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Although ecological transitions are expected to be widespread, under even the least-change climate scenario, ecological change is not synonymous with the loss of biodiversity.
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Canada is blessed with abundant forests. From the coast of British Columbia to the island of Newfoundland, Canada is home to 347 million hectares of forest. The 2 Billion Trees Program (2BT) is part...
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N. Kingsbury
A. Lewis-Gibbs
Providing the knowledge needed to mitigate climate change effects and improve forest management, this long-term research by the CWFC could expand the circular bio-economy through high-yield crops that...
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Ressources naturelles Canada
Each year, the Canadian Forest Service (CFS) provides estimates of the amount of carbon in our managed forests and the changes in these amounts over time. Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)...
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Globally, forests play a significant natural role, as they absorb and sequestrate carbon that would otherwise end up in the atmosphere. This carbon sequestration mitigates the phenomenon commonly...
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The primary goal of this study was to develop a climate-sensitive modular-based structural stand density management model for red pine plantations situated within central North America. For a given...
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Wei-Yew Chang
Shuo Wang
Chris Gaston
Julie Cool
Henry An
Barb Thomas
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
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Chris Powter
Richard Dixon
Nicolas Mansuy
Based on 115 respondents, the survey highlights that the R&R economy in Alberta is robust, with 2 056 employees working at least part-time and 1 488 fulltime equivalent positions.
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With climate change, current research predicts an increase in forest fires in the wildland-human interface or WHI; several inhabited areas will be more at risk in the years to come. Despite this...
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Ryan Fisher
Troy Wellicome
Erin Bayne
Ray Poulin
Danielle Todd
Adam Ford
Frequency and intensity of extreme weather has increased against a backdrop of anthropogenic land change. Extreme rainfall during the breeding season reduced reproductive success of burrowing owls.
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N. Kingsbury
A. Lewis-Gibbs
(Fast Tests for Rating and Amelioration of Conifer) – A collaboration among CWFC researchers, academia, government and industry transforms traditional tree breeding programs by improving genetic...
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Christopher Shank
Erin Bayne
The Alberta Ferruginous Hawk Recovery Plan 2009 – 2014 identifies climate change as a factor potentially threatening the recovery of the species in Alberta.
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Michael Wulder
David Roy
Volker Radeloff
Thomas Loveland
Martha Anderson
David Johnson
Sean Healey
Zhe Zhu
Theodore Scambos
Nima Pahlevan
Matthew Hansen
Noel Gorelick
Christopher Crawford
Jeffrey Masek
Txomin Hermosilla
Joanne White
Alan Belward
Crystal Schaaf
Curtis Woodcock
Justin Huntington
Leo Lymburner
Patrick Hostert
Feng Gao
Alexei Lyapustin
Jean-Francois Pekel
Peter Strobl
Bruce Cook
Since 1972, the Landsat program has been continually monitoring the Earth, to now provide 50 years of digital, multispectral, medium spatial resolution observations. Over this time, Landsat data were...
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Samuel Royer-Tardif
Laura Boisvert-Marsh
Julie Godbout
Nathalie Isabel
Isabelle Aubin
Adaptive capacity, one of the three determinants of vulnerability to climate change, is defined as the capacity of species to persist in their current location by coping with novel environmental...
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Ressources naturelles Canada
The Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS3) was developed by Natural Resources Canada’s Canadian Forest Service (CFS) to meet the operational-scale, forest carbon accounting needs...
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Forests are part of a living system where carbon is continually captured from and emitted to the atmosphere. Calculating the impact of human actions on forest carbon is a complex, but critically...
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Canada has committed to cut its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Each year...
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J.E. Hurley
J.A. Loo
P. DesRochers
H.E. Hirvonen
Highlights Invasive alien insect and disease species are of increasing concern to the health and economic viability of the forest ecosystems within the ecozone. Brown spruce longhorn beetle, an alien...
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E.A. Allen
R.W. Garbutt
H.E. Hirvonen
H. Pinnell
Highlights In 2003, mountain pine beetle infested an area of over 4 million ha within British Columbia. Almost all of this infestation occurred within the pine forests of the Montane Cordillera...
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
The Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS3) was developed by Natural Resources Canada’s Canadian Forest Service (CFS) to meet the operational-scale, forest carbon accounting needs...