Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Understanding how birds respond to landscape disturbance is key to effective restoration. Two studies used non-invasive microphone arrays to determine the exact locations of singing individuals in the...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
From a caribou’s perspective, seismic lines might be considered effectively ‘restored’—that is, the additional risk associated with them might be considered negligible—once vegetation reaches 50 cm
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Jocelyn Gregoire
Richard Hedley
Erin Bayne
Seismic lines have an extensive footprint in Canada's western boreal forest that alter habitat conditions for many species. Seismic lines exist within a range of seral states due to changing practices...
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Scott McNay
Clayton Lamb
Line Giguere
Sara Williams
Hans Martin
Glenn Sutherland
Mark Hebblewhite
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March
2022
Recovering endangered species is a difficult and often controversial task that challenges status-quo land uses. Southern Mountain caribou are a threatened ecotype of caribou that historically ranged...
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Pilot study to assess the use of early successional stands (i.e. those ranging in age from 4 to 17 years) by wildlife (songbirds, small mammals, and ungulates), using a wildlife monitoring protocol
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ERMP Project Advisory Group
This report describes several specialized monitoring techniques that were evaluated during the Ecological Recovery Monitoring Program Pilot.
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Cole Burton
Christopher Beirne
Catherine Sun
Erin Tattersall
Joanna Burgar
Jason Fisher
This project has clearly demonstrated the utility of camera trap surveys for monitoring restoration effectiveness in boreal environments. The cameras facilitated the collection of longitudinal data on...
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Chris Stockdale
Quinn Barber
Amit Saxena
Marc-Andre Parisien
Resource Date:
March
2019
We undertook a wildfire risk assessment across the Cold Lake caribou range where we used the Burn-P3 model to determine: a) burn probability; b) wildfire risk to restored seismic line areas; and c) the effectiveness of mitigation measures. The burn probability of the landscape was highly heterogeneous, and recent large burns and some waterbodies provided “shields” that reduced burn probability on their leeward sides.
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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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Kimberly Dawe
Erin Bayne
Stan Boutin
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Angelo Filicetti
Jesse Tigner
Scott Nielsen
Katherine Wolfenden
Murdoch Taylor
Paula Benthamd
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November
2023
Seismic lines, linear features originating from the oil and gas industry for energy exploration, pose a substantial management challenge due to their collective impact on biogeochemical cycles, plant...
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Christopher Beirne
Catherine Sun
Erin Tattersall
Joanna Burgar
Jason Fisher
Cole Burton
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Nature-based Solutions leverage nature and the power of healthy ecosystems to protect people, optimise infrastructure and safeguard a stable and biodiverse future. Explore topics related to Nature...
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Chantel Markle
Paul Moore
Mike Waddington
Identifying ecosystems resilient to climate and land-use changes is recognized as essential for conservation strategies. However, wetland ecosystems may respond differently to stressors depending on...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Boreal caribou populations are declining across Alberta and much of their Canadian range. Key factors causing this decline include a warming climate along with habitat change from industrial...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Seismic lines and other linear features created by humans are thought to negatively impact woodland caribou. It is estimated that there are c. 100,000 km of conventional seismic lines in caribou...
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Natalie Sánchez
Luis Sandoval
Richard Hedley
Colleen St. Clair
Erin Bayne
Anthropogenic noise can create an acoustic environment detrimental for animals that communicate using acoustic signals. Currently, most studies of noise and wildlife come from traffic noise in cities...
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Anna Dabros
Kellina Higgins
Jaime Pinzon
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Ignacio Aguirre
Glynnis Hood
Cherie Westbrook
Beavers ( Castor canadensis and C. fiber) build dams that modify catchment and pond water balances, and it has been suggested that they can be a nature-based solution for reducing flood hydrographs...
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Fabien St-Pierre
Pierre Drapeau
Martin-Hughes St-Laurent
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February
2022
By showing which forest roads are more used by caribou predators (wolves and bears) and its apparent competitor (moose), our study highlights the importance of considering both road-scale characteristics and the landscape context in which roads are built to prioritize the most detrimental roads to caribou conservation and guide efficient restoration efforts of its habitat.