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- 1Ball, Ronald Aaron
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- 1Bergeron, Colin
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- 2Vinebrooke, Rolf (Biological Sciences)
- 1Adamowicz, Vic (Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, University of Alberta)
- 1Boutin, Stan (Biological Sciences)
- 1Cahill, James J.F. Jr. (Biological Sciences)
- 1Cameron Carlyle (Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science)
- 1Cameron Carlyle, Agriculture, Food, and Nutritional Science
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Fall 2017
Biodiversity loss endangers ecosystem services and is considered as a global change that may generate unacceptable environmental consequences on the Earth system. Global biodiversity observations are needed to provide a deep understanding of the biodiversity - ecosystem services relationship and...
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Fall 2016
Prairie wetlands provide many important ecosystem services including supporting biodiversity, improving water quality, preventing erosion, recharging groundwater, and attenuating floods. However, more than half of prairie wetlands in North America have been lost, primarily due to drainage for...
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Composition and structure of spider assemblages in layers of the mixedwood boreal forest after variable retention harvest
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Natural disturbances are important drivers of ecosystem change in the boreal forest and new approaches to sustainable forest management draw on natural disturbance patterns as a template for harvesting. The main premise for such approach is that species have evolved and adapted to stand-replacing...
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Designing an incentive program to reduce on-farm deforestation in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania
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This thesis is a set of two papers on the design of a ‘payment for ecosystem services’ (PES) program for the reduction of on-farm deforestation in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. The forests of this area are internationally recognized as one of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems;...
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Effects of environmental and disturbance gradients on native bee diversity, abundance and composition in Alberta’s prairies
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Native bees provide pollination services to a range of crops, supporting food production and the global economy. They also support the fitness of native flowering plants and terrestrial plant diversity. These functions are delivered by a diverse community of bees with a broad spectrum of life...
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Fire history, landscape biodiversity and indicators for sustainable management of the boreal mixedwood forest
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I examined the response of invertebrate assemblages to the forest mosaic established by past fire events, and tested the performance of trees as biodiversity surrogates in accurately reflecting relationships between fire history and invertebrate assemblages. Over 80 % of the studied landscape...
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Spring 2014
The worldwide biodiversity crisis has intensified the need to better understand how biodiversity and human disturbance are related. Yet this relationship lacks both consensus in theoretical expectations and consistency in observed empirical patterns. I present one of the largest extent studies...
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Spring 2014
This research compared the variability/diversity of spectral information captured with spectrometers at the airborne, field, and leaf level to tree species diversity. Airborne measurements were made over the North Saskatchewan River Valley while field and leaf measurements were done with...