Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Threatened woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) have experienced large range recessions and population declines across much of Canada’s boreal forest in the last century and have become a...
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Welcome to MarshWatch! MarshWatch is a new pilot program focused on wetland birds and amphibians for beginners. Virtual webinars along with self-guided activities slowly build your identification...
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Wetland Knowledge Exchange
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November
2023
Cassandra Chabot-Madlung, County of Grande Prairie presents - Wetland Replacement Program: How it Started & Who Can Participate This is a Municipal viewpoint of Alberta Environment and Protected Areas...
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Mapping of oil reserves involves the use of seismic lines (linear disturbances) to determine size of reserves. These linear disturbances fragment forests and in many cases fail to regenerate trees...
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Northern peatlands are significant contributors to global biogeochemical cycles. In Canada alone, peatlands cover over a tenth of the land surface and store over half of the country’s terrestrial...
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Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers
Marcel Kok
Over fifty years of global conservation has failed to bend the curve of biodiversity loss, so we need to transform the ways we govern biodiversity. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity aims to...
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Oil and gas activities in Alberta require disturbing forested lands, among other ecosystems, in order to extract resources. Due to the number of oil and gas sites requiring reclamation, monitoring can...
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Mountain valley bottom peatlands are poorly studied systems, particularly in Alberta, Canada, where the provincial inventory has neither mapped nor characterized them. Nonetheless, these ecosystems...
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Jim Schieck, research scientist at Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures, discusses how cumulative effects are currently being assessed in Alberta. He talks about the pilot study of how to use...
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Video tutorial that lays out the field sampling process for reclaimed wetland assessment from start to finish in easy-to-follow steps and visually clarifies how protocols should be enacted
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Aseniwuche Winewak Nation
A brief video outlining what the Caribou Patrol Program does, who we are and how we came to be.
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ABMI is working with the Government of Alberta to develop new methods to estimate caribou numbers, a species that is notoriously hard to count because of their rarity and association with dense forest
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Gabrielle Coulombe
Libby Ehlers
Jim Herriges
Torsten Bentzen
Mike Suitor
Kyle Joly
Mark Hebblewhite
A 1:45 video compilation of video taken from collared caribou in the fortymile herd showing a variety of behaviors including foraging, birthing, and nursing.
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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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I will introduce ABMI’s Ecological Recovery Monitoring program, which is establishing long-term monitoring protocols to assess ecological recovery at certified reclaimed wellsites across Alberta
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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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Ernie Hui gave a keynote address at the CWRA-WPAC joint conference on March 13, 2013. Ernie Hui is the CEO, Environmental Monitoring, for Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development. The...
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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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The presentation describes ABMI's role in collecting monitoring data and how the data can be used in environmental management.
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On 19th June 2023, BirdWatch Ireland hosted an online presentation by Dr. Flo Renou Wilson, peatland expert from University College Dublin. Participants included members of different organisations...