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BERA News Fall 2022
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Understanding how birds respond to landscape disturbance is key to effective restoration. Two studies used non-invasive microphone arrays to determine the exact locations of singing individuals in the...
BERA News Spring 2022
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Mounding is a common restoration technique designed to improve microsite conditions for planted seedlings in wetlands. There are a variety of strategies for constructing mounds, though, and how mounds...
Increasing Contributions of Peatlands to Boreal Evapotranspiration in a Warming Climate
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The response of evapotranspiration (ET) to warming is of critical importance to the water and carbon cycle of the boreal biome, a mosaic of land cover types dominated by forests and peatlands. The...
Mechanized Tree Planting in Sweden and Finland: Current State and Key Factors for Future Growth
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In Fennoscandia, mechanized tree planting is time-efficient and produces high-quality regeneration. However, because of low cost-efficiency, the mechanization of Fennoscandian tree planting has been...
Red Deer River Watershed Alliance - AGM
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Red Deer, AB
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The Red Deer River Watershed Alliance invites you to join us for our Annual General Meeting on Thursday, June 27nd. This event is being held at the River Bend Golf Course from 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm . We...
Satellite Determination of Peatland Water Table Temporal Dynamics by Localizing Representative Pixels of A SWIR-Based Moisture Index
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The OPtical TRApezoid Model (OPTRAM) is a physically-based approach for remote soil moisture estimation. OPTRAM is based on the response of short-wave infrared (SWIR) reflectance to vegetation water...
The Biophysical Climate Mitigation Potential of Boreal Peatlands During the Growing Season
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Peatlands and forests cover large areas of the boreal biome and are critical for global climate regulation. They also regulate regional climate through heat and water vapour exchange with the...
The Boreal Ecosystem Recovery and Assessment (BERA)
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The boreal region of Alberta contains extensive disturbances from natural resource extraction. Roads, well pads, seismic lines (petroleum-exploration corridors), forest-harvest areas, and other...
The Edge 2022 (BERA Systhesis)
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The central goal of the Boreal Ecosystem Recovery and Assessment (BERA) program is to understand the effects of industrial disturbance on natural ecosystem dynamics, and to develop strategies for...
The Edge: The BERA Program 2024 Synthesis Report
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The 2024 issue of The Edge summarizes the following key findings: Plan A better understanding of passive recovery trajectories will help guide restoration planning LiDAR is a powerful planning tool...
Video - Alberta's Groundwater: Inventory, Use, Risks, and Management Solutions
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This 2016 talk provides an overview of some of the issues related to groundwater in Alberta.
Video - Aquatic Invasive Species: The Alberta Approach & Program Highlights
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Kate Wilson explains how Alberta is dealing with managing invasive species, and how the process is going.
Video - Do you know your watershed? Learning about the Red Deer River
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This presentation discusses what watershed education looks like in the Red Deer River watershed.
Video - Too Much and Too Little Water, Adaptation Strategies for Municipalities
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This presentation discusses explains how climate change and land use changes impact water supply and how we can adapt.
Video - Using Pellet-group Counts to Illustrate Changes in Reindeer Habitat Use in a Managed Boreal Forest
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At the 14th North American Caribou Workshop, held in September 2012, Anna Skarin presented research conducted in northern Sweden on the effects of new infrastructure on semi-domesticated reindeer in the area.
Video - Watershed Management Planning in the Red Deer River Basin
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This presentation outlines the Red Deer River Watershed Alliance's process for watershed planning.
Warming Response of Peatland CO2 Sink is Sensitive to Seasonality in Warming Trends
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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...
Wellsite Selection by Grizzly Bears Ursus arctos in West-central Alberta
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Oil and gas development is widespread in west – central Alberta, yet little is known about the potential impacts of oil and gas activities on grizzly bear habitat use. Focusing on the impacts of one...