Boreal Caribou Search Results
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In the foothills of the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, Canada, increasing socio-political conflict regarding feral horse management and significance of the ecological role now being played by horses...
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Anthropogenic habitat alteration via land conversion directly reduces habitat availability and disrupts ecological processes. Western Canada’s boreal forest has undergone rapid landscape change as a...
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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...
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Seasonality is an important component in shaping the dynamics that influence ecosystems, including mortality. We investigated temporal patterns of mortality in the boreal ecotype of woodland caribou (...
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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...
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Nicolas Feau presents a lecture to the Canadian Institute of Forestry on the 'Strong Seeds for Our Future Forests' program. The talk describes the diversity and functions of the conifer seed mycobiome...
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Grassland birds are among the steepest declining bird groups in North America, largely due to habitat loss associated with grassland conversion to cropland and shrub encroachment. To overcome this...
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Predation has both direct and indirect effects on prey. I considered the possibility that caribou population growth may be limited by summer food because they quit ‘surfing the green wave’, because of...
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This video is a recording of a webinar where Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) and Mikisew Cree First Nation (MCFN) presented about their plan for protecting, restoring, and actively managing...
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Matthew Pyper
Jason Barrie
Jesse Tigner
Restoration of linear features is gaining significant momentum in the context of caribou conservation, and there is significant focus on this topic within the academic literature. However, the cost of...
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Eric Neilson
Ryan Grandjambe
Ryan Abel
Lorne Gould
Dani Degenhardt
Cynthia Chand
Effective restoration and monitoring of biodiversity on working landscapes requires sustained efforts from multiple sectors, stakeholders and rights holders. Importantly, such efforts are not legal...
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Eric Neilson
Ryan Grandjambe
Ryan Abel
Lorne Gould
Dani Degenhardt
Cynthia Chand
Effective restoration and monitoring of biodiversity on working landscapes requires sustained efforts from multiple sectors, stakeholders and rights holders. Importantly, such efforts are not legal...
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One of the neat things about working in environmental monitoring is the sheer range of tools available to use, and the rate at which they’re evolving. One example that’s rapidly changing monitoring...
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The presentation discusses some of the relationships bison have with the species they share space and time with, with a focus on the northern mixed-grass prairie ecosystem. As a keystone species...
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Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal and transmissible neurodegenerative disease that affects wild and farmed cervids. It is spreading across North America at increasing rates, with cases detected...
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Authors
Matthew Pyper
Katalijn MacAfee
Matthew Pyper and Katalijn MacAfee present a lecture to the Canadian Institute of Forestry on the background of the 2 Billion Trees program and various silvicultural tools and practices to increase...
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Much of our foundational knowledge about caribou is based on observational and quasi-experimental studies. This can lead to biased predictions of the benefits of management actions, due to statistical...
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Sakari Mykra-Pohja
Mila Niemi
Pekka Kilpelainen
The Finnish wild forest reindeer Rangifer tarandus fennicus occurred throughout Finland still in the 17th century. It was gradually hunted to nationwide extinction by the 1920s but started to re...
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Join Alex MacPhail for an overview of ultrasonic data management and processing on WildTrax! Our newest features let you manage and tag data from bat or small mammal monitoring projects.
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Céline Boisvenue presents a lecture to the Canadian Institute of Forestry on GHG emissions in Forestry / Forest Ecology. In this talk, various models are introduced that could help viewers quantify...