Boreal Caribou Search Results
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A team from the ABMI’s Caribou Monitoring Unit, studied links between habitat alteration (e.g., forest harvesting), primary productivity, moose, wolves, and caribou across the Canadian boreal forest
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August
2021
With the support of Alberta Environment and Parks, the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute has become the trusted source for data about habitat, species, and the human footprint.
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Habitat loss occurred in nearly 70% of caribou ranges in AB and BC, and on average they lost more than twice as much habitat as they gained over the period for which data were available
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
These results suggest that restoring caribou habitat to nearly unaltered conditions may help to slow white-tail expansion, reduce predator densities, and, by extension, ,lower predation on caribou.
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
In area with increased moose hunting, moose populations dropped by a surprising 70% and caribou survival rates increased by more than 10% - enough that the caribou population stabilized
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Wolves choose to move through linear features when available, and that by doing so they could move two to three times faster than in natural forest.
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Woodland caribou populations in Alberta and BC are declining, and many will be lost without fast management action. To stem the decline in local population loss, intensively applying a cocktail of...
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Ronnie Drever
Maria Strack
Kristy Burke
Learn more about the recent work of two renowned Canadian researchers and how their work has benefited from various collaborations and communication across diverse stakeholder groups
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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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This project is a pilot study to assess the viability of transplantation as a technique to establish reindeer lichens on reclaimed areas of oil sands surface mines in the Athabasca region of Alberta...
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The presentation describes the development and content of the draft Biodiversity Management Framework for the Lower Athabasca Region
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Dr. David Andison is program lead of the fRI Healthy Landscapes program. He begins by explaining the "Why" of ecosystem management and how current approaches to land management fragments the landscape...
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Fin McDermid
Tyrone Bairnes
Melanie Dickie
The Denesųłiné of Cold Lake First Nations (CLFN) are applying both their Indigenous Knowledge and expertise in western science to develop and implement diverse caribou conservation strategies in...
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ABMI is working with the Government of Alberta to develop new methods to estimate caribou numbers, a species that is notoriously hard to count because of their rarity and association with dense forest
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Doug Heard
Mike Gillingham
Robin Steenweg
Resource Date:
September
2012
At the 14th North American Caribou Workshop, held in September 2012, Doug Heard presented results of a management action carried out in the Parsnip River area of BC.
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John Kansas
Mike Charlebois
Hans Skatter
Brady Balicki
Kent England
At the 14th North American Caribou Workshop held in September 2012, John Kansas presented results from research related to caribou in the boreal shield of Saskatchewan.
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Resource Date:
September
2012
At the 14th North American Caribou Workshop held in September 2012, Rob Serrouya presented on recovery strategies being implemented in BC.
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Libby Williamson-Ehlers
Chris Johnson
Dale Seip
Resource Date:
September
2012
At the 14th North American Caribou Workshop, held in September 2012, Libby Williamson-Ehlers presented results of research that recorded the landscape change caused by industrial development in the Peace region of north-eastern BC.
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Jonah Keim
Samuel Wasser
Philip DeWitt
Mark Taper
Subhash Lele
Resource Date:
September
2012
At the 14th North American Caribou Workshop held in September 2012, Jonah Keim presented results of research looking into the impact of nutrition on caribou in the Alberta oil sands region.
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At the 14th North American Caribou Workshop held in September 2012 Steve Gordon reported on the program implemented to augment the population of the South Purcell Mountain carbiou herd.