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Above, Beneath, and Within: Collaborative and Community-Driven Archaeological Remote Sensing Research in Canada
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This thesis investigates the application of geophysics and remote sensing techniques in community-driven and collaborative archaeology research in Canada. While these techniques have become common among some archaeologists, they have yet to be extensively used within the lens of Indigenous...
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Fall 2023
Housing affordability is an issue of increasing social, economic, and political importance in Canada. Concurrent with the broader cost of living crisis, Canadians are forced to spend growing proportions of their income on housing, with homeownership increasingly out of reach for many. However,...
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Applications of learning theory to human-bear conflict: the efficacy of aversive conditioning and conditioned taste aversion
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I tested the efficacy of aversive conditioning (AC) and conditioned taste aversion (CTA) on American black bears (Ursus americanus) in Whistler, British Columbia. Black bears subjected to 3-5 day AC programs responded by increasing their wariness toward humans, while control bears habituated. ...
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Fall 2017
Biodiversity loss endangers ecosystem services and is considered as a global change that may generate unacceptable environmental consequences on the Earth system. Global biodiversity observations are needed to provide a deep understanding of the biodiversity - ecosystem services relationship and...
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Fall 2016
Prairie wetlands provide many important ecosystem services including supporting biodiversity, improving water quality, preventing erosion, recharging groundwater, and attenuating floods. However, more than half of prairie wetlands in North America have been lost, primarily due to drainage for...
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Composition and structure of spider assemblages in layers of the mixedwood boreal forest after variable retention harvest
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Natural disturbances are important drivers of ecosystem change in the boreal forest and new approaches to sustainable forest management draw on natural disturbance patterns as a template for harvesting. The main premise for such approach is that species have evolved and adapted to stand-replacing...
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Designing an incentive program to reduce on-farm deforestation in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania
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This thesis is a set of two papers on the design of a ‘payment for ecosystem services’ (PES) program for the reduction of on-farm deforestation in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. The forests of this area are internationally recognized as one of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems;...