Land Management Search Results
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Wei-Yew Chang
Chris Gaston
Julie Cool
Barb Thomas
Genomics-assisted tree breeding (GATB) is an emerging biotechnology method that has the potential to produce improved planting stock in selected traits, such as greater volume or higher wood quality...
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C.E. Smyth
A.J. Dugan
M. Olguin
R.A. Birdsey
C. Wayson
A. Alanís
W.A. Kurz
Managing forests and forest products to help mitigate climate change was quantified in three coordinated studies involving six regions within North America. Each country-specific study examined...
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Dennis Cook
Jerald Jacobson
Study designed to develop an analysis model which would produce statistically reliable estimates of visibility bias and total population
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Claire Depardieu
Martin Girardin
Simon Nadeau
Patrick Lenz
Jean Bousquet
Nathalie Isabel
Drought intensity and frequency are increasing under global warming, with soil water availability now being a major factor limiting tree growth in circumboreal forests. Still, the adaptive capacity of...
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Natalie Shelby-James
Sarah Thacker
Chris Powter
Paul Fuellbrandt
Tomislav Hengl
Leandro Parente
Objective is to work collaboratively with soil data users to develop the Alberta Background Soil Quality System (ABSQS) as a tool to assist industry and government in environmental management
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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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Intercontinental Engineering of Alberta Ltd.
A collection of technical working papers that helped inform the final report and recommendations
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Martin Girardin
Nathalie Isabel
Xiao Jing Guo
Manuel Lamothe
Isabelle Duchesne
Patrick Lenz
Assisted gene flow between populations has been proposed as an adaptive forest management strategy that could contribute to the sequestration of carbon. Here we provide an assessment of the mitigation...
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Marcus Becker
Dave Huggard
Melanie Dickie
Camille Warbington
Jim Schieck
Emily Herdman
Robert Serrouya
Stan Boutin
Estimating animal abundance and density are fundamental goals of many wildlife monitoring programs. Camera trapping has become an increasingly popular tool to achieve these monitoring goals due to...
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Tyler Searls
X. Zhu
D.W. McKenney
R. Mazumder
J. Steenberg
G. Yan
F.-R. Meng
Climate has a considerable influence on tree growth. Forest managers benefit from the empirical study of the historic relationship between climatic variables and tree growth to support forest...
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H. Yau
K.L. Murphy
P.L. Timpany
Once the composite model is calibrated and tested, it would predict mass loading or concentration of a parameter at any point along the study area for different future development scenarios
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Gordon Macdonald
Alfred Rademacher
Changes in effluent loadings at the two pulp mills and an increase in river flows in the lower Athabasca Basin accounted for some noticeable improvements in water quality from that reported in 1990
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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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Piotr Tompalski
Joseph Rakofsky
Nicholas Coops
Joanne White
Alexander Graham
Kyle Rosychuk
Airborne laser scanning (ALS) and digital aerial photogrammetry (DAP) have both been demonstrated as reliable sources of information on forest stand inventory attributes. The increasing availability...
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Christopher Shank
Amy Nixon
This report provides a broad overview of how Alberta species are likely to be affected by climate change by the 2050s. Amphibians were consistently found to be the most vulnerable to climate change
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Diana Stralberg
Erin Bayne
Steven Cumming
Péter Sólymos
Samantha Song
Fiona Schmiegelow
For some boreal songbirds, limits to forest growth and succession may result in dramatic reductions in suitable habitat over the next century.
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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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Qihua Huang
Hao Wang
Mark Lewis
Previous work has considered the effect of a toxin on the population dynamics of a single trophic level, such as fish, we focus on the impacts of toxins on the population dynamics of aquatic food webs
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Xiaomei Li
Yongsheng Feng
A one dimensional approach was used to model the evaporation process from fine tails. Understanding the complex interactions among the solids, water and external atmospheric demand is required
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Amy Darling
Carol Stefan
Corey De La Mare
Canada’s boreal forest is important habitat for many North American birds, which play a vital role in the health of forests, and provide ecosystem services. Expanding human development in northern...