Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
These results suggest that restoring caribou habitat to nearly unaltered conditions may help to slow white-tail expansion, reduce predator densities, and, by extension, ,lower predation on caribou.
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
In area with increased moose hunting, moose populations dropped by a surprising 70% and caribou survival rates increased by more than 10% - enough that the caribou population stabilized
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Wolves choose to move through linear features when available, and that by doing so they could move two to three times faster than in natural forest.
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Woodland caribou populations in Alberta and BC are declining, and many will be lost without fast management action. To stem the decline in local population loss, intensively applying a cocktail of...
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Diane Culling
Deborah Cichowski
This scientific review was prepared for the B.C. Oil and Gas Research Innovation Society (Victoria, B.C.). In 2010, the Ministry of Environment (MOE) completed the Scientific Update for the Boreal...
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Isabelle Schmelzer
Keith Lewis
John Jacobs
Sara McCarthy
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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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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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A resource to improve understanding of wetlands in the Bow River region to promote conservation through protection and restoration. Wetlands are natural assets that have a vital role in climate change...
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Aerial surveys and ground investigations were conducted in the spring and summer months from 1975 to 1977 on a breeding population of White Pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) in the Birch Mountains
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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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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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A web page with a variety of other resources centred on the link between the people of Gjoa Haven (Nunavut) and caribou. Resources on the page range from academic papers to a hand-drawn ink calendar...
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Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada
In the summer of 2021, PDAC completed their Caribou Management Strategies: Best Practices for the Mineral Industry study, to analyze the impact of exploration and mining activity on caribou...
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Laura Finnegan
Bryan Macbeth
Doug MacNearney
Karine Pigeon
Terry Larsen
Helen Schwantje
Susan Kutz
Woodland caribou are in decline across their range and although the proximate cause of decline is unsustainable rates of predation, health is increasingly recognised as a factor that may contribute to...
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David Borish
Ashlee Cunsolo
Jamie Snook
Inez Shiwak
Michele Wood
HERD Caribou Project Steering Committee
Ian Mauro
Cate Dewey
Sherilee Harper
Examines the critical interplay between cultural continuity and adaptive capacity for responding to ecological uncertainty based on an Inuit-led, multi-year, multi-media qualitative and visual media
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Mathieu Leblond
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
Steeve Côté
Background: Freshwater lakes and rivers of the Northern Hemisphere have been freezing increasingly later and thawing increasingly earlier during the last century. With reduced temporal periods during...
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Bonnie Drozdowski
Chris Powter
Heather Tokay
Dean MacKenzie
Bin Xu
Workshop summary of discussions to inform a path forward for a policy framework that provided clarity on the process to request a change in land use and the criteria for evaluating the requests.
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Bonnie Drozdowski
Chris Powter
Heather Tokay
Dean MacKenzie
Kevin Renkema
Bin Xu
Factors to consider when assessing the ecological implications of a change in land use request (hydrology, cumulative effects and regional considerations, upland function, status of the borrow pit ...
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Chris Powter
Bin Xu
Kevin Renkema
Natalie Shelby-James
Bonnie Drozdowski
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.