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Responses in butterflies to loss and fragmentation of boreal forests from in situ oil sands
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Anthropogenic loss and fragmentation of habitat are a threat to biodiversity, while increasing demands for energy have made the provision of fossil fuels an important source of disturbance to habitats around the globe. In Alberta, Canada, the extraction of a 142,000 km2 oil sands reserve is...
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Restoration of Degraded Trail Crossings in Wet and Riparian Areas Using Balsam Poplar Cuttings, Blue Rapids Provincial Recreation Area, Alberta
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Protected areas are established and maintained in Alberta, Canada for the conservation and preservation of natural features and to facilitate their use and enjoyment for outdoor recreation and education. The use of off-highway vehicles (OHV) is a popular recreational activity in Alberta’s parks....
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Restoration Of Sagebrush Grassland For Greater Sage Grouse Habitat In Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan
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Populations of Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus Bonaparte [Phasianidae]; hereafter Sage-grouse) have been in decline in North America for the last 100 years; since 1988, the Canadian population has declined by 98 %. Initial declines of Sage-grouse populations were likely due to...
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Restoring Native Grassland Function in Urban Environment: Implications for Soil-Plant Relations
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The area of rough fescue prairie has been reduced in Western Canada because of human activities. Larch Park is an Edmonton residential development area to which land reclamation and restoration ecology have been applied to rebuild natural grasslands instead of turf grasses. By using salvaged...
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Fall 2013
Boreal peatlands are widely considered as an important carbon sink. Peat moisture is important for controlling carbon sequestration and smouldering combustion. Retrieving surface moisture is of great interest for carbon budget modelling and fire management in peatlands. To monitor at a large...