Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Julie Godbout
Marie-Claude Gros-Louis
Manuel Lamothe
Nathalie Isabel
The speed and magnitude of global change will have major impacts on riparian ecosystems, thereby leading to greater forest vulnerability. Assessing species’ adaptive capacities to provide relevant...
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Katherine Baillie-David
John Volpe
Cole Burton
Jason Fisher
Conserving endangered species sometimes involves killing their predators. In the case of Nearctic wolves (Canis lupus), rarely are lethal control measures examined for ancillary effects on predator...
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Jonathan Price
Colin McCarter
William Quinton
Peatlands are wetlands with soil comprised of undecomposed remains of plants that accumulate in such a way that both responds to and controls the flux and storage of surface water and groundwater, as...
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Melanie Dickie
Robert Serrouya
Marcus Becker
Craig DeMars
Michael Noonan
Robin Steenweg
Stan Boutin
Adam Ford
Anthropogenic habitat alteration and climate change are two well-known contributors to biodiversity loss through changes to species distribution and abundance; yet, disentangling the effects of these...
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Robert Serrouya
Melanie Dickie
Craig DeMars
Meike Wittmann
Stan Boutin
Resource Date:
December
2020
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Mariana Nagy-Reis
Melanie Dickie
Anna Calvert
Mark Hebblewhite
Dave Hervieux
Dale Seip
Sophie Gilbert
Oscar Venter
Craig DeMars
Stan Boutin
Robert Serrouya
Habitat loss is often the ultimate cause of species endangerment and is also a leading factor inhibiting species recovery. For this reason, species-at-risk legislation, policies and plans typically...
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Paula Bentham
Brian Coupal
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Édouard Bélanger
Mathieu Leblond
Steeve Côté
Resource Date:
November
2018
We fitted collars on 35 adult caribou to assess seasonal habitat selection at 2 spatial scales, current and future population trends, and interactions with the neighboring migratory caribou herd.
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Bart Peeters
Vidar Grøtan
Marlène Gamelon
Vebjørn Veiberg
Aline Lee
John Fryxell
Steve Albon
Bernt-Erik Sæther
Steinar Engen
Steinar Engen
Leif Loe
Brage Hansen
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February
2022
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Kristen Bondo
Bryan Macbeth
Helen Schwantje
Karin Orsel
Diane Culling
Brad Culling
Morten Tryland
Ingebjørg Nymo
Susan Kutz
Boreal woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) are listed as threatened across Canada, and a basic understanding of their health status is lacking. From December 2012 to April 2013, we...
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Rebecca Taylor
Micheline Manseau
Sonesinh Keobouasone
Peng Liu
Gabriela Mastromonaco
Kristen Solmundson
Allicia Kelly
Nicholas Larter
Mary Gamberg
Helen Schwantje
Caeley Thacker
Jean Polfus
Leon Andrew
Dave Hervieux
Deborah Simmons
Paul Wilson
High intra-specific genetic diversity is associated with adaptive potential, which is key for resilience to global change. However, high variation may also support deleterious alleles through genetic...
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Åshild Pedersen
Eeva Soininen
Brage Hansen
M. Le Moullec
L.E. Loe
Ingrid Paulsen
Isabell Eischeid
S.R. Karlsen
E. Ropstad
Audun Stien
Arnaud Tarroux
Hans Tømmervik
Virve Ravolainen
Abstract Understanding drivers of space use and habitat selection is essential for management and conservation, especially under rapid environmental change. Here, we develop summer and winter habitat...
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Joshua Miller
Brooke Crowley
Clément Bataille
Eric Wald
Abigail Kelly
Madison Gaetano
Volker Bahn
Patrick Druckenmiller
Resource Date:
January
2021
Accumulations of shed caribou antlers ( Rangifer tarandus) are valuable resources for expanding the temporal scope with which we evaluate seasonal landscape use of herds. Female caribou shed their...
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Dominique Boucher
Sylvie Gauthier
Nelson Thiffault
William Marchand
Martin Girardin
Climate change is projected to increase fire severity and frequency in the boreal forest, but it could also directly affect post-fire recruitment processes by impacting seed production, germination...
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Hannah McKenzie
Evelyn Merrill
Raymond Spiteri
Mark Lewis
In areas of oil and gas exploration, seismic lines have been reported to alter the movement patterns of wolves (Canis lupus). We developed a mechanistic first passage time model, based on an...
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Sabrina Plante
Christian Dussault
Julien Richard
Steeve Côté
Resource Date:
August
2018
A 2018 academic paper to assess the effects of human disturbance on barren-ground caribou herds. This study focuses on the Leaf River and George River herds in northern Quebec and Labrador. The paper...
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Authors
Chao Zhang
Yumei Li
Xiaoyu Hu
Xiaofan Ma
Wei Jia
Kai Liu
Yonggang Nie
Abstract Aim: Understanding changes in the behaviour of threatened species responding to rapidly increasing human disturbances is critical for biodiversity conservation. Here, we synthesize a meta...
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Hanna Blåheda
Miguel San Sebastián
In 2006, a British mining company started the process of extracting ore from Gállok/Kallak, in Swedish Sápmi. These grounds are used all year round for reindeer herding by the Sámi community...
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Chloé Martineau
Alexandre Langlois
Isabelle Gouttevin
Erin Neave
Cheryl Johnson
In this article, the researchers 1) investigate whether a snow model adapted for the Antarctic (SNOWPACK) can produce snow simulations relevant to Canadian High Arctic conditions, and 2) test snow...
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Jonas Mortelmans
Anne Felsberg
Gabriëlle De Lannoy
Sander Veraverbeke
Robert Field
Niels Andela
Michel Bechtold
The Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) system, even though originally developed and calibrated for an upland Jack pine forest, is used globally to estimate fire danger for any fire environment. However...