covered by the Public Lands Act
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Enrique Doblas-Miranda
Daniel Kneeshaw
Phil Burton
Barry Cooke
Marie-Josée Fortin
David MacLean
Rongzhou Man
Michael Papaik
Brian Sturtevant
Insect outbreaks are natural and recurring disturbances that have a greater impact on wood-fibre supply than wildfires. Proactive rather than reactive management strategies provide the best...
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Anne McIntosh
Bonnie Drozdowski
Dani Degenhardt
Chris Powter
Christina Small
John Begg
Dan Farr
Arnold Janz
Randi Lupardus
Delinda Ryerson
Jim Schiek
We developed a scientifically robust and financially sustainable monitoring protocol to enable a consistent assessment of ecological recovery at reclaimed industrial wellsites in forested lands
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Nadia Rochdi
J. Zhang
Karl Staenz
X. Yang
D. Rolfson
J. Banting
C. King
R. Doherty
Scope of the project is to develop a geomatics-based monitoring system to support the Government of Alberta’s efforts for monitoring reclamation success. Software will support decision making process
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Measuring variability in natural processes requires rigorous data collection and could increase the cost of environmental monitoring for oil and gas operators. Recent advances in remote-sensing and...
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Megan Hornseth
Karine Pigeon
Doug MacNearney
Terrence Larsen
Gordon Stenhouse
Jerome Cranston
Laura Finnegan
Natural regeneration of seismic lines, cleared for hydrocarbon exploration, is slow and often hindered by vegetation damage, soil compaction, and motorized human activity. There is an extensive...
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Laureen Echiverri
Ellen Macdonald
Scott Nielsen
Treed peatlands are dominated by bryophytes, particularly Sphagnum spp., which create the characteristic hummock-hollow microtopography. This, in turn, shapes the distribution of bryophyte communities...
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Daniel Fortin
Pietro-Luciano Buono
André Fortin
Nicolas Courbin
Christian Gingras
Paul Moorcroft
Réhaume Courtois
Claude Dussault
Associate Editor: Wolf Mooij
Editor: Judith Bronstein
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
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Guillaume Moreau
Daniel Fortin
Serge Couturier
Thierry Duchesne
1. The selection for particular habitat patches can vary as a function of local and regional levels of anthropogenic disturbance. Although such functional responses can better reveal habitat loss for...
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Christopher Beirne
Catherine Sun
Erin Tattersall
Joanna Burgar
Jason Fisher
Cole Burton
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