Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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K.L. Webster
P.W. Hazlett
S.D. Yanni
S.A. Nelson
B.K. Webber
K.H.Y. Chan
F. Norouzian
S.V. Phippen
The Turkey Lakes Watershed (TLW) study is a federal, interdepartmental study established in 1979 to investigate the effects of acid rain on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The 10.5 km2 watershed...
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Mounding is a highly versatile technique for addressing site conditions that may limit forest recovery on a wide range of reclamation sites. The technique is particularly useful on wet and cool sites...
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A common goal of reclamation in the boreal forest is to establish diverse, native plant communities that are suited to the site's conditions and are on track to become a forest. Regeneration planning...
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Reclaiming industrial sites in Alberta's boreal forest is not always a straightforward process. The footprints left by infrastructure and equipment are often characterized by compacted mineral soils...
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C.E. Smyth
A.J. Dugan
M. Olguin
R.A. Birdsey
C. Wayson
A. Alanís
W.A. Kurz
Managing forests and forest products to help mitigate climate change was quantified in three coordinated studies involving six regions within North America. Each country-specific study examined...
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The AWC decided to investigate the main risks and opportunities for water management in the province through the Alberta Water Futures project.
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Amanda Schoonmaker
Jean-Marie Sobze
Erin Fraser
Eckehart Marenholtz
Ann Smreciu
Chris Powter
Marshall Mckenzie
The purpose of this document is to review traditional and alternative systems of seed and nursery stock treatment and delivery for use in oil sands reclamation. Treatment systems are considered those...
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This report identifies historical, annual and open water, low flow sequences for 13 stations in the Athabasca River Basin which can be used to determine management guidelines for the River basin
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Elizaveta Petelina
Alexey Klyashtorin
Tamara Yankovich,
Our research was focused on biochar application for revegetation purposes under northern Saskatchewan conditions. The Gunnar Mine Site, located on the northern shore of the Athabasca Lake, was used as...
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Forest biomass is the second-largest renewable energy resource in Canada, representing a major pool in the global carbon budget, but better estimates of forest biomass are needed. In the 1980s...
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Thomas Noland
Mamdouh Abou-Zaid
Canada yew (Taxus canadensis Marsh.) is a native evergreen shrub found in most of Ontario that contains anticancer compounds called taxanes in its needles, bark, and roots. In 2004, a research project...
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Between 1960 and 1966, 21 planting and 14 seeding trials were established to convert aspen stands to spruce-aspen mixedwoods in three Manitoba Forest Management Sections. Scalped strips, varying in...
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Resource Date:
December
2014
With many boreal caribou population ranges across Canada in non-self sustaining condition, habitat restoration has become an increasing imperative for recovery of this species at risk. With decades...
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This report discusses the results of a study of 60 black spruce ( Picea mariana [Mill.] B.S.P.) paperpot seedlings, of which half were planted with the paper container removed. Planting was done on a...
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This report documents the 15-year growth response of a Douglas-fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb) Franco) stand to thinning and urea fertilization. The initial treatments were carried out when the...
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A.Y. Omule
A.K. Mitchell
W.L. Wagner
The Canadian Forest Service’s Shawnigan Lake Project (SLP) main experiment was established in 1971–1972 to study the effects of fertilizing and thinning 24-year-old coastal Douglas-fir ( Pseudotsuga...
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The need for tree species selection on a site specific basis to regenerate the province’s forests is now recognized throughout British Columbia. However, little research has been done to assess the...
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A. Lalumière
J.A. Trofymow
Fine root and ectomycorrhizal root density and biomass were quantified in 2003 and 2004 by sequential soil coring in a 54-year old second-growth stand and 3- and 14-year-old third-growth stands of...
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Cindy Shaw
D.R. Hoffman
M.F. Voicu
S.J. Kull
C. McNalty
In the oil sands region of Alberta, governments and industry have asked for tools to assess the recovery of forest ecosystems after resource extraction and land reclamation. The forest floors, which...
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In 2017-2018, Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) partnered with the Canadian Forest Service - Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) to develop a suite of extension products. These products...