Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Laura Finnegan
Suzanne Stevenson
Chris Johnson
Tracy McKay
Resource Date:
February
2021
With of goal of understanding how silviculture and harvesting practices might mirror those of natural disturbances, here we summarize research describing differences in responses of caribou and...
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Caribou ( Rangifer tarandus) are affected by density-dependent and -independent processes at various temporal scales. Populations residing on Arctic tundra can be affected by both density-independent...
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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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Anne Gunn
Kim Poole
J. Wierzchowski
Brief 2011 report on the use of Thaidene Nene National Park (NWT) by the Ahiak and Bathurst herds. This resource and others can be found on the Northern Caribou Canada website. To find more related...
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Patrick Walsh
Trevor Goward
Understanding the recovery rate of overgrazed lichen communities has value to mangers of lands in northern regions. We describe lichen community composition and present recovery rate measurements for...
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Hannah Correia
Torkild Tveraa
Audun Stien
Nigel Yoccoz
Global temperatures are increasing, affecting timing and availability of vegetation along with relationships between plants and their consumers. We examined the effect of population density, herd body...
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Nunavut Wildlife Management Board
This 2015 workshop report from the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board is on finding a balance between resource development and caribou in Nunavut. The report includes detailed information on the...
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Mathieu Dumond
Shane Sather
Rob Harmer
The seasonal migration of the Dolphin and Union caribou ( Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) herd between Victoria Island and the mainland (Nunavut/Northwest Territories, Canada) relies on the formation...
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Larry Brocke
Phil Lulman
Dennis Parkinson
Larry Paterson
Cliff Wallis
Government: The Government's perception of successful reclamation may be different than that of the landowner or the operator or any of the other interest groups or all of them. It is not the...
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Tracy Davison
Judy Williams
A 21-page 2016 report on a 2012 aerial survey of Peary caribou and muskoxen on several Arctic islands shared by the NWT and Nunavut. This resource and others can be found on the Northern Caribou...
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If you live in western Canada chances are you’ve seen a seismic line. Narrow corridors cut through the bush, seismic lines facilitate access for people and equipment to conduct geophysical surveys to...
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C.E. Hebert
Mary Gamberg
B.T. Elkin
M. Simon
R.J. Norstrom
The presence of contaminants in the Arctic environment has raised concerns regarding levels in wildlife and possible effects on the health of wildlife populations. In addition, contaminants in wild...
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Rebecca Taylor
Micheline Manseau
Cornelya Klütsch
Jean Polfus
Audrey Steedman
Dave Hervieux
Allicia Kelly
Nicholas Larter
Mary Gamberg
Helen Schwantje
Paul Wilson
Pleistocene glacial cycles influenced the diversification of high- latitude wildlife species through recurrent periods of range contraction, isolation, divergence, and expansion from refugia and...
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Jean-Pierre Ouellet
Douglas Heard
Robert Mulders
This paper is a review of the ecology of two caribou populations inhabiting predator-free northern islands, Coats and Southampton Island. Findings are analyzed in light of the hypothesis that in...
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Deborah Jenkins
Glenn Yannic
James Schaefer
James Conolly
Nicolas Lecomte
This 2018 academic paper suggests that, based on genetics, the Baffin Island population of caribou should be treated as a separate “designatable unit” under the classification system for the Committee...
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Ducks Unlimited Canada, a non-profit private conservation organization, has been involved in the preservation and creation of waterfowl habitat in Canada for 49 years. Project development occurs...
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When I was asked to prepare a presentation on "emerging issues in wildlife habitat reclamation" it quickly occurred to me that the product would be a list of technical issues related to the generation...
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Regional Industry Caribou Collaboration
The Regional Industry Caribou Collaboration (RICC) is a group of energy and forestry companies working collaboratively across tenure and lease boundaries focused on two northeastern Alberta caribou...
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This 2012 publication is adapted from remarks by Yellowknives Dene hunter Fred Sangris. He covers many subjects including the relationship of Dene to the caribou, traditional laws governing relations...
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S. Couturier
Aaron Dale
Bryn Wood
Jamie Snook
Formal report of the results of the 2017 aerial survey of the Torngat Mountains caribou herd.