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Ways We Respect Caribou: Teetł'it Gwich'in Rules
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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...
Webinar - A Road Runs Through it: What Happens when the Dam Road Gets in the Way
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This webinar explores the effects of roads built through peatlands with horizontal water flow, including ability to affect local hydrology and thus vegetation composition and structure.
Webinar - Boreal Peatlands in the Discontinuous Permafrost Zone of Canada
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Peatlands cover 12% of Canada, and a majority of Canadian peatlands are found in regions with perennially frozen ground, also known as permafrost. The deep, organic soils of peatlands provide...
Webinar - Climate Change and Peatland Functions in Alberta and the Northwest Territories
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The Mackenzie River Basin, encompassing much of boreal Alberta, is the third largest boreal peatland region in the world and the region is warming at rate much greater than the global average. Climate...
Webinar - Disentangling Cumulative Impacts of Multiple Stressors on Freshwater Ecosystems
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Knowledge gaps concerning how various human activities combine to impact freshwater ecosystems can result in reported damaging “ecological surprises.” Although ecological surprises are typically...
Webinar - Does Biodiversity Recover Following Harvest? Lessons From the Boreal Forest
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Boreal forests are regularly subjected to natural disturbances, which affect forest structure, composition, age distribution, biodiversity, and ecosystem function. Forest biodiversity shows continual...
Webinar - Grassland Carbon and Livestock Grazing: An Undervalued Ecosystem Service?
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Grasslands represent a major ecosystem in Alberta, and play a key role in supporting livestock grazing on both private and public land. Despite this, the current revenue streams provided by grasslands...
Webinar - How Mounds are Made Matters: Implications for Seismic Line Restoration in Peatlands
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Presented by Kimberly Kleinke from the University of Waterloo The boreal forest of western Canada is fragmented by seismic lines created for oil and gas exploration. These linear disturbances have...
Webinar - Impact of Resource Extraction on Canada's Boreal Peatlands
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This presentation highlights ongoing research in northern Alberta examining peatland carbon and greenhouse gas exchange as a measure of peatland ecosystem function.
Webinar - Impacts on Peatland Functions in Western Boreal Canada: Fire and Thaw
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This presentation covers effects of peatland fire on permafrost stability, consequences of permafrost thaw on greenhouse gas exchange, and opportunities to learn from natural disturbances.
Webinar - Restoring the Wetland Plant Community After Invasive Reed Control
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Recovery and Resistance: Restoring the wetland plant community after invasive reed control Presenter: Dr. Rebecca Rooney, University of Waterloo For established invasions, like European common reed...
Webinar - Rethinking Risk - Some insights from Wildfires in Canada
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The 2023 wildfire season in Canada is now the worst ever recorded, with over fifteen million hectares burned. In the last 65 years, only four other fire seasons in Canada have produced burned areas...
Webinar - Returning the Carbon Sink Function: An Overview of Canadian Peatland Restoration
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This presentation provides an overview of a long-term university-industry research partnership to improve understanding of peatland ecosystem function and reclamation techniques.
Webinar - Social and Economic Dimensions of Chronic Wasting Disease in Alberta
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Chronic wasting disease – a fatal prion disease that affects cervids – has impacts on a number of different stakeholder groups. This presentation will provide an overview of our research on the social...
Webinar - The Evaluation of Peatland Restoration Following In-situ Oil and Gas Infrastructure Disturbances
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Presented by Meike Lemmer, PhD, Research Scientist at University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf Dr. Meika Lemmer's research studied several peatland restoration approaches following the...
Webinar - Tracking the Dynamics of Cyanobacterial Blooms Using Satellite Imagery
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Ground-truthing of remote-sensing of surface chlorophyll concentrations in Pigeon Lake was performed to calibrate a chlorophyll retrieval algorithm. High performance liquid chromatography and advanced...
Webinar - Tree Growth in Wooded Fens: Living Above the Flood
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Moderate to rich fens covered with tamarack and black spruce cover large areas of Alberta. These peatlands are nearly pH neutral and are characterized by hummock-hollow topography where the hummocks...
“We’re Made Criminals Just to Eat off the Land”: Colonial Wildlife Management and Repercussions on Inuit Well-Being
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This study characterizes Inuit-caribou relationships; explores Inuit perspectives on how caribou have been managed; and identifies opportunities for sustaining the Mealy Mountain Caribou. Abstract...
Wetlands in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region: The Nexus between Wetland Hydrological Function and Resource Extraction
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Oil sands development within the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) has accelerated in recent decades, causing alteration to natural ecosystems including wetlands that perform many vital ecosystem...