Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Maria Tengo
Eduardo Brondizio
Thomas Elmqvist
Pernilla Malmer
Marja Spierenburg
Indigenous and local knowledge systems as well as practitioners’ knowledge can provide valid and useful knowledge to enhance our understanding of governance of biodiversity and ecosystems for human...
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Mary Gamberg
Christine Cuyler
Xiaowa Wang
Two caribou populations in West Greenland were sampled and the kidneys, liver and muscle analyzed for contaminants, including aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead, mercury, selenium and zinc...
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Ophélie Couriot
Matthew Cameron
Kyle Joly
Jan Adamczewski
Mitch Campbell
Tracy Davison
Anne Gunn
Allicia Kelly
Mathieu Leblond
Judy Williams
William Fagan
Anna Brose
Eliezer Gurarie
Warming temperatures and advancing spring are affecting annual snow and ice cycles, as well as plant phenology, across the Arctic and boreal regions. These changes may be linked to observed population...
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David Klein
Lisa Moorehead
Jack Kruse
Stephen Braund
Abstract Attitudes and perceptions toward caribou ( Rangifer tarandus) management practices held by users and managers of the Western Arctic Herd (WAH) in Alaska and the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq herds...
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Magali Houde
Eva Krümmel
Tero Mustonen
Jeremy Brammer
Tanya Brown
John Chételat
Parnuna Egede Dahl
Rune Dietz
Marlene Evans
Mary Gamberg
Marie-Josée Gauthier
José Gérin-Lajoie
Aviaja Lyberth Hauptmann
Joel Heath
Dominique Henri
Jane Kirk
Brian Laird
Mélanie Lemire
Ann Lennert
Robert Letcher
Sarah Lord
Lisa Loseto
Gwyneth MacMillan
Stefan Mikaelsson
Edda Mutter
Todd O'Hara
Sonja Ostertag
Martin Robards
Vyacheslav Shad
Arctic Indigenous Peoples are among the most exposed humans when it comes to foodborne mercury (Hg). In response, Hg monitoring and research have been on-going in the circumpolar Arctic since about...
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Authors
William Tyson
Trevor Lantz
Natalie Ban
Resource Date:
November
2016
Abstract The Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR) in the western Canadian Arctic is experiencing environmental changes that affect subsistence harvesting practices and are of concern to local...
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Authors
Ian Best
Leonie Brown
Che Elkin
Laura Finnegan
Cameron McClelland
Chris Johnson
Context Large-scale natural disturbances are crucial drivers of ecosystem function and composition for many forested ecosystems. In the last century, the prevalence of anthropogenic disturbances has...
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Authors
Rodney Boertje
Craig Gardner
Martha Ellis
Torsten Bentzen
Jeffrey Gross
Resource Date:
January
2017
A 2017 academic paper on the Fortymile herd focusing on wolf predation and the impact of overgrazing on herd size. The paper counters earlier opinions that wolf control (lethal and non-lethal) had a...
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Abstract This paper is about what I have learned about the caribou cycle over the past one hundred and ten years or so, talking to Denesųłıné elders in Fort Resolution, Łutselk’e, and Yellowknife...
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A. Kendrick
P. Lyver
Łutsel Kʼe Dene First Nation
Semi-directed interviews relating to the traditional knowledge (TK) of barren-ground caribou ( Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) movements were conducted with elders and hunters from the Denésôliné...
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Authors
Wenjun Chen
Sylvain Leblanc
Peter White
Christian Prevost
Brian Milakovic
Christine Rock
Greg Sharam
Harry O’Keefe
Laura Corey
Bruno Croft
Anne Gunn
Sjoerd van der Wielen
Adeline Football
Boyan Tracz
Jody Snortland Pellissey
John Boulanger
Resource Date:
March
2017
A 2017 paper assessing the impacts of dust from a mining haul road in the NWT on vegetation used by caribou. The paper concluded that dust from the road negatively affected the vegetation within a...
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Authors
Franck Stefani
Julien Beguin
David Paré
Marie-Josée Morency
Christine Martineau
André Fortin
Nelson Thiffault
Armand Séguin
Introduction: Reforestation of degraded lands in the boreal forest is challenging and depends on the direction and strength of the plant-soil feedback (PSF). Methods: Using a gradient in tree...
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Torben Jensen
Tim Keddy
Derek Sidders
Canada is seeking cost-effective means to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, particularly CO2. One of the promising means is the short rotation woody crops (SRWC) plantation, a silvicultural approach...
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Steven Wilson
Thomas Nudds
Philip Green
Andrew de Vries
Woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou (Gmelin, 1788)) use older forests that provide abundant terrestrial lichen forage and refuge from predators. However, forest structural characteristics...
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Clayton Lamb
Sara Williams
Stan Boutin
Michael Bridger
Deborah Cichowski
Kristina Cornhill
Craig DeMars
Melanie Dickie
Bevan Ernst
Adam Ford
Michael Gillingham
Laura Greene
Douglas Heard
Mark Hebblewhite
Dave Hervieux
Mike Klaczek
Bruce McLellan
Scott McNay
Lalenia Neufeld
Barry Nobert
Joshua Nowak
Agnes Pelletier
Caroline Seip
Carolyn Shores
Robin Steenweg
Shane White
Heiko Wittmer
Mark Wong
Kathryn Zimmerman
Robert Serrouya
Habitat loss is affecting many species, including the southern mountain caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) population in western North America. Over the last half century, this threatened caribou...
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Chris Johnson
Justina Ray
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
Lethal population control has a history of application to wildlife management and conservation. There is debate about the efficacy of the practice, but more controversial is the ethical justification...
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Authors
Claire Singer
Mélanie Routh
Michele Grabke
Leon Andrew
Suzanne Carrière
Aimee Guile
Alestine Andre
Allison Thompson
Deborah Simmons
Kaytlin Cooper
Lynda Yonge
Moise Rabesca
Nicholas Larter
Petter Jacobsen
Rosemin Nathoo
Janet Winbourne
Adam Bathe
Interest in meaningfully including and applying Indigenous knowledge in species at risk assessment processes is growing, but serious procedural challenges remain to achieving this in international...
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John Boulanger
Jan Adamczewski
Tracy Davison
We analyzed 20 data sets from post-calving surveys in the NWT and NU carried out between 2000 and 2015 using the Rivest estimator. We provide a set of working recommendations to optimize field sampling to ensure reliable estimates of herd size using post-calving methods.
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Authors
John Boulanger
Kim Poole
Anne Gunn
Jan Adamczewski
Jack Wierzchowski
Resource Date:
January
2021
The zone of influence (ZOI) is the area in the vicinity of industrial development where avoidance by caribou Rangifer tarandus or other wildlife species is observed. Here we examine ZOI around two...
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Authors
Melanie Dickie
Geoff Sherman
Glenn Sutherland
Robert McNay
Michael Cody
Resource Date:
September
2022
In the paper 'Evaluating the impact of caribou habitat restoration on predator and prey movement', the authors evaluated movement responses of wolves, black bears, caribou, and moose on seismic lines...