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A Framework to Identify Priority Wetland Habitats and Movement Corridors for Urban Amphibian Conservation
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Cities worldwide are expanding in area and human population, posing multiple challenges to amphibian populations, including habitat loss from removal of wetlands and terrestrial upland habitat...
AB Beaver BMP Engagement Webinar
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As part of our ongoing commitment to exploring innovative approaches to coexisting with beavers while promoting ecosystem health and resilience, we are excited to invite you to an upcoming webinar...
Alberta Beaver Beneficial Management Practices
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The work of beavers supports watershed and ecological health across the landscape. Many of the benefits beavers provide directly benefit humans: attenuate flood peaks, store water during droughts...
Beavers and Drought Webinar
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Working with Beavers Collaborative (Cows and Fish and Miistakis Institute) is pleased to host this webinar about beavers and their role in watershed resiliency with respect to drought.
Biogeochemical Response to Vegetation and Hydrologic Change in an Alaskan Boreal Fen Ecosystem
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Boreal peatlands store approximately one third of the earth’s terrestrial carbon, locked away in currently waterlogged and frozen conditions. Peatlands of boreal and arctic ecosystems are affected...
Bow River Regional Wetland Datasets
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A resource to improve understanding of wetlands in the Bow River region to promote conservation through protection and restoration. Wetlands are natural assets that have a vital role in climate change...
Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) and Inuit Nutrition Security in Canada
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The objective of this study was to examine food and nutrition security in relation to wildlife population and management status across Inuit Nunangat (the Inuit homeland, consisting of four regions...
Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) and Inuit Nutrition Security in Canada
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A 2018 academic paper examining the relationship between Inuit nutrition and caribou. It found that “Caribou was the top dietary source of protein in Nunavut (up to 35% of total intake) and the ISR...
Finding Lichen for Caribou
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A storymap website that explains the importance of lichen as a food source for caribou and the first steps of a project for mapping lichen undertaken by Natural Resources Canada's Canada Centre for...
Historical Landscape Use of Migratory Caribou: New Insights From Old Antlers
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Accumulations of shed caribou antlers ( Rangifer tarandus) are valuable resources for expanding the temporal scope with which we evaluate seasonal landscape use of herds. Female caribou shed their...
Laurie Chan
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Professor and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Toxicology and Environmental Health
Make Wetlands your Valentine: Bow River Regional Wetlands Datasets information session
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What better way to spend a Valentine’s Day lunch than learning about a new, open-access resource to view and understand wetlands in the Bow River region? We are pleased to invite you to a webinar with...
Map of Beaver Coexistence Tools
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Beavers, Canada's national animal, provide many valuable ecosystem services including storage of water during droughts and flooding, creation of habitat for a variety of species, and improvement of...
Peat Loss Collocates with a Threshold in Plant–Mycorrhizal Associations in Drained Peatlands Encroached by Trees
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Drainage-induced encroachment by trees may have major effects on the carbon balance of northern peatlands, and responses of microbial communities are likely to play a central mechanistic role. We...
Potential Impact of Restricted Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) Consumption on Anemia Prevalence Among Inuit Adults in Northern Canada
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Abstract Background Caribou ( Rangifer tarandus) is the top dietary source of iron and several micronutrients necessary for red blood cell production (erythropoiesis) in the contemporary diet of Inuit...
The Boreal-Arctic Wetland and Lake Dataset
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Here we present the Boreal–Arctic Wetland and Lake Dataset (BAWLD), a land cover dataset based on an expert assessment, extrapolated using random forest modelling from available spatial datasets of...
The Third Generation of Pan-Canadian Wetland Map at 10 m Resolution Using Multisource Earth Observation Data on Cloud Computing Platform
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Development of the Canadian Wetland Inventory Map (CWIM) has thus far proceeded over two generations, reporting the extent and location of bog, fen, swamp, marsh, and water wetlands across the country...