Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Françoise Cardou
Alison Munson
Laura Boisvert-Marsh
Madhur Anand
André Arsenault
Wayne Bell
Yves Bergeron
Isabelle Boulangeat
Sylvain Delagrange
Nicole Fenton
Dominique Gravel
Benoît Hamel
François Hébert
Jill Johnstone
Bright Kumordzi
Ellen Macdonald
Azim Mallik
Anne. McIntosh
Jennie McLaren
Christian Messier
Bill Shipley
Luc Sirois
Nelson Thiffault
Isabelle Aubin
Intraspecific trait variability (ITV) provides the material for species' adaptation to environmental changes. To advance our understanding of how ITV can contribute to species' adaptation to a wide...
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Ilona Kater
Robert Baxter
The survival of reindeer during winter, their period of greatest food stress, depends largely on the abundance and accessibility of forage in their pastures. In Northern Sweden, realized availability...
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Tim Williamson
Mark Johnston
Harry Nelson
Jason Edwards
Canadian forest management agencies have already made significant progress in addressing climate change. Adaptation measures have included undertaking research and completing assessments; implementing...
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Nelson Thiffault
Patricia Raymond
Jean-Martin Lussier
Isabelle Aubin
Samuel Royer-Tardif
Anthony D’Amato
Frédérik Doyon
Benoit Lafleur
Martin Perron
Jean Bousquet
Nathalie Isabel
Sylvie Carles
Patrick Lupien
Annie Malenfant
As part of the Carrefour Forêts 2019 Conference, the forest research branch of Quebec’s Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs and the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre of Natural Resources Canada...
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Jonathan Price
Owen Sutton
Colin McCarter
William Quinton
James Waddington
Pete Whittington
Maria Strack
Rich Petrone
Resource Date:
November
2023
Wetlands are an integral part of the Canadian landscape, providing crucial ecohydrological services with globally significant benefits. Over the past 75 years, Canadian scientists have emerged as...
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Samantha McFarlane
Micheline Manseau
Robin Steenweg
Dave Hervieux
Troy Hegel
Simon Slater
Paul Wilson
Resource Date:
September
2020
Abstract Accurately estimating abundance is a critical component of monitoring and recovery of rare and elusive species. Spatial capture–recapture (SCR) models are an increasingly popular method for...
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John Ryder
Philippa McNeil
Jeff Hamm
Wendy Nixon
Don Russell
Shawn Francis
This study was undertaken to improve understanding of Porcupine caribou herd distribution, movements, and habitat preferences to assist with developing a regional land use plan for the North Yukon...
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Julie Sansoulet
Michèle Therrien
Joseph Delgove
Guilhem Pouxviel
Julie Desriac
Noé Sardet
Jean-Paul Vanderlinden
Objective of this study was to shed light on how the impacts of climate change are currently perceived in the communities of Kanngiqtugaapik, Pangniqtuuq, and Qikiqtarjuaq
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Marc-André Parisien
Denyse Dawe
Carol Miller
Christopher Stockdale
Bradley Armitage
Wildland fire scientists and land managers working in fire-prone areas require spatial estimates of wildfire potential. To fulfill this need, a simulation-modelling approach was developed whereby...
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Melanie Dickie
Branislav Hricko
Christopher Hopkinson
Victor Tran
Monica Kohler
Sydney Toni
Robert Serrouya
Jahan Kariyeva
Abstract Anthropogenic habitat alteration is leading to the reduction of global biodiversity. Consequently, there is an imminent need to understand the state and trend of habitat alteration across...
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Jurjen van der Sluijs
Glen Mackay
Leon Andrew
Naomi Smethurst
Thomas Andrews
Abstract Indigenous peoples of Canada’s North have long made use of boreal forest products, with wooden drift fences to direct caribou movement towards kill sites as unique examples. Caribou fences...
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Don Russell
Michael Svoboda
Jadah Arokium
Dorothy Cooley
Resource Date:
August
2011
While quantitative analyses have traditionally been used to measure overall caribou herd health, qualitative observational data can also provide timely information that reflects what people on the...
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Abstract The paper introduces a new vision advanced by the recent project, Arctic People and Animal Crashes: Human, Climate and Habitat Agency in the Anthropocene (2014–2015) developed at the...
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December
1996
Climatic changes have affected populations of caribou and reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus) at scales ranging from a single winter to tens of thousands of years, and from micro-habitats to entire...
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Kishan Sambaraju
Chantal Côté
Invasions of exotic forest insects and pathogens can devastate evolutionarily naïve habitats and could cause irreversible changes to urban and natural ecosystems. Given the ever-increasing volume of...
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John Pedlar
Daniel McKenney
Emily Hope
Sharon Reed
Jon Sweeney
Oak wilt is a disease that kills oak trees and is caused by a fungus named Bretziella fagacearum. Though not currently found in Canada, our distribution models indicate that suitable climate...
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Brendan Mackey
Carly Campbell
Patrick Norman
Sonia Hugh
Dominick DellaSala
Jay Malcolm
Mélanie Desrochers
Pierre Drapeau
The Canadian boreal forest biome has been subjected to a long history of management for wood production. Here, we examined the cumulative impacts of logging on older forests in terms of area...
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Caroline Dolant
Benoit Montpetit
A. Langlois
Ludovic Brucker
O. Zolina
Cheryl Johnson
A. Royer
Paul Smith
Resource Date:
April
2018
Study investigates a die-off of 50 Arctic Barren Ground caribous on Prince Charles Island (Nunavut, Canada), in the summer of 2016, using passive microwave observations.
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Authors
Alejandro Aleuy
Michele Anholt
Karin Orsel
Fabien Mavrot
Catherine Gagnon
Kimberlee Beckmen
Steeve Côté
Christine Cuyler
Andrew Dobson
Brett Elkin
Lisa-Marie Leclerc
Joëlle Taillon
Susan Kutz
Resource Date:
August
2022
Several caribou ( Rangifer tarandus) populations have been declining concurrently with increases in infectious diseases in the Arctic. Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, a zoonotic bacterium, was first...
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Michelle Knaggs
Samuel Haché
Scott Nielsen
Rhiannon Pankratz
Erin Bayne
Resource Date:
December
2020
Research Highlights: The effects of fire on birds in the most northern parts of the boreal forest are understudied. We found distinct differences in bird communities with increasing fire severity in...