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A functional perspective on the analysis of land use and land cover data in ecology

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

A habitat-based framework for grizzly bear conservation in Alberta

article by Scott E. Nielsen et al published June 2006 in Biological Conservation

A spatially explicit method for evaluating accuracy of species distribution models

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Accelerated seed dispersal along linear disturbances in the Canadian oil sands region

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

Advances in phenology are conserved across scale in present and future climates

scientific article published in 2019

Airborne laser scanning for modelling understory shrub abundance and productivity

scientific article published in 2016

An aerial-photographic assessment of reenacted handcart treks on a section of the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail, Fremont County, Wyoming

scientific article

Application of random effects to the study of resource selection by animals.

scientific article published on July 2006

Application of the Conservation Planning Tool Zonation to Inform Retention Planning in the Boreal Forest of Western Canada

scientific article published in 2020

Assessing Nutritional Parameters of Brown Bear Diets among Ecosystems Gives Insight into Differences among Populations

scientific article published on 17 June 2015

Assessing the nutritional consequences of switching foraging behavior in wood bison

scientific article

Avian Response to Wildfire Severity in a Northern Boreal Region

scientific article published in 2020

Behavioral habitat selection of wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) in boreal forests

scientific article published in 2023

Boreal Owl (Aegolius funereus) and Northern Saw-whet Owl(Aegolius acadicus) breeding records in managed boreal forests

Can models of presence-absence be used to scale abundance? Two case studies considering extremes in life history

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Can natural disturbance-based forestry rescue a declining population of grizzly bears?

scholarly article by Scott E. Nielsen et al published September 2008 in Biological Conservation

Capacity of large-scale, long-term biodiversity monitoring programmes to detect trends in species prevalence

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Characterizing a Decade of Disturbance Events Using Landsat and MODIS Satellite Imagery in Western Alberta, Canada for Grizzly Bear Management

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Climate‐change refugia in boreal North America: what, where, and for how long?

article by Diana Stralberg et al published June 2020 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Combining aggregated and dispersed tree retention harvesting for conservation of vascular plant communities

scientific article published on 31 July 2018

Comparing patterns in forest stand structure following variable harvests using airborne laser scanning data

scientific article published in 2015

Composite Effects of Cutlines and Wildfire Result in Fire Refuges for Plants and Butterflies in Boreal Treed Peatlands

scientific article published in 2019

Corrigendum to “A forest structure habitat index based on airborne laser scanning data” [Ecol. Indic. 67 (August) (2016) 346–357]

scholarly article published in Ecological Indicators

DESIGN AND INSTALLATION OF A CAMERA NETWORK ACROSS AN ELEVATION GRADIENT FOR HABITAT ASSESSMENT

article by Christopher W. Bater et al published May 2011 in Instrumentation Science and Technology

Decoupling habitat fragmentation from habitat loss: butterfly species mobility obscures fragmentation effects in a naturally fragmented landscape of lake islands

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Demographic effects on fruit set in the dioecious shrub Canada buffaloberry (Shepherdia canadensis).

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Density-dependent signaling: An alternative hypothesis on the function of chemical signaling in a non-territorial solitary carnivore

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

Determining the influence of snow and temperature on the movement rates of wood bison (Bison bison athabascae)

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Developing a population target for an overabundant ungulate for ecosystem restoration

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Development and application of an antibody-based protein microarray to assess physiological stress in grizzly bears (Ursus arctos)

scientific article published on 26 February 2016

Direct and Indirect Effects of Overstory Canopy and Sex-Biased Density Dependence on Reproduction in the Dioecious Shrub Shepherdia canadensis (Elaeagnaceae)

scientific article published on 20 January 2020

Does learning or instinct shape habitat selection?

