Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Resource Date:
April
2015
This document combines as-of-2015 reports for projects relating to mine site reclamation of the Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) Land Environmental Priority Area (EPA). These research...
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Resource Date:
September
2015
The proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Environmental Concerns in Right-of-Way Management (ROW11) provide industry leaders tasked with the construction and management of linear rights...
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Boreal Avian Modelling Project
Bioclimatic niche models of current avian distribution and density for 80 boreal-breeding songbird species are mapped based on present counts and climate change models
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Kirsten Lees
Tristan Quaife
Rebekka Artz
Myroslava Khomik
Joanna Clark
Resource Date:
February
2015
Peatlands store large amounts of terrestrial carbon and any changes to their carbon balance could cause large changes in the greenhouse gas (GHG) balance of the Earth's atmosphere. There is still much...
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This study tested the ability of rat root to grow in a high pH/high salinity environment, similar to that of a constructed oil sands tailings pond wetland.
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Rebecca Rooney
Lee Foote
Naomi Krogman
John Pattison
Matthew Wilson
Suzanne Bayley
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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Meagan Wood
Merrin Macrae
Maria Strack
Jonathan Price
Terry Osko
Richard Petrone
Wetlands are found extensively throughout the Western Boreal Plain, a region under pressure because of disturbance by the oil and gas industries. To understand how wetland systems may respond to...
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Ryan Cannon
William Quinton
James Craig
J. Hanisch
Oliver Sonnentag
In the zone of discontinuous permafrost, the cycling and storage of water within and between wetlands is poorly understood. The presence of intermittent permafrost bodies tends to impede and re-direct...
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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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The goal of the program is to develop a set of spatially explicit models that can be used to map the supply and economic value ecosystems goods and services
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The presentation discusses the role of taxonomy in biodiversity monitoring and how natural history museums can be involved
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The resource link will access Part 1 of this presentation. Part 2 can be accessed here. John Pomeroy, professor at the University of Saskatchewan, talks about water supply resilience and flood risk...
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Jay Johnson
Richard Howitt
Gregory Cajete
Fikret Berkes
Renee Pualani Louis
Andrew Kliskey
Indigenous and sustainability sciences have much to offer one another regarding the identification of techniques and methods for sustaining resilient landscapes. Based upon the literature, and our...
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Amanda Schoonmaker
Jean-Marie Sobze
Erin Fraser
Eckehart Marenholtz
Ann Smreciu
Chris Powter
Marshall Mckenzie
The purpose of this document is to review traditional and alternative systems of seed and nursery stock treatment and delivery for use in oil sands reclamation. Treatment systems are considered those...
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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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In this study, phospholipid fatty acids (PLFA) and carbon isotopes were used to characterize the response of in situ microbial communities to a pilot-scale wetland reclamation project in the Alberta...
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This guide provides information and guidance on how to plan and construct resource road wetland crossings in Canada's boreal plains.
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A field experiment from 2012 to 2013 at two locations in northeastern Alberta examined the short-term success of different fen revegetation strategies following the removal of infrastructure (road and...
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Road networks, both temporary and permanent, are necessary for accessing natural resources in the boreal forest. Forest roads can alter hydrology by 1) affecting the movement of water 2) reducing the...
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Differences in microtopography were associated with differences in plant species richness and composition between OSE pads and the undisturbed sites.