Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Roger Whitehead
George Harper
In 1986, a field trial was established to test options for brushing young, shrub-dominated Engelmann spruce plantations in the moist warm Interior Cedar Hemlock biogeoclimatic subzone of British...
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Erin Bayne
Diana Stralberg
Amy Nixon
Use of ABMI samples to understand genetic variation and changes in genetic structure is identified as an area where ABMI data can be used to understand how biodiversity is adapting to climate change
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Leila Taheriazad
Carlos Portillo-Quintero
Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa
This report presents a comprehensive review of industrial applications of an emerging environmental monitoring technology called Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and a WSN installed at Coal Valley Mine
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Marcus Becker
Dave Huggard
Melanie Dickie
Camille Warbington
Jim Schieck
Emily Herdman
Robert Serrouya
Stan Boutin
Estimating animal abundance and density are fundamental goals of many wildlife monitoring programs. Camera trapping has become an increasingly popular tool to achieve these monitoring goals due to...
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Steve Wilson
John Wilmshurst
Helicopter- and snowcat-supported backcountry skiing is a unique industry that is widespread throughout southern mountain caribou habitat in British Columbia (BC). We analyzed records of helicopter...
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Resource Date:
August
2021
With the support of Alberta Environment and Parks, the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute has become the trusted source for data about habitat, species, and the human footprint.
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Chris Powter
Brent Scorfield
Brent Lakeman
Shane Patterson
The development of integrated geomatics and remote sensing technologies for environmental management holds promise to meet economic diversification and effective environmental management.
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Roger Whitehead
F. Cortini
S.W. Taylor
A.F. Linnell Nemec
J.W. Goudie
J. Vallentgoed
K.R. Polsson
The Stony Lake trial was established in 1987 to benchmark growth performance of interior spruce ( Picea glauca [Moench] Voss x engelmannii Parry ex Engelm.) and lodgepole pine ( Pinus contorta Dougl...
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Scott McNay
Clayton Lamb
Line Giguere
Sara Williams
Hans Martin
Glenn Sutherland
Mark Hebblewhite
Resource Date:
March
2022
Recovering endangered species is a difficult and often controversial task that challenges status-quo land uses. Southern Mountain caribou are a threatened ecotype of caribou that historically ranged...
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Long-term monitoring of some sites would ultimately be needed to show that recovering wellsites are on a trajectory that consistently leads to full recovery.
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Robert Serrouya
Bruce McLellan
Harry van Oort
Garth Mowat
Stan Boutin
Using an adaptive management experiment, we tested the hypothesis that reducing moose to historic levels would reduce apparent competition and therefor recover caribou populations.
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Dave Hervieux
Mark Hebblewhite
Dave Stepnisky
Michelle Bacon
Stan Boutin
Resource Date:
November
2014
Across Canada, woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou (Gmelin, 1788)) populations are declining because of human-induced changes to food webs that are resulting in apparent competition-induced...
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Nadia Rochdi
J. Zhang
Karl Staenz
X. Yang
D. Rolfson
J. Banting
C. King
R. Doherty
Scope of the project is to develop a geomatics-based monitoring system to support the Government of Alberta’s efforts for monitoring reclamation success. Software will support decision making process
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Jacob Bradshaw
Chris Johnson
Carolyn Shores
Roy Rea
Resource Date:
March
2020
We investigated the effect of three forest-harvest prescriptions on the co-occurrence of caribou, sympatric ungulates, and predators: unharvested old-growth, clearcut harvesting, and group-selection..
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Ignacio Aguirre
Glynnis Hood
Cherie Westbrook
Beavers ( Castor canadensis and C. fiber) build dams that modify catchment and pond water balances, and it has been suggested that they can be a nature-based solution for reducing flood hydrographs...
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UAV-based remote sensing as a method for monitoring well pad recovery is determined to be feasible from a technical and field perspective.
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Protocols for sampling biotic and abiotic parameters in large lakes, large rivers, wetlands, and streams in Alberta is provided. Estimates of time costs are given.
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Jennifer Hird
Alessandro Montaghi
Gregory McDermid
Jahan Kariyeva
Brian Moorman
Scott Nielsen
Anne McIntosh
Good statistical agreement between key structural vegetation parameters, such as mean and maximum vegetation height, with PPC metrics successfully predicting most height and tree-diameter metrics.
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Mountain valley bottom peatlands are poorly studied systems, particularly in Alberta, Canada, where the provincial inventory has neither mapped nor characterized them. Nonetheless, these ecosystems...
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Aseniwuche Winewak Nation
A brief video outlining what the Caribou Patrol Program does, who we are and how we came to be.