Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Barbara Vuillaume
Julien Richard
Sandra Hamel
Joëlle Taillon
Marco Festa-Bianchet
Steeve Côté
Resource Date:
August
2023
Abstract The decline of most caribou ( Rangifer tarandus) populations underlines the need to understand the determinants of key demographic parameters. In migratory caribou, we have limited...
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Marco Raponi
David Beresford
James Schaefer
Ian Thompson
Philip Wiebe
Arthur Rodgers
John Fryxell
Habitat loss has been implicated in the decline of forest-dwelling caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou), but it is unknown how biting insects, potentially important components of boreal forest habitat...
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Authors
Jesse Tigner
Erin Bayne
Stan Boutin
Resource Date:
January
2014
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
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Trees are constantly exposed to a multitude of micro-organisms, but only a few are capable of causing disease. When trees come under attack from micro-organisms, their primary line of defence is a...
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To make up for timber losses caused by fire, salvage logging of burned timber is an economically attractive option. Improved logging practices could promote the establishment of regeneration while...
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Authors
Frances Stewart
Joshua Nowak
Tatiane Micheletti
Eliot McIntire
Fiona Schmiegelow
Steven Cumming
Resource Date:
August
2020
Abstract: For species at risk, it is important that demographic models be consistent with our most recent knowledge because alternate model versions can have differing predictions for wildlife and...
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Environment and Climate Change Canada
This summary sheet provides a synthesis of two science pieces completed by ECCC: the 2011 meta-analysis of boreal caribou population and habitat condition, and the scientific research to inform...
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Authors
Isabelle Schmelzer
Keith Lewis
John Jacobs
Sara McCarthy
Resource Date:
April
2020
Highlights Boreal caribou persistence has been affected by landscape disturbance and subsequent apparent competition. Climatic conditions also affect caribou via energy gains and losses and indirectly...
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Government of Northwest Territories
Overall, the population of boreal caribou in the NWT is considered stable, but there are declines in some areas of the Dehcho region. This year, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources...
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The boreal mixedwood forest ecosystem includes both coniferous and deciduous tree species and is a common and widespread ecosystem in the Canadian boreal forest resulting from harvesting, forest fires...
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Both aspen and spruce grew on sites with very high salinity and pH deeper in the soil profile (i.e., 40-100cm), so long as surface soils were not highly saline and had adequate moisture and nutrients.
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These fact sheets highlight plant, soil, and water indicators and key ecological benefits of each of the five major wetlands types.
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Authors
Bev Gingras
Stuart Slattery
Kevin Smith
Marcel Darveau
Resource Date:
August
2016
The Canadian and Alaskan boreal zone is one of the most water rich areas in the world, and contains an estimated combined surface water and peatland area the size of Indonesia (∼1.94 million km2)...
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Authors
Clayton Lamb
Roland Willson
Allyson Menzies
Naomi Owens-Beek
Michael Price
Scott McNay
Sarah Otto
Mateen Hessami
Jesse Popp
Mark Hebblewhite
Adam Ford
Endangered species laws effectively prevent species extinction but fall short in restoring abundance for culturally important species. Legal agreements between Indigenous peoples and countries...
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Authors
Clayton Lamb
Roland Willson
Allyson Menzies
Naomi Owens-Beek
Michael Price
Scott McNay
Sarah Otto
Mateen Hessami
Jesse Popp
Mark Hebblewhite
Adam Ford
A new Science paper co-produced by Indigenous and Western authors highlights how Indigenous rights can pick up where endangered species laws fall short in recovering species to culturally-meaningful...
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This publication discusses the restoration of treed peatlands after disturbances caused by oil and gas activities, particularly in areas where seismic lines have been created. Seismic lines are...
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Delayney Brooks
Joseph Nocera
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Alex Mosseler
J.E. Major
D. McPhee
Ten-year-old bur oak ( Quercus macrocarpa Michx.) saplings established on the exposed, infertile, treeless barrens of a former coal mine site in New Brunswick, Canada, were harvested to assess the...
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To make up for timber losses caused by fire, salvage logging of burned timber is an economically attractive option. Improved logging practices could promote the establishment of regeneration while...
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Authors
Pierre Desrochers
Danny Rioux
The continuing spread of butternut canker constitutes the greatest threat to the survival of butternut trees, which have been protected under the Species at Risk Act since 2005. Furthermore, growing...