Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Christopher Evans
Vincent Gauci
To reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, conservation and restoration of wetlands play a key role. This report outlines the contribution of wetlands to global methane output; differences between...
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Natalie Shelby-James
Sarah Thacker
Chris Powter
Paul Fuellbrandt
Tomislav Hengl
Leandro Parente
Objective is to work collaboratively with soil data users to develop the Alberta Background Soil Quality System (ABSQS) as a tool to assist industry and government in environmental management
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December
2021
The most widely reported threat to populations of boreal and mountain woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) involves what has come to be known as disturbance-mediated apparent competition...
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Government of Northwest Territories
In 2014, boreal caribou in the NWT were listed as a Threatened species under the NWT Species at Risk Act and a NWT Recovery Strategy was prepared to guide boreal caribou recovery actions. One of the...
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C.E. Smyth
A.J. Dugan
M. Olguin
R.A. Birdsey
C. Wayson
A. Alanís
W.A. Kurz
Managing forests and forest products to help mitigate climate change was quantified in three coordinated studies involving six regions within North America. Each country-specific study examined...
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Majid Iravani
Brandon Allen
Ermias Azeria
Monica Kohler
Shannon White
This proof of concept assessment helps understand better market opportunities associated with biodiversity management in Alberta’s agricultural lands. Land management can increase biodiversity.
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Resource Date:
December
2020
A mesocosm study was undertaken to support the development of end pit lake technology. The mesocosms were exposed to OSPW (Oil Sands Process affected Water) and dFFT (densified Fluid Fine Tails).
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Cole Burton
Christopher Beirne
Catherine Sun
Erin Tattersall
Joanna Burgar
Jason Fisher
This project has clearly demonstrated the utility of camera trap surveys for monitoring restoration effectiveness in boreal environments. The cameras facilitated the collection of longitudinal data on...
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This report provides the details of the construction and application of a set of population and harvest models for boreal caribou in two Wildlife Management Zones and six other areas of interest in...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
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January
2020
Linear features, including seismic lines, pipelines, transmission lines, roads, railways, and trails are pervasive in Alberta’s boreal forest and have been implicated as a primary factor leading to...
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Majid Iravani
Monica Kohler
Shannon White
The results showed a pronounced variation in the historic supply of soil organic carbon and aboveground biomass in the watershed. Land management resulted in a diverse range of gains or losses.
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October
2018
This study utilized mesocosms to investigate the effects of oil sands process water (OSPW) and densified fluid fine tails (dFFT) on aquatic ecosystems to support development of end pit lake technology
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This thesis investigates the effectiveness of machine learning algorithms for automatic detection of coniferous seedling data along Boreal seismic lines. In order to obtain a survival assessment and...
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Chris Stockdale
Quinn Barber
Marc-André Parisien
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April
2018
The boreal forests of Alberta have dense networks of seismic exploration lines which have been shown to contribute significantly to the decline in woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou)...
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Conservation management is impeded by the lack of baseline data for many non-passerine, cryptic, or nocturnal species that are inadequately sampled by traditional monitoring programs. The recent rise...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Seismic lines and other linear features created by humans are thought to negatively impact woodland caribou. It is estimated that there are c. 100,000 km of conventional seismic lines in caribou...
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Doug MacNearney
Karine Pigeon
Laura Finnegan
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October
2016
We used GPS telemetry location data from 63 adult caribou and 6 adult wolves to build spatially explicit resource selection function (RSF) rasters. These RSF rasters describe the within-home-range...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Boreal caribou populations are declining across Alberta and much of their Canadian range. Key factors causing this decline include a warming climate along with habitat change from industrial...
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Millennium EMS Solutions Ltd.
The current document is focussed specifically on issues relating to the ecological direct contact exposure pathway (growth and reproduction of plants and soil invertebrates) in native grasslands areas...
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Craig DeMars
Kendal Benesh
The boreal ecotype of woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) is provincially Red-listed in British Columbia and federally listed as Threatened. Population declines of boreal caribou have been...