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Offsetting approved harmful anthropogenic impacts in the 21st century – Insights into global offsetting practices, habitat banking as an alternative offsetting mechanism and application of habitat enhancement in northern boreal lake systems
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Land-use change via human development is a major driver of biodiversity and habitat area loss and ecosystem function impairment. To reduce these impacts, billions of dollars are spent on environmental offsets, aimed to compensate for authorized negative impacts. Studies evaluating offset project...
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Mapping a Species-level Trophic and Non-trophic Multilayer Network of Known Interactions for Boreal Tetrapods of North America
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Mapping trophic and non-trophic species interactions and mapping ecosystem-wide ecological networks have become important research avenues in network ecology, but until recently these two avenues have been separate endeavors. Now, a framework exists to combine multiple interaction types into...
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Identifying historical climate-growth limitations of white spruce (Picea glauca) populations across North America
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Climate change may cause reduced forest productivity and higher tree mortality due to water deficits that result from increased evapotranspiration. Such limitations may occur in some areas of the North American boreal forest, where precipitation is low and warming trends are high. This thesis...
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The Technical Efficiency of Wildfire Suppression in Alberta, Canada: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
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Wildfire management agencies are increasingly interested in the efficiency of wildfire suppression as they work to protect human lives and communities from wildfire damages under constrained management budgets. In Alberta, climate change is expected to increase the length of the wildfire season...
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Fall 2020
Threatened woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) have experienced large range recessions and population declines across much of Canada’s boreal forest in the last century and have become a major focus of conservation efforts in the region. Habitat management strategies for woodland caribou...
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An evaluation of hitchhiker seedlings with native boreal species as a revegetation tool of industrially disturbed sites in Alberta, Canada
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Herbaceous forbs hitchhiked, or co-grown, with a woody species, is a solution to establish both native woody and herbaceous species at recently disturbed sites. The broad study objectives were to (1) assess the growth of fireweed hitchhiked with three deciduous woody species and one conifer over...
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Examination of the diversity and assembly processes of digenean trematode communities in Alberta, and the implications of spatio-temporal community dynamics on swimmer's itch transmission in recreational lakes
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The preservation of biodiversity on our planet is crucial to our health. However, we cannot preserve what we do not understand. Biodiversity surveys most often forget to include some of the most diverse organisms on our planet, the parasites. Historically given a bad rap because of the diseases...
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Transpiration Response of Residual Lodgepole Pine After Partial-cut and Strip-shelterwood Harvesting in Alberta's Southern Rocky Mountains
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Forest harvesting reduces forest canopy cover which can reduce evapotranspiration and affect the hydrologic regime of watersheds. Prior research has shown while transpiration is reduced by the removal of trees, it can also affect soil moisture and meteorological variables (e.g....
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Habitat Use in Undisturbed Forest and the Effect of Variable Retention Harvesting on Pollinator Assemblages (Apoidea, Syrphidae) in the Boreal Forest of Alberta
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While pollination in agricultural areas has been well studied, pollinators in forests have received much less attention, particularly in the boreal forest. Bees, especially native bees, and hoverflies are the two most important groups of pollinators providing crucial ecological and economical...
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Fall 2018
Understanding where and when populations occur is the first step to conservation and maintenance of biodiversity. Where human land-use overlaps with populations of conservation concern, population loss may occur, potentially reducing long-term persistence of species, particularly for those that...