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Assessing the vulnerability of rare plants using climate change velocity, habitat connectivity and dispersal ability
DownloadFall 2015
Climate change generally requires species to migrate northward or to higher elevation to maintain constant climate conditions, but migration requirement and migration capacity of individual species can vary greatly. Individual populations of species occupy different positions in the landscape...
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Camera traps for evaluating ungulate densities and interspecific interactions in the Beaver Hills region of Alberta
DownloadSpring 2022
Interspecific interactions and species-habitat interactions are primary drivers in shaping distributions of wildlife populations across variable landscapes. The aspen parkland is a highly productive and heterogenous ecosystem characterized by a mosaic of habitat types maintained by disturbance...
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Fall 2013
Caribou (Rangifer tarandus L.) populations in Canada are threatened by climate change and anthropogenic landscape disturbance, which may negatively affect caribou energetics and range occupancy, with negative consequences for vital rates. Caribou are the basis of economy and spirituality for...
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Changes in peatland plant community composition and stand structure due to road induced flooding and desiccation
DownloadFall 2017
Roads built through peatlands with horizontal water flow can to act as dams that affect local hydrology and thus vegetation composition and structure. On the ‘upstream’ side of roads, soils can become waterlogged causing either increased tree mortality, or stunted tree growth; conversely, the...
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Fall 2016
Primates play an important role in the maintenance and functioning of tropical ecosystems. However, habitat loss due to land use conversion threatens the persistence of primates worldwide. Colombia has a diverse fauna of primates with 12% of its terrestrial territory protected under the country’s...
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Fall 2012
In western North America cougar populations are increasing and expanding eastward. Simultaneously, growing human populations are creating new challenges for managers charged with maintaining the viability of cougar populations and their ungulate prey. Information on how cougars respond to...
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Displacement and Mortality of Birds by High Voltage Transmission Lines in the Canadian Dry Mixed Prairie
DownloadFall 2018
Canadian grasslands are continuing to experience loss in habitat and degradation in quality due to agricultural expansion and fragmentation from roads, pipelines, and transmission lines. Today, only 43% of Canadian mixed grass prairie remains. This loss and fragmentation has led to a decline in...
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Distribution and breeding ecology of boreal and northern saw-whet owls in the Boreal forests of Alberta, Canada
DownloadSpring 2018
The boreal forest is an ecologically dynamic region with a long history of natural disturbances. These dynamics now run at a different and more rapid pace in Alberta because of land-use change, forestry, and developments in the energy industry. Although boreal owls Aegolius funereus and northern...
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Effect of weather during development on cranial morphometrics of American marten (Martes americana)
DownloadSpring 2024
Globally, climate change is affecting species in a myriad of ways. Rapid morphological change has been proposed to be a consequence of climate change, but evidence is minimal. Furthermore, any such rapid morphological change is expected to be a phenotypic response rather than evolutionary....
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Effectiveness of Retention Harvesting for Biodiversity Conservation: Evidence for Understory Vegetation and Wildlife
DownloadSpring 2018
Natural disturbance emulation is being used in forest management in an attempt to mitigate the negative effects of harvesting on biodiversity. In the western Canadian boreal forest where the predominant large-scale natural disturbance is wildfire, harvests that leave live mature trees behind at...