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Does sex matter? Temporal and spatial patterns of cougar-human conflict in British Columbia

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Dose-Response Calculator for ArcGIS

article published in 2011

Dynamic patterns in winter ungulate browse succession in the Boreal Plains of Alberta

scientific article published in 2021

Dynamic wildlife habitat models: Seasonal foods and mortality risk predict occupancy-abundance and habitat selection in grizzly bears

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Early Regeneration Dynamics of Pure Black Spruce and Aspen Forests after Wildfire in Boreal Alberta, Canada

scientific article published in 2020

Effects of Fire Severity and Woody Debris on Tree Regeneration for Exploratory Well Pads in Jack Pine (Pinus banksiana) Forests

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Effects of Lakes on Wildfire Activity in the Boreal Forests of Saskatchewan, Canada

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Effects of habitat quality and access management on the density of a recovering grizzly bear population

article by Clayton T. Lamb et al published 9 January 2018 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Effects of oil sands disturbances on shrub and tree structure along forest edges in Alberta's boreal forest

scientific article published in 2023

Environmental, biological and anthropogenic effects on grizzly bear body size: temporal and spatial considerations.

scientific article

Erratum to: Landscape-Scale Factors Affecting Feral Horse Habitat Use During Summer Within The Rocky Mountain Foothills

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Estimating Understory Temperatures Using MODIS LST in Mixed Cordilleran Forests

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Evaluating resource selection functions

article by Mark Boyce et al published November 2002 in Ecological Modelling

Examining forest resilience to changing fire frequency in a fire-prone region of boreal forest

scientific article published on 24 January 2019

Experimental test of assisted migration for conservation of locally range-restricted plants in Alberta, Canada

scientific article published on 27 February 2019

Fine-spatial scale predictions of understory species using climate- and LiDAR-derived terrain and canopy metrics

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Fire and forest recovery on seismic lines in sandy upland jack pine ( Pinus banksiana ) forests

scientific article published in 2018

Forbidden fruit: human settlement and abundant fruit create an ecological trap for an apex omnivore

scientific article published on 28 September 2016

From human invaders to problem bears: A media content analysis of grizzly bear conservation

scientific article published in 2020

Functional macronutritional generalism in a large omnivore, the brown bear.

scientific article published on 29 January 2018

Gene flow and climate-associated genetic variation in a vagile habitat specialist

scientific article published on 18 August 2020

Grizzly bear connectivity mapping in the Canada-United States trans-border region

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Grizzly bear response to spatio-temporal variability in human recreational activity

article by Andrew Ladle et al published 22 October 2018 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Grizzly bears and forestry: I. Selection of clearcuts by grizzly bears in west-central Alberta, Canada

scholarly article

Habitat selection of a re-colonized cougar population in response to seasonal fluctuations of human activity

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High Precision Altimeter Demonstrates Simplification and Depression of Microtopography on Seismic Lines in Treed Peatlands

scientific article published in 2019

Idiosyncratic responses of grizzly bear habitat to climate change based on projected food resource changes.

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Impact of disturbance characteristics and age on grizzly bear habitat selection

article by Benjamin P. Stewart et al published May 2012 in Applied Geography

Landscape estimates of carrying capacity for grizzly bears using nutritional energy supply for management and conservation planning

article by Cameron J.R. McClelland et al published August 2021 in Journal for Nature Conservation

Landscape-Scale Factors Affecting Feral Horse Habitat Use During Summer Within The Rocky Mountain Foothills

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Large carnivore habitat suitability modelling for Romania and associated predictions for protected areas

scientific article published on 19 March 2019

Latitudinal and seasonal plasticity in American bison Bison bison diets

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Linking genotype, ecotype, and phenotype in an intensively managed large carnivore

scientific article published on 04 December 2013

Linking ground-based to satellite-derived phenological metrics in support of habitat assessment

Localized disturbances from oil sands developments increase butterfly diversity and abundance in Alberta's boreal forests

article by Federico Riva et al published January 2018 in Biological Conservation

Macronutrient optimization and seasonal diet mixing in a large omnivore, the grizzly bear: a geometric analysis

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Macrorefugia for North American trees and songbirds: Climatic limiting factors and multi-scale topographic influences

article by Diana Stralberg et al published 3 April 2018 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Modelling the spatial distribution of human-caused grizzly bear mortalities in the Central Rockies ecosystem of Canada

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Narrow anthropogenic corridors direct the movement of a generalist boreal butterfly

scientific article published in February 2018

Narrow anthropogenic linear corridors increase the abundance, diversity, and movement of bees in boreal forests

