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2013-06-07
This literature review provides an understanding of ecological resilience as a concept to promote successful land reclamation in Alberta’s mineable oil sands region by exploring four key issues: Defining ecological resilience for boreal forest ecosystems, and assessing whether this definition can...
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Evaluating Methods for Isolating Total RNA and Predicting the Success of Sequencing Phylogenetically Diverse Plant Transcriptomes
Download2012-11-21
Zhang, Yong , Wu, Xiaolei , Patterson, Jordan , Villarreal, Juan C. , Jordon-Thaden, Ingrid , Bruskiewich, Richard , Sage, Rowan F. , Goh, Falicia , Wong, Gane K., Chase, Mark W. , Stewart Jr, C Neal , Clarke, Neil D. , Burris, Jason N. , Ralph, Paula , Tian, Zhijian , Myburg, Henrietta , Surek, Barbara. , Rolf, Megan. , Graham, Sean , Thomsen, Christina J. , Johnson, Marc TJ. , Miles, Nicholas , Carrigan, Charlotte T. , Greiner, Stephan , Soltis, Pamela , Leebens-Mack, James , Edger, Patrick P. , Soltis, Douglas , Kutchan, Toni M. , Melkonian, Michael , Covshoff, Sarah , Carpenter, Eric J., Deyholos, Michael K. , Pires, J Chris , Hibberd, Julian M. , Stevenson, Dennis
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2004
Jiang, M.X., Wu, J., Gao, X.M., Shen, Z.H., Jiang, Z.G., Primack, R.B., Huang, J.H., Han, X.G., He, F.
The Three Gorges Dam in China is the largest dam ever built. Its impacts on the biodiversity and ecological processes in the region are causing concern to ecologists worldwide. The dam and associated environmental alterations may result in a number of regional changes in terrestrial and aquatic...
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2017-11-30
SSHRC Awarded PDG 2018: Globally, most park agencies have little capacity to produce in-house social science or ecological research, or conduct meaningful knowledge exchange with Indigenous and local communities. The goal of this project is to enhance the generation and use of knowledge,...
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Disentangling the relative effects of structural complexity and substrate composition on fish habitat selection in coral reef environments
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Identifying features of biogenic habitats (i.e. made of living plants and animals) that attract and retain resident species is a key theme in ecology with important implications for habitat conservation and restoration. Using corals (class Anthozoa, phylum Cnidaria) —a group of foundational...
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Evaluating trade-offs: the effects of foraging, biting flies, and footing on wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) habitat use
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Understanding the distribution of forage is important in predicting the distribution, habitat use (behaviour), movements, and fitness-related traits of large, grazing ungulates. Although this bottom-up perspective provides a foundation for understanding habitat supply and thus nutrition, foraging...
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Spring 2015
Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) enter a period of intensified feeding in the spring, which allows for the accumulation of energy stores critical to surviving the open water season. Study on polar bear predation has been limited by sample size and spatial extent, and hypotheses on the demographic...
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Ecology and management of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and mule deer (O. hemionus) of east-central Alberta in relation to chronic wasting disease
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Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal pathogen affecting white-tailed and mule deer in east-central Alberta, and I addressed two current limitations of CWD management. First, to improve precision and accuracy of density estimates obtained from aerial surveys, I evaluated alternative survey...
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Biological and environmental correlates of cougar (Puma concolor) survival in west central Alberta
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Large carnivores have a significant role in ecosystems and their role as apex predators can have cascading effects that influence ecosystem stability. Managing large carnivores requires an understanding of how they use the land and their vital rates, including survival. For cougars (Puma...
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Different scales of spatial segregation of two species of feather mites on the wings of a passerine bird
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Mestre, A., Mesquita-Joanes, F., Proctor, H., Monros, J. S.
The \"condition-specific competition hypothesis\" proposes that coexistence of 2 species is possible when spatial or temporal variations in environmental conditions exist and each species responds differently to those conditions. The distribution of different species of feather mites on their...