Land Management Search Results
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Quinn Barber
Marc‐André Parisien
Ellen Whitman
Diana Stralberg
Chris Johnson
Martin‐Hugues St‐Laurent
Evan DeLancey
David Price
Dominique Arseneault
Xianli Wang
Mike Flannigan
Boreal woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) are currently listed as threatened in Canada, with populations in the province of Alberta expected to decline as much as 50 percent over the next 8...
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Sarah Wilkinson
Anne Naeth
Amalesh Dhar
Nature-based, low technology wastewater treatment systems can benefit small and remote communities. Adding a constructed floating wetland (CFW) to waste stabilization ponds can enhance treatment...
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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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Denys Yemshanov
Robert Haight
Frank Koch
Marc-André Parisien
Tom Swystun
Quinn Barber
Cole Burton
Salimur Choudhury
Ning Liu
Exploration for belowground oil and gas deposits in boreal forests of western Canada involves the creation of seismic lines, which are linear disturbances where seismic equipment operates. Seismic...
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Geneviève Faille
Christian Dussault
Jean-Pierre Ouellet
Daniel Fortin
Réhaume Courtois
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
Claude Dussault
Resource Date:
November
2010
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This study describes biomass production, colony formation, and clonal spread via root stems of a wide-ranging North American willow species, Salix interior (INT), one of the few willows that can...
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Hans Skatter
John Kansas
Michael Charlebois
Brady Balicki
Resource Date:
February
2014
In boreal forests, wildfire is a dominant ecological process that affects the distribution and abundance of terrestrial lichens, the principal winter food for Woodland Caribou ( Rangifer tarandus...
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Jeffrey Ball
Péter Sólymos
Fiona Schmiegelow
Samuel Hache
Jim Schieck
Erin Bayne
Understanding factors that affect the distribution and abundance of species is critical to developing effective management plans for conservation. Our goal was to quantify the distribution and...
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Chris Powter
Neil Chymko
Gordon Dinwoodie
Darlene Howat
Arnold Janz
Ryan Puhlmann
Tanya Richens
Don Watson
Heather SInton
Kevin Ball
Andy Etmanski
Bruce Patterson
Larry Brocke
Ralph Dyer
Alberta’s industrial land conservation and reclamation program developed over 48 yr from an initial focus on surface debris removal and safety to increasing emphasis on returning ecological function
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Rebecca Rooney
Lee Foote
Naomi Krogman
John Pattison
Matthew Wilson
Suzanne Bayley
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Richard Schneider
Erin Bayne
Our climate envelope projections for the 2080s indicate that virtually all reserves will, in time, be comprised of different ecosystem types than today.
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A. Wotherspoon
N. Thiffault
R.L. Bradley
Scarification is a mechanical site preparation technique designed to create microsites that will favor the growth of planted tree seedlings after clearcutting. However, the positive growth response of...
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James Hammond
Philip Hoffman
Brad Pinno
Jaime Pinzon
Jan Klimaszewski
Dustin Hartley
Species loss caused by anthropogenic disturbance threatens forest ecosystems globally. Until 50 years ago, the major sources of boreal forest disturbance in western Canada were a combination of forest...
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Kimberley Murray
Melanie Bird
Maria Strack
Michael Cody
Bin Xu
Resource Date:
April
2021
This article outlines the results of monitoring two restored oil sands exploration sites, and discusses the effectiveness of treatments on tree recovery and greenhouse gas emissions.
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Bin Xu
Line Rochefort
Melanie Bird
Bhupesh Khadka
Maria Strack
The prompt introduction and establishment of peatland donor species through moss layer transfer technique was crucial to the overall re-establishment of peatland vegetation.
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This study describes biomass production, colony formation, and clonal spread via root stems of a wide-ranging North American willow species, Salix interior (INT), one of the few willows that can...
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Saraswati Saraswati
Yubraj Bhusal
Andrew Trant
Maria Strack
Peatlands in the western boreal plains of Canada are important ecosystems as they store over two percent of global terrestrial carbon. However, in recent decades, many of these peatlands have been...
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Jeff Bowman
Justina Ray
Audrey Magoun
Devin Johnson
Neil Dawson
Resource Date:
April
2010
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John Major
Alex Mosseler
John Malcolm
Shane Heartz
Salinity tolerance is an important adaptive trait for land reclamation, particularly after petroleum extraction from the Athabasca oil sands “gigaproject” in western Canada. We compared survival...
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Anna Dabros
Matthew Pyper
Guillermo Castilla
The oil and gas industry has grown significantly throughout the boreal and arctic ecosystems of North America. A major feature of the ecological footprint of oil and gas exploration is seismic lines...