Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Tracy Lee
Lea Randall
Nicole Kahal
Holly Kinas
Vanessa Carney
Heather Rudd
Tyne Baker
Ken Sanderson
Irena Creed
Axel Moehrenschlager
Danah Duke
Resource Date:
March
2022
Cities worldwide are expanding in area and human population, posing multiple challenges to amphibian populations, including habitat loss from removal of wetlands and terrestrial upland habitat...
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Laura Neary
Casey Remmer
Jadine Krist
Brent Wolfe
Roland Hall
Recent drawdown of the delta’s abundant shallow lakes and rivers has deteriorated vital habitat for wildlife and impaired navigation routes. Here, we report continuous measurements at ~50 lakes during...
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Seismic lines are an essential operation in the exploration for natural resources, providing more efficient and safe travel through a variety of topography with predictable costs associated. However...
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Resource Date:
January
2016
This talk explores what needs to inform road construction decisions, including evaluating where roads should be built and what practices should be used based on peat conditions.
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Saraswati Saraswati
Christopher Parsons
Maria Strack
This study investigated the impacts of resource access roads on soil enzyme activities in contrasting forested boreal peatlands (bog and fen).
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Jason Fisher
Cole Burton
Luke Nolan
Michelle Hiltz
Laurence Roy
White-tailed deer expansion in the boreal forest is due to an interaction between less severe winters following climate change, and a substantial forage subsidy provided by widespread anthropogenic features
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Monitoring has been ongoing in Algar since 2011. Monitoring data along with supporting field observations information suggest that treatments may not be successfully placing linear disturbance within...
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Amanda Schoonmaker
Jean-Marie Sobze
Erin Fraser
Eckehart Marenholtz
Ann Smreciu
Chris Powter
Marshall Mckenzie
The purpose of this document is to review traditional and alternative systems of seed and nursery stock treatment and delivery for use in oil sands reclamation. Treatment systems are considered those...
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Linear disturbances such as powerline rights of way, seismic lines and roads are common in areas of intensive resource development. Roads that bisect wetlands can alter their hydrologic connectivity...
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Cory Savage
Tanner Owca
Mitchell Kay
Jelle Faber
Brent Wolfe
Roland Hall
Potential for downstream delivery of contaminants via Athabasca River floodwaters to lakes of the PAD has raised local to international concern. Here, we quantify enrichment of eight metals (Be, Cd...
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Boreal peatland restoration through partial removal of an oil and gas well pad Murdoch McKinnon, University of Waterloo Peatlands cover over 30% of the landscape on Canada’s Western Boreal Plains...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures
With few exceptions, permeability across in situ developments was the main factor affecting caribou movement. Relationship was non-linear, suggesting a minimum threshold of permeability is needed
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures
Salmo Consulting
At current levels of industrial development, pipelines and linear features have a very small negative effect on caribou populations compared to the high levels of predation.
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Authors
Mathieu Leblond
Jacqueline Frair
Daniel Fortin
Christian Dussault
Jean-Pierre Ouellet
Réhaume Courtois
Resource Date:
September
2011
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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Mathieu Leblond
Christian Dussault
Jean-Pierre Ouellet
Resource Date:
August
2012
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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Authors
Doug MacNearney
Karine Pigeon
Laura Finnegan
Anthropogenic disturbance like oil and gas development is thought to negatively affect boreal caribou through displacement and degradation of habitat, and through creation of favourable conditions for...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Wolves choose to move through linear features when available, and that by doing so they could move two to three times faster than in natural forest.
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Resource Date:
March
2012
This overview document collects knowledge and research on restoring degraded habitat for boreal ecotype woodland caribou. The objectives for this document are outlines below. Provide an overview of...
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Resource Date:
January
2015
This toolkit has been prepared as an operational handbook and is intended to guide implementation of reclamation techniques that will contribute to the restoration of caribou habitat. It is meant to...
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Authors
Kimberley Murray
Melanie Bird
Bin Xu
This research poster discusses and compares various treatments to well pad sites as well as an overview of temporary and permanent linear features. Presented at the NAIT 7th Seminar on Linear...