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Climate, Land Cover and Topography: Essential Ingredients in Predicting Wetland Permanence
Centering Indigenous Voices: The Role of Fire in the Boreal Forest of North America
The Edge 2022 (BERA Systhesis)
How Mounds are Made Matters: Seismic Line Restoration Techniques Affect Peat Physical and Chemical Properties Throughout the Peat Profile
Relative Importance for Lincoln’s Sparrow (Melospiza lincolnii) Occupancy of Vegetation Type versus Noise Caused by Industrial Development
BERA News Fall 2022
BERA News Spring 2022
The Boreal Ecosystem Recovery and Assessment (BERA)
The boreal region of Alberta contains extensive disturbances from natural resource extraction. Roads, well pads, seismic lines (petroleum-exploration corridors), forest-harvest areas, and other elements of human footprint exert cumulative environmental effects that influence vegetation communities, wildlife, hydrology, and carbon dynamics. The Boreal Ecosystem Recovery and Assessment (BERA) project is a multi-sectoral research partnership of academic institutions, private-sector companies, a public-sector division, and a not-for-profit organization. Our central goal is to understand the effects of industrial disturbance on natural ecosystem dynamics in the boreal forest, and to develop strategies for restoring disturbed landscapes in a system that is under pressure from climate change.