Boreal Caribou Search Results
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Marc-André Parisien
Denyse Dawe
Carol Miller
Christopher Stockdale
Bradley Armitage
Wildland fire scientists and land managers working in fire-prone areas require spatial estimates of wildfire potential. To fulfill this need, a simulation-modelling approach was developed whereby...
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Jesse Tigner
Erin Bayne
Stan Boutin
Resource Date:
January
2014
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Jesse Whittington
Mark Hebblewhite
Nicholas DeCesare
Lalenia Neufeld
Mark Bradley
John Wilmshurst
Marco Musiani
1. Caribou and reindeer Rangifer tarandus are declining across North America and Scandinavia in part from wolf Canis lupus-mediated apparent competition with more abundant ungulate prey species. While...
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As caribou habitat restoration initiatives have become more widespread across Alberta in the last decade, key uncertainties have been recognized regarding what treatment types are appropriate for...
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Reconstructed soils representing different materials handling and replacement techniques were characterized and variability in chemical and physical properties was assessed
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Forest fire is the primary natural disturbance process influencing the distribution and abundance of terrestrial lichens across ranges of woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou), including the...
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Cari Ficken
Stephanie Connor
Rebecca Rooney
Danielle Cobbaert
Resource Date:
August
2021
Boreal peatlands provide numerous ecosystem services ranging from carbon sequestration to the provisioning of habitat for species integral to Indigenous communities. In the Oil Sands Region of Alberta...
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Chris Stockdale
Quinn Barber
Amit Saxena
Marc-Andre Parisien
Resource Date:
March
2019
We undertook a wildfire risk assessment across the Cold Lake caribou range where we used the Burn-P3 model to determine: a) burn probability; b) wildfire risk to restored seismic line areas; and c) the effectiveness of mitigation measures. The burn probability of the landscape was highly heterogeneous, and recent large burns and some waterbodies provided “shields” that reduced burn probability on their leeward sides.
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Ian Thompson
Philip Wiebe
Erin Mallon
Arthur Rodgers
John Fryxell
James Baker
Douglas Reid
Resource Date:
November
2014
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Threatened woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) have experienced large range recessions and population declines across much of Canada’s boreal forest in the last century and have become a...
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A 30-page report from 2012 on the Yukon portion of the herd’s range. It includes discussion of the potential impacts of forest fires. This resource and others can be found on the Northern Caribou...
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Eric Palm
Michael Suitor
Kyle Joly
Jim Herriges
Allicia Kelly
Dave Hervieux
Kelsey Russell
Torsten Bentzen
Nicholas Larter
Mark Hebblewhite
Resource Date:
January
2022
Climate change will lead to more frequent and more severe fires in some areas of boreal forests, affecting the distribution and availability of late-successional forest communities. These forest...
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Sini-Selina Salko
Jussi Juola
Iuliia Burdun
Harri Vasander
Miina Rautiainen
Boreal peatlands store ~25 % of global soil organic carbon and host many endangered species; however, they face degradation due to climate change and anthropogenic drainage. In boreal peatlands...
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Megan Hornseth
Karine Pigeon
Doug MacNearney
Terrence Larsen
Gordon Stenhouse
Jerome Cranston
Laura Finnegan
Natural regeneration of seismic lines, cleared for hydrocarbon exploration, is slow and often hindered by vegetation damage, soil compaction, and motorized human activity. There is an extensive...
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Cassidy van Rensen
Scott Nielsena
Barry White
Tim Vinge
Victor Lieffers
Mapping of oil reserves involves the use of seismic lines (linear disturbances) to determine both their location and extent. Conventional clearing techniques for seismic assessment have left a legacy...
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Mapping of oil reserves involves the use of seismic lines (linear disturbances) to determine size of reserves. These linear disturbances fragment forests and in many cases fail to regenerate trees...
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Chantel Markle
Paul Moore
Mike Waddington
Identifying ecosystems resilient to climate and land-use changes is recognized as essential for conservation strategies. However, wetland ecosystems may respond differently to stressors depending on...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Boreal caribou populations are declining across Alberta and much of their Canadian range. Key factors causing this decline include a warming climate along with habitat change from industrial...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Seismic lines and other linear features created by humans are thought to negatively impact woodland caribou. It is estimated that there are c. 100,000 km of conventional seismic lines in caribou...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Resource Date:
January
2020
Linear features, including seismic lines, pipelines, transmission lines, roads, railways, and trails are pervasive in Alberta’s boreal forest and have been implicated as a primary factor leading to...