Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Authors
Laureen Echiverri
Ellen Macdonald
Resource Date:
September
2019
For the purpose of informing biodiversity conservation efforts in managed landscapes, we explored whether and how understory plant communities (abundance, diversity, composition) were related to a...
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Authors
Tegan Holmes
Tricia Stadnyk
Masoud Asadzadeh
John Gibson
This study evaluates whether combined use of streamflow and isotope tracer performance metrics can improve representation of simulated streamflow-generating processes within a large river basin, the...
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Aino Korrensalo
Tomáš Hájek
Timo Vesala
Lauri Mehtätalo
Eeva-Stiina Tuittila
Resource Date:
November
2016
Plant functional types (PFTs) are used to make generalizations in modeling how plants impact ecosystem functioning. In boreal bogs the number of plant species is small, but several PFTs are...
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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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Seismic lines are slow to recover naturally, and many seismic lines need to be restored to contribute towards caribou recovery. Caribou predators use seismic lines to travel throughout caribou ranges...
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Field data on the abundance (or percent cover) of vascular plants, bryophytes, and soil mesofauna were obtained in the summer of 2008 and 2009 from nine produced water release sites in Alberta and...
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Resource Date:
November
2020
The Vermillion River watershed region, found in central Alberta between Edmonton and Lloydminster, is home to residents and farmers who rely on the watershed for drinking water, agriculture, and...
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Resource Date:
January
2016
With over 75 years of experience and activity in every province and territory, Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) is a registered charity and a recognized leader in wetland conservation. DUC is a science...
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Dr. Richard McCleary draws the links between what we see in the field to the maps we have for planning and points out that the information we need for watershed assessment and riparian zones is the same.
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This presentation discusses the need for a multi-level classification for boreal wetlands and accurate change detection.
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Dr. Lorin Hicks talks about the Montana example of habitat conservation planning in forestry management.
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This presentation discusses the Alberta water extent monitoring pilot study, with the goal to create a database that has the potential for implementation at a provincial level.
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This talk summarizes the progression of water law and water rights policy in Western Canada and provides some possible solutions for current and emerging challenges.
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Resource Date:
March
2013
This presentation describes the Alberta Watershed Toolkit as a watershed planning community space to share success stories and tools.
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Resource Date:
March
2013
This presentation discusses the state of wetland and peatland conservation in Alberta.
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The presentation describes the development and content of the draft Biodiversity Management Framework for the Lower Athabasca Region
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This 2016 talk provides an overview of some of the issues related to groundwater in Alberta.
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This 2012 talk presented the government's take on provincial water priorities, specifically in regards to the provincial wetlands policy.
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This public symposium covers Alberta's progress to improve its flood and drought resiliency, including the role of natural solutions. NOTE: This is a 4 hour video with multiple presenters
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This presentation was a part of the Petroleum Technology Alliance of Canada, Hydraulic Fracturing in Western Canada: an Environmental Perspective Forum, in May of 2014.