Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Chris Powter
Natalie Shelby-James
Bin Xu
Kevin Renkema
Results of a stakeholder review of the draft Certification of Mineral Soil Pads in the Boreal Region – Decision Framework and Support Tools report and a field verification trial by practitioners.
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Piotr Tompalski
Joseph Rakofsky
Nicholas Coops
Joanne White
Alexander Graham
Kyle Rosychuk
Airborne laser scanning (ALS) and digital aerial photogrammetry (DAP) have both been demonstrated as reliable sources of information on forest stand inventory attributes. The increasing availability...
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Authors
D. Meidinger
A. Inselberg
C. Cadrin
K.A. Baldwin
The Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC) is an ecological classification of natural and semi-natural Canadian vegetation. The classification is a hierarchical taxonomy, describing...
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Scleroderris canker, a disease caused by the European strain of the fungus Gremmeniella abietina, is highly virulent in red pine ( Pinus resinosa) plantations. When nothing is done to eradicate the...
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Authors
Matthew Elmes
Richard Petrone
Olena Volik
Jonathan Price
Resource Date:
February
2022
Study Region A channel fen in the Athabasca Oil Sands Area, Alberta, Canada Study Focus We assessed the hydrological changes to the hydrology of a moderate-rich fen after the construction of a road...
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Reconstructed soils representing different materials handling and replacement techniques were characterized and variability in chemical and physical properties was assessed
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K. Kong
J.D. Lindsay
Bill McGill
Physical, chemical, and microbiological properties of stored materials were compared with those of fibric moss peat, mesic moss peat, and mesic fen peat samples from undisturbed sites
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Paul Pickell
David Andison
Nicholas Coops
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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This thesis is comprising two studies characterizing nutrient dynamics within the Athabasca Oil Sands region (AOS) of Alberta. The first study simultaneously examined and compared nutrient (nitrogen...
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Christopher Shank
Amy Nixon
This report provides a broad overview of how Alberta species are likely to be affected by climate change by the 2050s. Amphibians were consistently found to be the most vulnerable to climate change
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Mariusz Gałka
Andrei-Cosmin Diaconu
Anna Cwanek
Lars Hedenäs
Klaus-Holger Knorr
Piotr Kołaczek
Edyta Łokas
Milena Obremska
Graeme Swindles
Angelica Feurdean
Rapidly increasing temperatures in high-latitude regions are causing major changes in wetland ecosystems. To assess the impact of concomitant hydroclimatic fluctuations, mineral deposition, and...
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Salix interior Rowlee (INT) is a wide-ranging North American willow from the small taxonomic group Salix section Longifoliae, notable for its ability to form multi-stemmed vegetative stem colonies...
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Forest fire is the primary natural disturbance process influencing the distribution and abundance of terrestrial lichens across ranges of woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou), including the...
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Julien Prunier
Alexandra Carrier
Isabelle Gilbert
William Poisson
Vicky Albert
Joelle Taillon
Vincent Bourret
Steeve Côté
Arnaud Droit
Claude Robert
Rangifer tarandus has experienced recent drastic population size reductions throughout its circumpolar distribution and preserving the species implies genetic diversity conservation. To facilitate...
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Forest floor mineral soil mix had significantly greater soil microbial functional diversity than peat mineral soil mix. CWD increased microbial biomass and microbial functional diversity in both soil
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Alberta Environment and Parks
This code of practice regulates wetland restoration and wetland construction activities as defined in the Code by replacing Water Act approval requirements. Wetland restoration is applied to wetlands...
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R.S. Hunt
B.E. Callan
A. Funk
Forest Pest Leaflets are a series of about eighty publications dealing with insects, tree diseases, and other problems affecting the growth, survival, and general health of forests. Each leaflet...
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Authors
Allen, E.A.
Morrison, D.J.
Wallis, G.
This is the third version of a Canadian Forest Service tree disease identification guide for British Columbia. The first, "Some common tree diseases of British Columbia", by J.E. Bier, was published...
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Evan DeLancey
John Simms
Masoud Mahdianpari
Brian Brisco
Craig Mahoney
Jahan Kariyeva
Developed two wetland inventory style products for a large (397,958 km2) area in the Boreal Forest region of Alberta, Canada, using Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and ALOS DEM data
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Authors
J. Buss
A. Dabros
K. L. Higgins
H. E. J. Hammond
J. Pinzon
D. W. Langor
The industrial footprint of oil and gas extraction in Alberta, Canada dissects the landscape in a network of linear and polygonal disturbances such as roads and well pads. The changes to biotic and...