Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers
Marcel Kok
Over fifty years of global conservation has failed to bend the curve of biodiversity loss, so we need to transform the ways we govern biodiversity. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity aims to...
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Oil and gas activities in Alberta require disturbing forested lands, among other ecosystems, in order to extract resources. Due to the number of oil and gas sites requiring reclamation, monitoring can...
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Brenda Parlee
John Sandlos
David Natcher
Resource Date:
February
2018
The paper describes a “tragedy of open access” occurring in Canada’s north as governments open up new areas of sensitive barren-ground caribou habitat to mineral resource development. A growing body of science and traditional knowledge research points to the adverse impacts of resource development; however, management efforts have been almost exclusively focused on controlling the subsistence harvest of northern Indigenous peoples.
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Amy Nixon
Christopher Shank
Dan Farr
The Biodiversity Management and Climate Change Adaptation project has produced a comprehensive, evidence-based, and original examination of the effects of climate change on Alberta’s biodiversity
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Jennifer Hird
Alessandro Montaghi
Gregory McDermid
Jahan Kariyeva
Brian Moorman
Scott Nielsen
Anne McIntosh
Good statistical agreement between key structural vegetation parameters, such as mean and maximum vegetation height, with PPC metrics successfully predicting most height and tree-diameter metrics.
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Barbara Vuillaume
Julien Richard
Steeve Côté
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
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William Wadsworth
Ave Dersch
Robin Woywitka
Kisha Supernant
The Athabasca Oil Sands (AOS) region of Alberta has one of the densest accumulations of known archaeological sites, and possibly the most archaeological sites at risk, in the country. Expanding...
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Jim Schieck, research scientist at Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures, discusses how cumulative effects are currently being assessed in Alberta. He talks about the pilot study of how to use...
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Video tutorial that lays out the field sampling process for reclaimed wetland assessment from start to finish in easy-to-follow steps and visually clarifies how protocols should be enacted
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ABMI is working with the Government of Alberta to develop new methods to estimate caribou numbers, a species that is notoriously hard to count because of their rarity and association with dense forest
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Shannon White
Jim Herbers
Jasmine Janes
Sarah Depoe
Shannon R. White is the Biodiversity Specialist for the Land-use Framework Regional Planning Branch for ESRD. She discusses Biodiversity Management Frameworks (BMFs), including indicators, triggers...
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I will introduce ABMI’s Ecological Recovery Monitoring program, which is establishing long-term monitoring protocols to assess ecological recovery at certified reclaimed wellsites across Alberta
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Presentation tracks the evolution in technology used to monitor birds by recording their songs, with examples from different regions of the province.
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Ernie Hui gave a keynote address at the CWRA-WPAC joint conference on March 13, 2013. Ernie Hui is the CEO, Environmental Monitoring, for Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development. The...
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Monitoring and conservation of rare species, particularly in the boreal forests of northern Alberta, is a challenge due to knowledge gaps on distribution and abundance of species
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The presentation describes ABMI's role in collecting monitoring data and how the data can be used in environmental management.
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On 19th June 2023, BirdWatch Ireland hosted an online presentation by Dr. Flo Renou Wilson, peatland expert from University College Dublin. Participants included members of different organisations...
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Jason Fisher is the Senior Research Scientist in Wildlife Ecology for Alberta Innovates and his presentation is about White-tailed deer in boreal Alberta. White-tailed deer are expanding their...
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Authors
Manuel Helbig
Tatjana Živković
Pavel Alekseychik
Mika Aurela
Tarek El-Madany
Eugenie Euskirchen
Lawrence Flanagan
Timothy Griffis
Paul Hanson
Juha Hatakka
Carole Helfter
Takashi Hirano
Elyn Humphreys
Ger Kiely
Randy Kolka
Tuomas Laurila
Paul Leahy
Annalea Lohila
Ivan Mammarella
Mats Nilsson
Alexey Panov
Frans-Jan Parmentier
Matthias Peichl
Janne Rinne
Daniel Roman
Oliver Sonnentag
Eeva-Stiina Tuittila
Masahito Ueyama
Timo Vesala
Patrik Vestin
Simon Weldon
Per Weslien
Sönke Zaehle
Resource Date:
August
2022
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
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Egle Köster
Jack Chapman
Janna Barel
Aino Korrensalo
Anna Laine
Harri Vasander
Eeva-Stiina Tuittila
Resource Date:
August
2023
Abstract Climate warming and projected increase in summer droughts puts northern peatlands under pressure by subjecting them to a combination of gradual drying and extreme weather events. The combined...