Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Threatened woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) have experienced large range recessions and population declines across much of Canada’s boreal forest in the last century and have become a...
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Resource Date:
October
2009
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A 30-page report from 2012 on the Yukon portion of the herd’s range. It includes discussion of the potential impacts of forest fires. This resource and others can be found on the Northern Caribou...
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Authors
S. Konkolics
Melanie Dickie
Robert Serrouya
Stan Boutin
To examine the effects of forest fires on woodland caribou, we collected GPS location data on five caribou ranges in northeastern Alberta.
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Authors
Eric Palm
Michael Suitor
Kyle Joly
Jim Herriges
Allicia Kelly
Dave Hervieux
Kelsey Russell
Torsten Bentzen
Nicholas Larter
Mark Hebblewhite
Resource Date:
January
2022
Climate change will lead to more frequent and more severe fires in some areas of boreal forests, affecting the distribution and availability of late-successional forest communities. These forest...
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Authors
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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Authors
Hans Skatter
Michael Charlebois
S. Eftestøl
D. Tsegaye
J.E. Colman
John Kansas
K. Flydal
Brady Balicki
We tested [the potential habitat value of postfire residuals] using 2 years of GPS data obtained from 56 female caribou to identify calving site selection. 79 calving events were identified from...
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Project Description: Monitoring of calving events using 2 years of GPS data from 56 collared female caribou to identify calving site selection. Project Outcomes or Intended Outcomes: Providing insight...
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Project Description: The programme de suivi des population de caribou au Québec vise le suivi de 12 indicateurs biologiques, regroupés sous 6 thématique / The monitoring program of caribou populations...
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Project DescriptionInvestigation into short-term and long-term progression of terrestrial forage lichen cover following wildfire in the Boreal Shield of northern Saskatchewan. Project Outcomes or...
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Authors
Hans Skatter
John Kansas
Michael Charlebois
Brady Balicki
Resource Date:
February
2014
In boreal forests, wildfire is a dominant ecological process that affects the distribution and abundance of terrestrial lichens, the principal winter food for Woodland Caribou ( Rangifer tarandus...
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Project Description: The Regional Industry Caribou Collaboration (RICC) is a group of energy and forestry companies who support caribou recovery efforts in the Cold Lake, East Side of the Athabasca...
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This project is a part of the Government of Canada’s initiative for monitoring and assessing regional cumulative effects, a recently added requirement to the new Impact Assessment Act (2019). Among...
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Authors
Denyse Dawe
Marc-André Parisien
Yan Boulanger
Jonathan Boucher
Alexandre Beauchemin
Dominique Arseneault
Infrastructure built in fire-prone wildland areas often has a high potential of being impacted by wildfire. Managers designing infrastructure in these areas, therefore, require assessments of wildfire...
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Authors
Lisa Venier
John Pedlar
Kellina Higgins
Kevin Lawrence
Russ Walton
Yan Boulanger
Daniel McKenney
Conserving large intact forest landscapes (IFLs) is one forest management strategy to mitigate industrial impacts on the environment. Measuring the IFL inventory at national scales has also been...
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The Boreal Caribou Ecological Model Developed by the Habitat Restoration Working Group (HRWG) of the National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium (NBCKC). Habitat restoration is expected to play a key...
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The Boreal Caribou Ecological Model is a conceptual model which illustrates the key ecosystem factors, mechanisms, pathways and interactions mediating the well known national disturbance-recruitment...
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Authors
Y. Huberman
J. Beckers
R. Brett
G. Castilla
R. Errington
E.C. Fraser-Reid
D. Goodsman
E.H. Hogg
J. Metsaranta
E. Neilson
J. Olesinski
M.-A. Parisien
D. Price
T. Ramsfield
C. Shaw
D. Thompson
M.F. Voicu
E. Whitman
J. Edwards
The climate in Canada’s north has changed over the past 70 years. Indeed, mean annual temperature in the Northwest Territories has increased by 2°C to 4°C since record keeping began in 1950. Annual...
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Authors
Angelo Filicetti
Scott Nielsen
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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Project DescriptionMapping of fire from 1988-2013 using the differenced Normalized Burn Ratio analysis of Landsat Thematic mapper and Operational Land Imager. Project Outcomes or Intended OutcomesFor...