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Duck Doctors - There's A Duck Nest In My Yard. What Should I Expect And What Should I Do?
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Where do ducks nest? Often in natural habitat—but sometimes in yards and cities! What should you do if a duck nests in your yard? And what should you expect? In this episode of Duck Doctors, DUC...
Duck Doctors - What Do Ducks Eat?
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What's on the menu for wild ducks? Many different things, actually, depending on factors like species and the time of year. We receive many questions about what ducks eat, and if it's okay to feed...
Duck Doctors - Why Do Some Ducks Stay North In The Winter?
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Have you noticed that not all ducks fly south during fall migration? We receive many questions about why some waterfowl stay in Canada and why they aren’t bothered by the cold. In this episode of Duck...
Duck Settling and Breeding Success in Landscapes Fragmented by Linear Features
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This research poster discusses a study of linear feature impacts on settling and breeding of ducks in Alberta. Presented at the NAIT 7th Seminar on Linear Disturbance Impacts on Boreal Wetland...
Ducks Unlimited Canada Enhanced Wetland Classification and Mapping
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This presentation provides an overview of the Ducks Unlimited Canada Enhanced Wetland Classification System, including current and potential uses for wetland conservation and management.
Effects of Agriculture and Climate Change on Prairie Wetlands
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The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI), InnoTech Alberta, and Ducks Unlimited Canada have partnered on a four-year project to better understand linkages between wetland health and...
Enhanced Wetland Classification Inferred Products User Guide
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Ducks Unlimited Canada has been leading the effort to provide detailed and accurate wetland maps for large areas of the western boreal forest. These mapping products have become the cornerstone of DUC...
Factors Affecting Abundance of Beaver Dams in Forested Landscapes
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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...
February 2024 Wetland Knowledge Exchange Webinar
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Methylmercury production and export in permafrost peatland catchments of the Taiga Plains Lauren Thompson, University of Alberta Ongoing permafrost thaw in northern peatland catchments may increase...
Field Guide of Boreal Wetland Classes in the Boreal Plains Ecozone of Canada
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This plain language operational field guide helps resource managers identify wetlands in the field. It includes five major wetlands classes and 19 minor classes. Project partners include Ducks...
Forest Inventory Maps: A Useful Tool for a Wetland Classification and Regionalisation in Quebec's Forests
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Forest inventory maps can be used to quantify the area of wetland habitats and to define homogeneous regions in this regard, and therefore provide a functional tool for coarse-scale wetland management
Functional Response to Cumulative Effects as an Effective Tool for Wildlife Management
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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...
Greater Variation in Boreal Plant Community Composition and Community-level Traits at Local Than Regional Scale
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Questions Rapid climate change in northern latitudes is expected to influence plant functional traits of the whole community (community-level traits) through species compositional changes and/or trait...
Groundwater in Peat and Peatlands
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Peatlands are wetlands with soil comprised of undecomposed remains of plants that accumulate in such a way that both responds to and controls the flux and storage of surface water and groundwater, as...
Guiding Principles for Wetland Stewardship and Forest Management Practitioner Guide
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This practitioner guide provides a user-friendly overview of the interactions between boreal wetlands and forests and what these interactions mean for forest managers working in Canada’s boreal.
Guiding Principles for Wetland Stewardship and Forest Management Technical Report
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This technical report describes in detail the interactions between boreal wetlands and forests and how forest managers can use this information to help avoid or minimize adverse effects on wetlands.
Increasing Contributions of Peatlands to Boreal Evapotranspiration in a Warming Climate
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The response of evapotranspiration (ET) to warming is of critical importance to the water and carbon cycle of the boreal biome, a mosaic of land cover types dominated by forests and peatlands. The...