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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...
Digging Into Canadian Soils - An Introduction to Soil Science
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Written entirely by members of the Canadian Society of Soil Science, "Digging into Canadian Soils: An Introduction to Soil Science" provides an introduction to the core disciplines of soil science...
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.
Temperature, Moisture and Freeze–thaw Controls on CO2 Production in Soil Incubations From Northern Peatlands
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Peat accumulation in high latitude wetlands represents a natural long-term carbon sink, resulting from the cumulative excess of growing season net ecosystem production over non-growing season (NGS)...
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...
The Impacts of Forest Management Strategies for Woodland Caribou Vary Across Biogeographic Gradients
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Loss or alteration of forest ecosystems due to anthropogenic activities has prompted the need for mitigation measures aimed at protecting habitat for forest-dependent wildlife. Understanding how...
Video - Alberta Watershed Toolkit
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This presentation describes the Alberta Watershed Toolkit as a watershed planning community space to share success stories and tools.
Video - Alberta Wetland Policy
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This presentation discusses the state of wetland and peatland conservation in Alberta.
Video - Alberta's Upstream Petroleum Industry's Spill Preparedness: The Co-op Approach
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This presentation describes how the Alberta oil and gas industry decided to go with a oil/gas spill cooperative rather than having individual company spill response units.
Video - Assessing agricultural practices to improve watershed management in Alberta
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This presentation summarizes a 6 year project to evaluate the environmental and economic performance of agricultural BMPs to improve water quality on small watercourses in Alberta.
Video - Bow Basin Watershed Management Plan 2012: Lessons Learned
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This presentation describes what the Bow River Watershed Council learned through the various iterations of its watershed plans and state of the watershed reports.
Video - Bridging Planning Processes: Vermilion Watershed Project
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This presentation describes the watershed planning process for the Vermilion River.
Video - Can Alberta Learn Lessons for Low Impact Development From the UK?
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This presentation summarizes strategies Canada can learn from the U.K. about flood risk management.
Video - Challenges in Water Management in the South Saskatchewan Basin
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This presentation summarizes the challenges of infrastructure management for water storage and delivery in southern Alberta.
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 - Effects of Accidental Hydrocarbon Release on Red Deer River Water Quality
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This presentation provides a summary of the Plains Pipeline spill in the Red Deer River, June 7, 2012.
Video - Functional Environmental Flows: A Practical Strategy for Healthy Rivers
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This presentation describes how focusing on functional flows versus typical water conservation management could improve aquatic in-stream ecosystems while meeting current water allocations.