Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Boreal peatland restoration through partial removal of an oil and gas well pad Murdoch McKinnon, University of Waterloo Peatlands cover over 30% of the landscape on Canada’s Western Boreal Plains...
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Jurjen van der Sluijs
Glen Mackay
Leon Andrew
Naomi Smethurst
Thomas Andrews
Abstract Indigenous peoples of Canada’s North have long made use of boreal forest products, with wooden drift fences to direct caribou movement towards kill sites as unique examples. Caribou fences...
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GRID-Arendal
Levi Westerveld
Tiina Kurvits
T. Schoolmeester
Oda Mulelid
Torjus Eckhoff
Pier Overduin
Michael Fritz
Hugues Lantuit
Björn Alfthan
A. Sinisalo
Frederieke Miesner
L.-K. Viitanen
NUNATARYUK Consortium
Resource Date:
October
2023
This atlas is an attempt to translate and consolidate the available knowledge on permafrost. It is a timely book suffused with the compelling enthusiasm of its authors and contributors. Close to a...
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We conducted a full peatland assessment using the new criteria on a restored well pad near Peace River, Alberta. In 2012, mineral overburden was removed along with geo-textile and the buried peat was...
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In 2013, we completed the last year of data collection for the project. Across the project’s three years, we collected GPS data from 57 female caribou, 19 wolves (Canis lupus) and 19 black bears...
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Resource Date:
March
2021
This report describes an assessment of the evidence for a conservation breeding program being proposed by Parks Canada to recover threatened woodland caribou populations in Jasper National Park. This...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures
With few exceptions, permeability across in situ developments was the main factor affecting caribou movement. Relationship was non-linear, suggesting a minimum threshold of permeability is needed
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures
Salmo Consulting
At current levels of industrial development, pipelines and linear features have a very small negative effect on caribou populations compared to the high levels of predation.
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Authors
Mathieu Leblond
Jacqueline Frair
Daniel Fortin
Christian Dussault
Jean-Pierre Ouellet
Réhaume Courtois
Resource Date:
September
2011
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Caroline Dolant
Benoit Montpetit
A. Langlois
Ludovic Brucker
O. Zolina
Cheryl Johnson
A. Royer
Paul Smith
Resource Date:
April
2018
Study investigates a die-off of 50 Arctic Barren Ground caribous on Prince Charles Island (Nunavut, Canada), in the summer of 2016, using passive microwave observations.
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There is insufficient functional habitat to maintain and increase current caribou distribution and population growth rates within the Athabasca Landscape area. Boreal caribou will not persist for more...
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Michelle Knaggs
Samuel Haché
Scott Nielsen
Rhiannon Pankratz
Erin Bayne
Resource Date:
December
2020
Research Highlights: The effects of fire on birds in the most northern parts of the boreal forest are understudied. We found distinct differences in bird communities with increasing fire severity in...
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Christian Dussault
Véronique Pinard
Jean-Pierre Ouellet
Réhaume Courtois
Daniel Fortin
Resource Date:
September
2012
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Mathieu Leblond
Christian Dussault
Jean-Pierre Ouellet
Resource Date:
August
2012
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Sari Holopainen
Elmo Miettinen
Veli-Matti Väänänen
Petri Nummi
Hannu Pöysä
Wetlands belong to the globally most threatened habitats, and organisms depending on them are of conservation concern. Wetland destruction and quality loss may affect negatively also boreal breeding...
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Denys Yemshanov
Robert Haight
Ning Liu
Robert Rempel
Frank Koch
Art Rodgers
When adopted, wildlife protection policies in Canadian forests typically cover large areas and affect multiple economic agents working in these landscapes. Such measures are likely to increase the...
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Government of Northwest Territories
A website giving information on the barren-ground herds in the NWT. This resource and others can be found on the Northern Caribou Canada website. To find more related resources click here.
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Aneta Spyra
Anna Cieplok
Mariola Krodkiewska
Beaver-created ponds constitute an important element of small water retention in forest catchments and preserving biodiversity as breeding sites for vertebrates and invertebrates. In many areas, these...
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Doug MacNearney
Karine Pigeon
Laura Finnegan
Anthropogenic disturbance like oil and gas development is thought to negatively affect boreal caribou through displacement and degradation of habitat, and through creation of favourable conditions for...
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Stephanie Peacock
Susan Kutz
Bryanne Hoar
Peter Molnar
An academic paper reporting on combined experimentation and modeling to try to assess the effects of climate change on a common caribou/reindeer gut parasite.