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2020 Wetlands Institute Speaker Series: Wetlands and Legal Frameworks: Protecting Natural Assets
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November 4th, 2020 at 9:00am PST to November 4th, 2020 at 12:00pm PST
, BC
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Due to COVID-19, The BC Wildlife Federation's Wetlands Insitute has been formatted into a virtual Speaker Series- a series of stand-alone webinars and workshops hosted throughout the Fall, covering...
2020 Wetlands Institute Speaker Series: Cultural Value of Wetlands and Archeological Assessments
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Event Date and Time
November 18th, 2020 at 9:00am PST to November 18th, 2020 at 12:00pm PST
, BC
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Due to COVID-19, The BC Wildlife Federation's Wetlands Insitute has been formatted into a virtual Speaker Series- a series of stand-alone webinars and workshops hosted throughout the Fall, covering...
2020 Wetlands Institute Speaker Series: Wetlands and Climate Change
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Event Date and Time
November 10th, 2020 at 10:00am PST to November 10th, 2020 at 11:30am PST
, BC
Organization
Due to COVID-19, The BC Wildlife Federation's Wetlands Insitute has been formatted into a virtual Speaker Series- a series of stand-alone webinars and workshops hosted throughout the Fall, covering...
A Map of Global Peatland Extent Created Using Machine Learning (Peat-ML)
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Peatlands play an integral role in the global carbon and hydrologic cycles and make up 3% of the Earth’s total landscape. Despite their importance, there is a lack of accurate information on the...
An Assessment of Sampling Designs Using SCR Analyses to Estimate Abundance of Boreal Caribou
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Abstract Accurately estimating abundance is a critical component of monitoring and recovery of rare and elusive species. Spatial capture–recapture (SCR) models are an increasingly popular method for...
Balancing Wetland Conservation and Development in a Regulated Utility
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This presentation provides an overview of ATCO Electric's approach to balancing wetland conservation and development as a regulated utility.
Biting Flies and Activity of Caribou in the Boreal Forest
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Habitat loss has been implicated in the decline of forest-dwelling caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou), but it is unknown how biting insects, potentially important components of boreal forest habitat...
Canadian Wetland Inventory using Google Earth Engine: The First Map and Preliminary Results
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Although wetlands provide valuable services to humans and the environment and cover a large portion of Canada, there is currently no Canada-wide wetland inventory based on the specifications defined...
CAN-SAR: A Database of Canadian Species at Risk Information
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Threatened species lists describe the conservation status of species and are key tools used to inform decisions for biodiversity conservation. These lists are rich in information obtained during...
Cortes Island Virtual Restoration Workshop
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Event Date and Time
September 18th, 2021 at 9:00am PST to September 19th, 2021 at 5:00pm PST
, BC
Organization
The BC Wildlife Federation's Wetlands Education Program is pleased to present a free virtual, public workshop. Wetlands can filter water, mitigate flooding, and provide critical habitat to hundreds of...
Deciduous Tree Species Classification Using Object-Based Analysis and Machine Learning with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Multispectral Data
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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...
Development of Genomic Resources for Cattails (Typha), a Globally Important Macrophyte Genus
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A critical knowledge gap in freshwater plant research is the lack of genetic tools necessary to answer fundamental questions about their demographic histories, adaptation and phylogenetic...
Dietary Reconstruction and Evidence of Prey Shifting in Pleistocene and Recent Gray Wolves (Canis lupus) From Yukon Territory
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We investigate if and how diets of gray wolves from the Yukon have changed from the Pleistocene to the recent Holocene using dental microwear analysis of carnassial teeth and stable isotope analyses
DNA Metabarcoding of Faecal Pellets Reveals High Consumption of Yew (Taxus spp.) by Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in a Lichen-poor Environment
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Woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) are threatened in Canada because of the drastic decline in population size caused primarily by human-induced landscape changes that decrease habitat and...
Does Connectivity Exist for Remnant Boreal Caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) Along the Lake Superior Coastal Range? Options for Landscape Restoration
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Study of whether animal movement can be discerned, using genetic population and relatedness analyses, within and beyond the Lake Superior Coastal Range.
Effects of Narrow Linear Disturbances on Light and Wind Patterns in Fragmented Boreal Forests in Northeastern Alberta
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Forest fragmentation threatens forest biodiversity and ecosystem function. One of the concerns relates to increases in edge effects, which among other things affects the forest microclimate that...