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A Guide To Mosses And Liverworts Of Alberta Peatlands
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The guide identifies 60 species of mosses and liverworts that comprise the flora of fens and bogs in Alberta and western boreal Canada, designed for use in the field and laboratory.
A Life Cycle Approach to Vegetation Management on Reclaimed Industrial Sites
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This resource is an excerpt from an issue of Canadian Reclamation (Issue 4, Vol 14) containing and article advising practitioners on best practices for vegetation management using the Life Cycle...
A Regional Integrated Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change and of the Potential Adaptation Avenues for Quebec’s Forests
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Regional analyses assessing the vulnerabilities of forest ecosystems and the forest sector to climate change are key to consider the heterogeneity of climate change impacts but also the fact that...
Alberta Native Plants and Seeds: Wild Harvest, Registration and Deployment. A Guide for Technicians and Practitioners
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Re-vegetation of land disturbances began in Alberta in the 1970’s and has evolved over time. The use of native plants to revegetate land disturbances in forested areas of Alberta is mandated by the...
Alternative Native Boreal Seed and Plant Delivery Systems for Oil Sands Reclamation
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The purpose of this document is to review traditional and alternative systems of seed and nursery stock treatment and delivery for use in oil sands reclamation. Treatment systems are considered those...
Amanda Schoonmaker
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NSERC Indst Research Chair - Boreal Rec and Reforest
An Update on Inuit Perceptions of Their Changing Environment, Qikiqtaaluk (Baffin Island, Nunavut)
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Objective of this study was to shed light on how the impacts of climate change are currently perceived in the communities of Kanngiqtugaapik, Pangniqtuuq, and Qikiqtarjuaq
Assessing Ecological Recovery of Reclaimed Well Sites: A Case Study From Alberta, Canada
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Empirical evaluations of reclamation success are critical for understanding the speed of ecosystem recovery and improving best practices. In this study, we provide a quantitative evaluation of the...
Assessing Peatland Restoration Success to Meet Alberta’s Peatland Reclamation Criteria
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We conducted a full peatland assessment using the new criteria on a restored well pad near Peace River, Alberta. In 2012, mineral overburden was removed along with geo-textile and the buried peat was...
Assessing Post-harvest Interim Seed Storage Conditions: A Case Study of Four Boreal Plant Species
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The longevity of seeds in storage is modulated by the initial quality as well as the storage conditions.
Assessing the Influence of Resource Covariates at Multiple Spatial Scales: An Application to Forest Dwelling Caribou Faced with Intensive Human Activity
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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...
Avoidance of Roads and Selection for Recent Cutovers by Threatened Caribou: Fitness-Rewarding or Maladaptive Behaviour?
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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...
Boreal Caribou Can Coexist with Natural but Not Industrial Disturbances
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Abstract: For species at risk, it is important that demographic models be consistent with our most recent knowledge because alternate model versions can have differing predictions for wildlife and...
Boreal Wetland Well Site Reclamation across Alberta: Implications for Restoration of Linear Disturbances
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This research poster discusses and compares various treatments to well pad sites as well as an overview of temporary and permanent linear features. Presented at the NAIT 7th Seminar on Linear...
Calving Rate, Calf Survival Rate, and Habitat Selection of Forest-Dwelling Caribou in a Highly Managed Landscape
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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...
Can Plant or Lichen Natural Abundance 15N Ratios Indicate the Influence of Oil Sands N Emissions on Bogs?
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The 140,329 km 2 Athabasca Oil Sands Administrative Area (OSAA), which contains 8982 km 2 of bogs. Since the late 1970s, N emissions from oil sands development in the OSAA have steadily increased...