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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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Jordan Seider
Trevor Lantz
Txomin Hermosilla
Michael Wulder
Jonathan Wang
Temperature increases across the circumpolar north have driven rapid increases in vegetation productivity, often described as ‘greening’. These changes have been widespread, but spatial variation in...
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The Government of Alberta (GoA) is committed to maintaining jobs, building local economies, and supporting strong communities while conserving and wisely managing our public lands. An important part...
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Kelman Wieder
Melanie Vile
Dale Vitt
Kimberli Scott
Bin Xu
James Quinn
Cara Albright
The 140,329 km 2 Athabasca Oil Sands Administrative Area (OSAA), which contains 8982 km 2 of bogs. Since the late 1970s, N emissions from oil sands development in the OSAA have steadily increased...
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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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Ilona Naujokaitis-Lewis
Sarah Endicott
Jessica Guezen
Threatened species lists describe the conservation status of species and are key tools used to inform decisions for biodiversity conservation. These lists are rich in information obtained during...
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A 22 slide presentation (exported as a pdf) providing an overview of effects of wind turbine development on Caribou.
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Nicholas Coops
Rik Nuijten
Kristy Burke
Rebecca Edwards
Joanne White
Darren Pouliot
This video is a recording of the second webinar hosted by the Canadian Conservation and Land Management (CCLM) Knowledge Network on February 17th, 2022. During this presentation, Canada Research Chair...
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Chris Powter
Bin Xu
Kevin Renkema
Natalie Shelby-James
This 2022 Update is a revision of the original Decision Framework and Support Tools report based on stakeholder feedback and a field verification trial.
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Chris Powter
Natalie Shelby-James
Bin Xu
Kevin Renkema
Results of a stakeholder review of the draft Certification of Mineral Soil Pads in the Boreal Region – Decision Framework and Support Tools report and a field verification trial by practitioners.
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Matthew Elmes
Richard Petrone
O. Volik
Jonathan Price
We assessed the hydrological changes to the hydrology of a moderate-rich fen after the construction of a road (perpendicular to flow) in 2003 and a pipeline (obliquely to flow) in 2011. New...
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The Government of Alberta (GoA) is committed to maintaining jobs, building local economies, and supporting strong communities, while conserving and wisely managing our public lands. An important part...
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Authors
Martin Girardin
Xiao Jing Guo
David Gervais
Juha Metsaranta
Elizabeth Campbell
Andre Arsenault
Miriam Isaac-Renton
Edward Hogg
The reduction of freeze exposure with winter warming has consequences for carbon sequestration by northern forests. Quantifying the impact of these changes on tree growth is, however, challenging...
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Canada has committed to cut its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Each year...
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Magali Houde
Eva Krümmel
Tero Mustonen
Jeremy Brammer
Tanya Brown
John Chételat
Parnuna Egede Dahl
Rune Dietz
Marlene Evans
Mary Gamberg
Marie-Josée Gauthier
José Gérin-Lajoie
Aviaja Lyberth Hauptmann
Joel Heath
Dominique Henri
Jane Kirk
Brian Laird
Mélanie Lemire
Ann Lennert
Robert Letcher
Sarah Lord
Lisa Loseto
Gwyneth MacMillan
Stefan Mikaelsson
Edda Mutter
Todd O'Hara
Sonja Ostertag
Martin Robards
Vyacheslav Shad
Arctic Indigenous Peoples are among the most exposed humans when it comes to foodborne mercury (Hg). In response, Hg monitoring and research have been on-going in the circumpolar Arctic since about...
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This report summarizes progress for projects related to in situ reclamation of the Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) Land Environmental Priority Area (EPA) as of 2021 (published March...
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March
2022
This document combines as-of-2021 reports for projects relating to mine site reclamation of the Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) Land Environmental Priority Area (EPA). These research...
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Authors
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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Globally, forests play a significant natural role, as they absorb and sequestrate carbon that would otherwise end up in the atmosphere. This carbon sequestration mitigates the phenomenon commonly...
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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...