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Conceptual Models as Tools for Communication Across Disciplines

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Authors

Marieke Heemskerk

Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman

Karen Wilson

Organization

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Resource Date:

2003

This paper suggests that researchers can improve interdisciplinary science through the use of conceptual models as a communication tool. The authors share lessons from a workshop in which...

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Wolves, White-tailed Deer, and Beaver: Implications of Seasonal Prey Switching for Woodland Caribou Declines

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Authors

Andrew David Latham

Maria Cecilia Latham

Kyle Knopff

Mark Hebblewhite

Stan Boutin

Organization

University of Alberta

Golder Associates Ltd.

Resource Date:

2013

Global warming and landscape changes in Alberta's bitumen sands have resulted in prey enrichment, which is changing the large mammal predator – prey system and causing declines in woodland caribou...

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Mammal Seismic Line Use Varies With Restoration: Applying Habitat Restoration to Species at Risk Conservation in a Working Landscape

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Authors

Erin Tattersall

Joanna Burgar

Jason Fisher

Cole Burton

Organization

University of British Columbia

Resource Date:

2019

Restoration of degraded habitats is increasingly used to mitigate the effects of anthropogenic landscape change on wildlife populations, but wildlife responses to habitat restoration are often assumed...

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Boreal Caribou

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Slowing Down Wolves to Protect Boreal Caribou Populations: A Spatial Simulation Model of Linear Feature Restoration

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Authors

Matthias C. Spangenberg

Robert Serrouya

Melanie Dickie

Craig Demars

Theo Michelot

Stan Boutin

Meike Wittmann

Organization

Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute

Resource Date:

2019

In Canada, boreal caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) are declining in numbers, in part due to increased predation by wolves (Canis lupus). One management option to reduce wolf–caribou interactions...

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Evaluating Functional Recovery of Habitat for Threatened Woodland Caribou

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Authors

Melanie Dickie

Robert Serrouya

Craig DeMars

Jerome Cranston

Stan Boutin

Contacts

Melanie Dickie

Organization

University of Alberta

Resource Date:

2017

Habitat restoration is a core element for the recovery of many declining species. In western Canada, habitat restoration for the recovery of woodland caribou is focused on linear features (LFs)...

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Boreal Caribou

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Alberta’s Caribou: A Guide to Range Planning Vol. 1: Northeast Alberta

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Authors

Tara Russell, Danielle Pendlebury, Alison Ronson

Organization

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society

Resource Date:

2016

This document is a ground-level look at boreal woodland caribou in northeastern Alberta: their status, their habitat, the pressures they face, and what is needed for their recovery in this province...

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Timing of Planting: What are our Options?

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Organization

NAIT Centre for Boreal Research

Resource Date:

February

2021

In forest reclamation, the use of nursery stock seedlings is often desirable as this plant material provides greater assurance of woody plant cover development, whereas leave-for-natural-recovery...

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Alberta Background Soil Quality System Project: Workshop Summary

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Authors

Natalie Shelby-James

Sarah Thacker

Chris Powter

Paul Fuellbrandt

Tomislav Hengl

Leandro Parente

Organization

InnoTech Alberta

Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada

Resource Date:

2022

Objective is to work collaboratively with soil data users to develop the Alberta Background Soil Quality System (ABSQS) as a tool to assist industry and government in environmental management

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Planting Techniques for Boreal Reclamation

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Organization

Canadian Conservation and Land Management Knowledge Network

Resource Date:

2022

This infographic synthesizes knowledge from a variety of resources on the Canadian and Conservation Land Management (CCLM) Knowledge Portal. It highlights some important considerations for managers...

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Improving Widescale Monitoring of Ectoparasite Presence in Northern Canadian Wildlife with the Aid of Citizen Science

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Authors

Emily Chenery, Maud Henaff, Kristenn Magnusson, N. Jane Harms, Nicholas Mandrak, Péter Molnár

Organization

University of Toronto

Government of Yukon

Resource Date:

2022

Surveying ticks on wildlife hosts consistently over time and across space presents many challenges. In Yukon, Canada, the winter tick, Dermacentor albipictus, is a blood-feeding parasite that can...

