Land Management Search Results
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
As of 2015, 29.2% of Alberta is under human footprint, up from 25.7% in 1999—that’s an average increase of about 0.22%, or around 1450 km2 (560 sections) per year.
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Thomas Woodcock
Peter Kevan
Andrea McGraw-Alcock
In the summer of 2009, planning and research began at Waynco Ltd. (a subsidiary of Nelson Aggregate Co.) in Cambridge, which was nearing the final stages of rehabilitation. Although the soil hasn't...
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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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Mounding is a common restoration technique designed to improve microsite conditions for planted seedlings in wetlands. There are a variety of strategies for constructing mounds, though, and how mounds...
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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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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
These results suggest that restoring caribou habitat to nearly unaltered conditions may help to slow white-tail expansion, reduce predator densities, and, by extension, ,lower predation on caribou.
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The Emend for Schools: 360° Video EMEND Tour Teachers Resource is a full lesson plan and 360 immersive and interactive video teaching tool, including a teacher lesson plan and student workbook aligned...
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Alvin First Rider
Emily Herdman
Brett Purdy
Alvin First Rider speaks about his nation's use western science alongside Indigenous Knowledge to bring buffalo back to their historical plains.
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Dr. David Andison is program lead of the fRI Healthy Landscapes program. He begins by explaining the "Why" of ecosystem management and how current approaches to land management fragments the landscape...
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The presentation covers the use of remote sensing in assessing biodiversity and how using covariate data can improve on the interpretation of results
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Alvin First Rider
Justin Bruised head
Truman Big Swallow
Jamison Lucas Russell
Members of the Káínawa – or Blood Tribe – are applying training in western science, alongside their Indigenous Knowledge, to bring buffalo back to their historical habitat in southern Alberta, the...
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Oil sands industry case study evaluated the economic and ecological performance of alternative offset networks targeting either ecologically equivalent areas or regional conservation priorities
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I will demonstrate how data from ABMI can be combined with designed research studies to answer questions at spatial scales and temporal extents that are not possible for a single researcher to achieve
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Shannon White
Jim Herbers
Jasmine Janes
Sarah Depoe
Shannon R. White is the Biodiversity Specialist for the Land-use Framework Regional Planning Branch for ESRD. She discusses Biodiversity Management Frameworks (BMFs), including indicators, triggers...
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The presentation describes the goals of NatureLynx and provides some demonstrations of the mobile and desktop platforms
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Presentation tracks the evolution in technology used to monitor birds by recording their songs, with examples from different regions of the province.
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Monitoring and conservation of rare species, particularly in the boreal forests of northern Alberta, is a challenge due to knowledge gaps on distribution and abundance of species
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An online seminar developed by InnoTech Alberta and Acden Vertex for Indigenous opportunity seekers, the energy industry and service providers.
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The presentation discusses the role of taxonomy in biodiversity monitoring and how natural history museums can be involved
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Jason Fisher is the Senior Research Scientist in Wildlife Ecology for Alberta Innovates and his presentation is about White-tailed deer in boreal Alberta. White-tailed deer are expanding their...