Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Mathias Mayer
Cindy Prescott
Wafa Abaker
Laurent Augusto
Lauric Cécillon
Gabriel Ferreira
Jason James
Robert Jandl
Klaus Katzensteiner
Jean-Paul Laclau
Jérôme Laganière
Yann Nouvellon
David Paré
John Stanturf
Elena Vanguelova
Lars Vesterdal
Almost half of the total organic carbon (C) in terrestrial ecosystems is stored in forest soils. By altering rates of input or release of C from soils, forest management activities can influence soil...
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Annie Claude Bélisle
Sylvie Gauthier
Hugo Asselin
This study compares the perspectives of Indigenous and scientific communities on environmental changes in boreal landscapes of Quebec, Canada to determine where collaboration between Indigenous...
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Dylan Fraser
Thomas Coon
Michael Prince
Rene Dion
Louis Bernatchez
Despite their dual importance in the assessment of endangered/threatened species, there have been few attempts to integrate traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and evolutionary biology knowledge...
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Catherine Gagnon
Dominique Berteaux
The benefits and challenges of integrating traditional ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge have led to extensive discussions over the past decades, but much work is still needed to...
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Alexander Prichard
Lincoln Parrett
Elizabeth Lenart
Jason Caikoski
Kyle Joly
Brian Person
Resource Date:
August
2020
Barren ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) are distributed in herds that seasonally use specific geographic regions within an annual range, with varying levels of fidelity during different...
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Eleanor Stern
Murray Humphries
Inclusion of local, expert, or Indigenous knowledge about wildlife populations and their habitats can inform wildlife research, while also increasing knowledge holder engagement and support for...
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Gita Ljubicic
Simon Okpakok
Sean Robertson
Rebecca Mearns
Resource Date:
September
2018
A 2018 academic paper focusing on the caribou naming practices of Inuit in Uqsuqtuuq (Gjoa Haven, Nunavut). It suggests management authorities and biologists might better understand local input and...
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Michael Ferguson
Robert Williamson
François Messier
Indigenous peoples possess knowledge about wildlife that dates back many generations. Inuit observations of historical changes in a caribou population on southern Baffin Island, collected from 43...
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Susan Kutz
Sylvia Checkley
Guilherme Verocai
Mathieu Dumond
Eric Hoberg
Rod Peacock
Jessica Wu
Karin Orsel
Karin Seegers
Amy Warren
Arthur Abrams
Climate warming is occurring at an unprecedented rate in the Arctic and is having profound effects on host-parasite interactions, including range expansion. Recently, two species of protostrongylid...
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Thomas Gable
Steve Windels
Wolves ( Canis lupus) can be primary predators of beavers ( Castor canadensis), but little is known about wolf-beaver dynamics. We identified kills from 1 wolf (V009) of the Ash River Pack in...
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Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal neurodegenerative prion disease of cervid species including deer, elk, moose and reindeer. The disease has shown both geographic and species expansion since...
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Eric Post
Christian Pedersen
David Watts
Ecological rarity, characterized by low abundance or limited distribution, is typical of most species, yet our understanding of what factors contribute to the persistence of rare species remains...
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Debra Hopkins
Tara Joly
Harvey Sykes
Almer Waniandy
John Grant
Lorrie Gallagher
Leonard Hansen
Kaitlyn Wall
Peter Fortna
Michelle Bailey
Fort McMurray Métis Elders and land users have observed a decrease in the population density of freshwater mussels (known locally as clams; Unionidae) in the lower Athabasca region (LAR) in recent...
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Authors
Lucas Roscoe
Lucas Roscoe
Rosanna Lamb
Peter Silk
Among the most useful control methods for the defoliating pest spruce budworm is tebufenozide. Tebufenozide is an insect growth regulator that, when ingested, stimulates abnormal and fatal moutling in...
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Authors
Finn Danielsen
Neil Burgess
Andrew Balmford
Paul Donald
Mikkel Funder
Julia Jones
Philip Alviola
Danilo Balete
Tom Blomley
Justin Brashares
Brian Child
Martin Enghoff
Jon Fjeldsa
Sune Holt
Hanne Hubertz
Arne Jensen
Per Jensen
John Massao
Marlynn Mendoza
Yonika Ngaga
Michael Poulsen
Ricardo Rueda
Moses Sam
Thomas Skielboe
Greg Stuart-Hill
Elmer Topp-Jorgensen
Deki Yonten
The monitoring of trends in the status of species or habitats is routine in developed countries, where it is funded by the state or large nongovernmental organizations and often involves large numbers...
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Deborah Jenkins
Nicola Lecomte
James Schaefer
Steffen Olsen
Didier Swingedouw
Steeve Côté
Loıc Pellissier
Glenn Yannic
Global warming threatens to reduce population connectivity for terrestrial wildlife through significant and rapid changes to sea ice. Using genetic fingerprinting, we contrasted extant connectivity in...
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Angelo Filicetti
Jesse Tigner
Scott Nielsen
Katherine Wolfenden
Murdoch Taylor
Paula Bentham
Abstract Seismic lines are linear features created by the oil and gas industry for energy exploration. Though individually narrow, collectively seismic lines are a pervasive management challenge...
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Michael Ferguson
François Messier
Major declines of populations of caribou and reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus) that permanently reside on Arctic tundra have been attributed to short-term inaccessibility of forage through restrictive...
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Trevor Stocki
Mary Gamberg
Lisa Loseto
Eric Pellerin
Lauren Bergman
Jean François Mercier
L. Genovesi
Michael Cooke
B. Todd
Diane Sandles
Jeff Whyte
Xiaowa Wang
Concern from northern communities following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident of March 2011 has prompted a reassessment of the safety of their traditional foods with respect to radioactivity...
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Catherine Gagnon
Sandra Hamel
Don Russell
Todd Powell
James Andre
Michael Svoboda
Dominique Berteaux
Climate change in the Arctic is two to three times faster than anywhere else in the world. It is therefore crucial to understand the effects of weather on keystone arctic species, particularly those...