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What do Caribou Eat? A Review of the Literature on Caribou Diet

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Authors

Quinn Webber

Kristy Ferraro

Jack Hendrix

Eric Vander Wal

Contacts

Quinn M. R. Webber

Organization

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Yale University

Resource Date:

January

2022

Historically the study of diet caribou and reindeer (Rangifer tarandus (Gmelin, 1788)) has been specific to herds and few comprehensive circumpolar analyses of Rangifer diet exist. As a result, the...

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Extirpation Despite Regulation? Environmental Assessment and Caribou

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Authors

Rosemary-Claire Collard

Jessica Dempsey

Mollie Holmberg

Contacts

Rosemary-Claire Collard

Organization

Simon Fraser University

University of British Columbia

Resource Date:

2020

Many caribou populations in Canada face extirpation despite dozens of provincial and federal legislative instruments designed to protect them. How are industrial developments that impact caribou...

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Mapping Degrading Dendritic Peat Plateaus, NWT, Canada

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Authors

Alexandre Chiasson

Contacts

Alexandre Chiasson

Organization

University of Alberta

Resource Date:

March

2022

In the discontinuous permafrost zone, thermokarst lakes and thermal erosion are widespread and common permafrost thaw-related phenomena. Thermokarst features are indicative of thaw sensitive...

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Wetland Knowledge Exchange May 2022 Newsletter

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Contacts

Leanne Mingo

Organization

Ducks Unlimited Canada

NAIT Centre for Boreal Research

Project

Wetland Knowledge Exchange

Resource Date:

May

2022

The Wetland Knowledge Exchange releases monthly newsletters that highlight new research, publications, news, interesting facts, events and more. In this edition you will learn about: A framework to...

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Principes directeurs pour la collaboration interculturelle

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Authors

Indigenous Knowledge Circle (IKC) of the National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium (NBCKC)

Organization

Indigenous Knowledge Circle (IKC) of the NBCKC

Resource Date:

2022

Ces Principes directeurs pour la collaboration interculturelle serviront de base à une nouvelle façon de travailler ancrée dans la réconciliation, l'apaisement et la collaboration pour protéger...

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Guiding Principles for Cross-cultural Collaboration - Woods Cree

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Authors

Indigenous Knowledge Circle (IKC) of the National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium (NBCKC)

Organization

Indigenous Knowledge Circle (IKC) of the NBCKC

Resource Date:

2022

These Guiding Principles for Cross-cultural Collaboration provide the foundation for a new way of working rooted in reconciliation, healing and collaboration to protect, restore and conserve species...

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Guiding Principles for Cross-cultural Collaboration - Inuttitut

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Authors

Indigenous Knowledge Circle (IKC) of the National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium (NBCKC)

Organization

Indigenous Knowledge Circle (IKC) of the NBCKC

Resource Date:

2022

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Guiding Principles for Cross-cultural Collaboration - Michif

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Indigenous Knowledge Circle (IKC) of the NBCKC

Resource Date:

2022

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COSIA Land Environmental Priority Area: 2021 Annual In Situ Research Report

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Contacts

COSIA

Organization

Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance

Project

COSIA Land EPA

Resource Date:

March

2022

This report summarizes progress for projects related to in situ reclamation of the Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) Land Environmental Priority Area (EPA) as of 2021 (published March...

Prioritizing Zones for Caribou Habitat Restoration in the Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) Area V4.0

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Authors

Melanie Dickie

Caroline Bampfylde

Robert Serrouya

Contacts

COSIA

Organization

Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance

Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute

Project

COSIA Land EPA

Resource Date:

April

2022

Seismic lines and other linear features (roads, railways, trails, transmission lines, pipelines, etc.) are pervasive in Alberta’s boreal forest. It is estimated that there are approximately 100,000 km...

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