Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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This project aims to engage and build capacity with Indigenous communities to fulfill the multiple objectives of the 2 Billion Trees program. This project will build on established collaborations and...
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Pathogens challenge early stages of forest regeneration and pose a risk to large-scale tree planting efforts such as the 2 Billion Trees program. Infected seedlings can show reduced performance and...
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Natural Resources Canada
Nicolas Mansuy
This project aims to engage and build capacity with Indigenous communities to fulfill the multiple objectives of the 2 Billion Trees program. This project will build on established collaborations and...
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Pathogens challenge early stages of forest regeneration and pose a risk to large-scale tree planting efforts such as the 2 Billion Trees program. Infected seedlings can show reduced performance and...
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Reclaiming disturbed industrial sites involves many challenges, with undesirable vegetation posing an obstacle to establishing native, desirable plant cover. Chemical vegetation management is an...
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Planting is a highly reliable method to ensure the establishment of target species at desired densities on reclaimed sites. It allows direct control over the species, spacing and timing of...
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Vegetation management is a critical component of a successful reclamation program. Reclamation activities following industrial disturbances can make many sites vulnerable to ingress by undesirable...
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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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Resource Date:
January
2016
This presentation provides an overview of ATCO Electric's approach to balancing wetland conservation and development as a regulated utility.
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Nitrogen and complete fertilizer applications improved growth of white spruce on overburden sites. Fertilization did not, however, have an effect on lodgepole pine growth on tailings sand sites
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Kirk Andries
Jim Herbers
Dan Farr
Rick Schneider
Erin Bayne
Anne McIntosh
Bonnie Drozdowski
Rob Serrouya
Scott Nielsen
Mike Kennedy
Tom Habib
Resource Date:
October
2013
This set of presentations will introduce you to the wide range of research topics currently being undertaken by the ABMI. Speakers present the state-of-the-science and discuss the implications for Alberta’s land-use managers and policy makers.
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Both aspen and spruce grew on sites with very high salinity and pH deeper in the soil profile (i.e., 40-100cm), so long as surface soils were not highly saline and had adequate moisture and nutrients.
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These fact sheets highlight plant, soil, and water indicators and key ecological benefits of each of the five major wetlands types.
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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...
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Authors
Bev Gingras
Chris Smith
Kylie McLeod
Leanne Mingo
This research poster gives an overview of the relationship between roads and wetland flow, discusses tips and tools for planning and outlines a case study of developed crossings. Presented at the NAIT...
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Authors
Laura Finnegan
Doug MacNearney
Gord Stenhouse
Resource Date:
November
2016
This presentation by Dr. Laura Finnegan explores caribou response to oil and gas activities.
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Resource Date:
January
2016
The Cenovus LiDea project tests the idea that active restoration using silviculture may resolve arrested succession and address the basic mechanisms that lead to caribou decline.
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Vulnerability to climate change of more than 170 of Alberta’s native species is assessed on the basis of exposure and sensitivity to change
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Amanda Schoonmaker
Mark Baah-Acheamfour
Stefan Schreiber
Eckehart Marenholtz
Resource Date:
February
2023
A presentation on a combination of approaches to manage vegetation and forest development, through the use of wood mulch, film mulch, pre-emergent herbicide, rototilling, hitchhiking native forbs with...
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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