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The Natural Regions and Subregions classification represents the state-of-the-art in ecological land classification in Alberta. This classification provides a valuable baseline for resource management...
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Authors
Kishan Sambaraju
Chantal Côté
Invasions of exotic forest insects and pathogens can devastate evolutionarily naïve habitats and could cause irreversible changes to urban and natural ecosystems. Given the ever-increasing volume of...
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The boreal mixedwood forest ecosystem includes both coniferous and deciduous tree species and is a common and widespread ecosystem in the Canadian boreal forest resulting from harvesting, forest fires...
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Dominique Boucher
Sylvie Gauthier
Nelson Thiffault
William Marchand
Martin Girardin
Climate change is projected to increase fire severity and frequency in the boreal forest, but it could also directly affect post-fire recruitment processes by impacting seed production, germination...
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Resource Date:
March
2022
In the discontinuous permafrost zone, thermokarst lakes and thermal erosion are widespread and common permafrost thaw-related phenomena. Thermokarst features are indicative of thaw sensitive...
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Shauna-Lee Chai
Amy Nixon
Scott Nielsen
Assessed 16 potentially new invasive plant species not yet present in Alberta for their invasiveness and climate change-related risk
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It is generally recognized that plants are genetically adapted to the prevailing climate. Planting stock is often moved across environmental gradients with little knowledge of the ecological risks...
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Authors
K.A. Baldwin
L. Allen
S. Basquill
K. Chapman
D. Downing
N. Flynn
W. Mackenzie
M. Major
W.J. Meades
D. Meidinger
C. Morneau
J.-P. Saucier
J. Thorpe
Vegetation Zones of Canada: a Biogeoclimatic Perspective maps Canadian geography in relation to regional climate, as indicated by vegetation patterns. Compared to previous similar national-scale...