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Understanding how birds respond to landscape disturbance is key to effective restoration. Two studies used non-invasive microphone arrays to determine the exact locations of singing individuals in the...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
From1999 to 2015, human activity in Alberta visibly converted over 23,000 km2 of native ecosystems into residential, recreational, or industrial landscapes
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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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Jocelyn Gregoire
Richard Hedley
Erin Bayne
Seismic lines have an extensive footprint in Canada's western boreal forest that alter habitat conditions for many species. Seismic lines exist within a range of seral states due to changing practices...
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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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Jean Birks
Yi Yi
Sunny Cho
Emily Taylor
John Gibson
This study was conducted to characterize the composition of polar dissolved organic compounds present in snow and surface waters in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) with the goal of identifying...
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Jean Birks
Yi Yi
Sunny Cho
John Gibson
Rod Hazewinkel
Goal was identifying whether atmospherically-derived organics present in snow are a significant contributor to the organics detected in rivers and lakes in the oil sands region
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D.W. Mayhood
Linda Corkum
Baseline data available on the Muskeg River hydrology, benthic invertebrates, plankton and fish are generally useful, but additional information is desireable
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The present volume evaluates the 1980 monitoring program, and makes suggestions for the conduct of future monitoring studies on the Muskeg River and elsewhere in the AOSERP area
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Chris Powter
Brent Scorfield
Brent Lakeman
Shane Patterson
The development of integrated geomatics and remote sensing technologies for environmental management holds promise to meet economic diversification and effective environmental management.
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James Saracco
Peter Pyle
Danielle Kaschube
Monica Kohler
Christine Godwin
Kenneth Foster
Habitat loss and disturbance from industrial resource development may be contributing to declines in boreal bird populations. We applied hierarchical multi-species models to data from 31 bird species...
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Long-term monitoring of some sites would ultimately be needed to show that recovering wellsites are on a trajectory that consistently leads to full recovery.
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Pilot study to assess the use of early successional stands (i.e. those ranging in age from 4 to 17 years) by wildlife (songbirds, small mammals, and ungulates), using a wildlife monitoring protocol
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Roger DeAbreu
Shane Patterson
Todd Shipman
Chris Powter
NRCan pilot science projects have proven that Earth Observation can provide relevant and valuable information to inform and enhance monitoring and support regulatory frameworks
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There was only very limited evidence of biological responses to increased pollutant content in spite of significantly higher pollutant levels in tissues close to existing industrial developments.
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M.D. Thompson
M.C. Wride
M.E. Kirby
Classification system devised for mapping vegetation and surficial geology from 1:60,000 scale false colour infrared photographs; 1:50 000 base maps plus a vegetation and a surficial geology overlay
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Ground surveys of vegetation and surficial geology generally confirmed that the classification systems used in the mapping accurately described and defined the ecological habitat features
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ERMP Project Advisory Group
Monitoring protocols for forested land wellsites to determine if a reclaimed site has returned to similar structure and function as found in a representative undisturbed reference area.
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Three workshops were held to examine a suite of vegetation, soil, and habitat indicators that could potentially be used to monitor recovery in a long-term reclamation monitoring program
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ERMP Project Advisory Group
This report provides the monitoring protocols for forested land wellsites.