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Community-Based Monitoring as the Practice of Indigenous Governance: A Case Study of Indigenous-led Water Quality Monitoring in the Yukon River Basin
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Indigenous peoples are increasingly developing Community-Based Monitoring programs to protect the waters and lands within their territories in response to multiple ecological and political stressors...
Conservation Close to Home - Story Map
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Conservation Assessment for Southern Canada The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has completed a comprehensive assessment of the conservation needs and opportunities in southern Canada. The first of...
Conservation through Co-occurrence: Woodland Caribou as a Focal Species for Boreal Biodiversity
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Assessment of the focal/umbrella value of boreal caribou for conservation of mammalian and avian richness, based on evaluation of co-occurrence and conducting systematic conservation planning.
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...
Large Stocks of Peatland Carbon and Nitrogen are Vulnerable to Permafrost Thaw
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Northern peatlands have accumulated large stocks of organic carbon (C) and nitrogen (N), but their spatial distribution and vulnerability to climate warming remain uncertain. Here, we used machine...
Natural Climate Solutions for Canada
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Alongside the steep reductions needed in fossil fuel emissions, natural climate solutions (NCS) represent readily deployable options that can contribute to Canada’s goals for emission reductions. We...
Perfluoroalkyl Substances in Circum-Arctic Rangifer: Caribou and Reindeer
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Livers of caribou and reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) from Canada (n = 146), Greenland (n = 30), Svalbard (n = 7), and Sweden (n = 60) were analyzed for concentrations of eight perfluoroalkyl carboxylic...
Tundra Game Drives: An Arctic-Alpine Comparison
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Stone fences and blinds built by prehistoric hunters to gather and ambush elk and bighorn sheep above timberline in the Colorado Front Range are similar in concept and function to structures built by...