Land Management Search Results
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Resource Date:
January
2015
This toolkit has been prepared as an operational handbook and is intended to guide implementation of reclamation techniques that will contribute to the restoration of caribou habitat. It is meant to...
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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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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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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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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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Authors
Jian Zhang
Scott Nielsen
Jessica Stolar
Youhua Chen
Wilfried Thuiller
We found that 368 species (24%) may lose on average > 80% of their current suitable climates (habitats), while 539 species (35%) were projected to more than double their current suitable range
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Boreal Avian Modelling Project
Bioclimatic niche models of current avian distribution and density for 80 boreal-breeding songbird species are mapped based on present counts and climate change models
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Kirsten Lees
Tristan Quaife
Rebekka Artz
Myroslava Khomik
Joanna Clark
Resource Date:
February
2015
Peatlands store large amounts of terrestrial carbon and any changes to their carbon balance could cause large changes in the greenhouse gas (GHG) balance of the Earth's atmosphere. There is still much...
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Upland mesic sites showed a relatively strong ability to regenerate on their own (passive restoration), while lowland (bogs and fens) and upland dry sites were slow to recover.
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Amy Nixon
Ryan Fisher
Diana Stralberg
Erin Bayne
Climate suitability projections, and current distribution of grassland and cropland habitats in Alberta suggest that some climate-mediated range expansion of grassland songbirds is possible
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Where forest floor was protected from disturbance, there were approximately 10 times as many aspen sprouts that were at least 3 times as tall as sprouts in the area where floor was stripped & replaced
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Amy Nixon
Christopher Shank
Dan Farr
The Biodiversity Management and Climate Change Adaptation project has produced a comprehensive, evidence-based, and original examination of the effects of climate change on Alberta’s biodiversity
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The presentation describes the development and content of the draft Biodiversity Management Framework for the Lower Athabasca Region
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Authors
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 goal of the program is to develop a set of spatially explicit models that can be used to map the supply and economic value ecosystems goods and services
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The presentation describes ABMI's role in collecting monitoring data and how the data can be used in environmental management.
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This report is intended to provide some adaptation strategies that are focused on management of Burrowing Owls in the face of a changing climate.
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Vulnerability to climate change of more than 170 of Alberta’s native species is assessed on the basis of exposure and sensitivity to change
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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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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.