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2024-02-01
Based on concerns regarding recent declining water levels in Cooking Lake, a study was launched to investigate historic water levels, aiming to extend records into the early 1800s, prior to European settlement. This project links natural and human history by examining and connecting information...
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2024-02-01
Based on concerns regarding recent declining water levels in Cooking Lake, a study was launched to investigate historic water levels, aiming to extend records into the early 1800s, prior to European settlement. This project links natural and human history by examining and connecting information...
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2024-05-01
Based on concerns regarding recent declining water levels in Cooking Lake, a study was launched to investigate historic water levels, aiming to extend records into the early 1800s, prior to European settlement. This project links natural and human history by examining and connecting information...
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1993
Harrington, J.B., Flannigan, M.D.
Long dry spells (sequences of dry days) are rare events, but they are important because they correlate significantly with the area burned during bad wildfire years. Previous attempts to model the frequency of dry spells have been successful for spells of short duration, but have failed for...
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A range-wide common garden experiment of white spruce indicates population differentiation in drought tolerance traits
DownloadFall 2019
In western regions of the Canadian boreal forest, mean annual temperature has increased by 1.5 to 2.5 °C, significantly exceeding the mean global temperature increase. Climate conditions have also become drier and together these climate trends have induced widespread growth reductions, dieback...
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Adaptation of trembling aspen and hybrid poplars to frost and drought: implications for selection and movement of planting stock in western Canada
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This study contains a series of experiments to evaluate growth performance and survival of hybrid poplars (Populus spp.) and trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) in boreal planting environments in western Canada. Ecophysiological traits related to drought resistance and winter survival...
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An ecophysiological investigation of the jackpine woodland with reference to revegetation of mined sands
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This project was conceived as a multidisciplinary integrated study to determine the physiological limits of native and non-native species to dry, nutrient-poor environmental conditions on a steep-sided sand dike and on sand piles. Only when the limits of survival are known for native and...
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Dendrochronology and treeline dynamics within arctic and alpine localities in western and central Canada
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The transition from forest to tundra, commonly called treeline, is expected to advance, particularly in northern latitudes. Treeline in two subarctic locales: the western Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, and the western Hudson Bay Lowlands southeast of Churchill, Manitoba were studied,...
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Fall 2023
Global warming is contributing to extreme climatic events, especially at higher elevations and latitudes. Phytoplankton assemblages are highly sensitive to these climate-related environmental changes, which include heatwaves and drought events. Knowledge gaps exist concerning the cumulative...
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Ecophysiology And Carbon Allocation Of Aspen And Balsam Poplar Seedlings In Response To Drought
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Drought-induced forest mortality has been recorded in every forested continent. Although the effect of drought on plant growth, physiology and ecology have been extensively studied in the past, the physiological mechanism leading to plant mortality under drought conditions are far from being...