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Oil Sands Terrestrial Habitat and Risk Modeling for Disturbance and Reclamation – Phase I Report
Download2010-11-30
The overall objective of this project is to develop a framework that integrates risk management and strategic decision-making to evaluate the impact of disturbance (natural and industrial) on ecosystem products and services, and on habitat availability for terrestrial species in Alberta’s Lower...
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2010-04-26
IDRC awarded 2010: The general aim of the project is to gain a more nuanced understanding of how multiple interacting shocks and risks, including cimate viability and HIV AIDS influence capital stocks and local livelihoods choices, and consequently, vulnerability and food security, and use this...
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Biogeochemical Cycling and Microbial Communities in Native Grasslands:Responses to Climate Change and Defoliation
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Ongoing climate change has emerged as a major scientific challenge in the current century. Grassland ecosystems are considered net carbon (C) sinks to mitigate climate change. However, they are in turn, influenced by climate change and management practices, providing feedback to climate change...
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Governance Institutions and the Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change in Two Rural Communities in Alberta
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Adaptation is now recognized as an important aspect of responses to climate change. Rural communities in the prairie provinces of Canada are considered to be sensitive to the impacts of climate change due to socio-economic and geographical factors. This study examines the ways in which governance...
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2011
Landhausser, S. M., Lieffers, V. J., Teste, F. P.
Abstract: There are concerns that large-scale stand mortality due to mountain pine beetle (MPB) could greatly reduce natural regeneration of serotinous Rocky Mountain (RM) lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia) because the closed cones are held in place without the fire cue for cone...
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Spatial Genetic Structure of a Symbiotic Beetle-Fungal System: Toward Multi-Taxa Integrated Landscape Genetics
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James, P.M.A., Hamelin, R.C., Murray, B.W., Coltman, D.W., Sperling, F.A.H.
Spatial patterns of genetic variation in interacting species can identify shared features that are important to gene flow and can elucidate co-evolutionary relationships. We assessed concordance in spatial genetic variation between the mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) and one of its...
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Oil Sands Terrestrial Habitat and Risk Modelling for Disturbance and Reclamation – Phase II Report
Download2011-11-25
The overall objective of this project is to develop a framework that integrates risk management and strategic decision-making to evaluate the impact of disturbance (natural and industrial) on ecosystem products and services, and on habitat availability for terrestrial species in Alberta’s Lower...
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2012-01-01
Cullingham, Catherine I., Sperling, Felix A. H., Coltman, David W., Roe, Amanda D.
Irruptive forest insect pests cause considerable ecological and economic damage, and their outbreaks have been increasing in frequency and severity. We use a phylogeographic approach to understand the location and progression of an outbreak by the MPB (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins), an...