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Natural regeneration of forest vegetation on legacy seismic lines in boreal habitats in Alberta’s oil sands region

Ombrotrophic peatlands: natural, holistic, integrated, long-term monitoring systems for atmospheric deposition of environmental contaminants to terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems

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Perceptual Range, Targeting Ability, and Visual Habitat Detection by Greater Fritillary Butterflies Speyeria cybele (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) and Speyeria atlantis

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Persistent impact of conventional seismic lines on boreal vegetation structure following wildfire

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Predicting Occurrence, Abundance, and Fruiting of a Cultural Keystone Species to Inform Landscape Values and Priority Sites for Habitat Enhancements

scientific article published on 22 July 2020

Predicting mule deer recruitment from climate oscillations for harvest management on the northern Great Plains

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Prioritizing Sites for Protection and Restoration for Grizzly Bears (Ursus arctos) in Southwestern Alberta, Canada

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Prioritizing human safety and multispecies connectivity across a regional road network

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Quantifying grizzly bear selection of natural and anthropogenic edges

article by Benjamin P. Stewart et al published 4 March 2013 in Journal of Wildlife Management

REVIEW: Can habitat selection predict abundance?

scientific article published on 26 February 2015

Range-wide patterns of greater sage-grouse persistence

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Remote sensing proxies of productivity and moisture predict forest stand type and recovery rate following experimental harvest

scientific article published in 2015

Removing GPS collar bias in habitat selection studies

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Sampling plant diversity and rarity at landscape scales: importance of sampling time in species detectability

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Scale-dependent complementarity of climatic velocity and environmental diversity for identifying priority areas for conservation under climate change.

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Seasonal Variation in Habitat Selection by Free-Ranging Feral Horses Within Alberta’s Forest Reserve

scientific article published in 2013

Seismic Line Disturbance Alters Soil Physical and Chemical Properties Across Boreal Forest and Peatland Soils

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Seismic line width and orientation influence microclimatic forest edge gradients and tree regeneration

scientific article published in 2021

Space-use, movement and dispersal of sub-adult cougars in a geographically isolated population

scientific article published on 6 August 2015

Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity Creates a “Brown Tide” in Root Phenology and Nutrition

article published in 2012

Species richness is a surrogate for rare plant occurrence, but not conservation value, in boreal plant communities

scientific article published in 2019

Species traits modify the species-area relationship in ground-beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages on islands in a boreal lake

scientific article published on 20 December 2017

Survival and growth of residual trees in a variable retention harvest experiment in a boreal mixedwood forest

scientific article published in 2018

The ecology of human-carnivore coexistence

scientific article published on 06 July 2020

The extent and magnitude of edge effects on woody vegetation in road‐bisected treed peatlands in boreal Alberta, Canada

scientific article published in 2022

The theory of island biogeography, the sample-area effect, and the habitat diversity hypothesis: complementarity in a naturally fragmented landscape of lake islands

scientific article published in November 2018

Topographic and vegetation drivers of thermal heterogeneity along the boreal–grassland transition zone in western Canada: Implications for climate change refugia

scientific article published in 2022

Toward a climate‐informed North American protected areas network: Incorporating climate‐change refugia and corridors in conservation planning

scientific article published on 07 April 2020

Trophic cascades: linking ungulates to shrub‐dependent birds and butterflies

scientific article published on June 25, 2013

Trophic interactions among vertebrate guilds and plants shape global patterns in species diversity

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Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Monitoring Recovery of Forest Vegetation on Petroleum Well Sites

Using Risk Assessment and Habitat Suitability Models to Prioritise Invasive Species for Management in a Changing Climate

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Using airborne laser scanning to predict plant species richness and assess conservation threats in the oil sands region of Alberta’s boreal forest

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Using digital time-lapse cameras to monitor species-specific understorey and overstorey phenology in support of wildlife habitat assessment

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Using spatial mark-recapture for conservation monitoring of grizzly bear populations in Alberta

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

Vegetation composition, dynamics, and management of a bracken-grassland and northern-dry forest ecosystem

scientific article published in June 2003

Velocity of climate change algorithms for guiding conservation and management

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Wildfire-mediated vegetation change in boreal forests of Alberta, Canada

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