boreal forest

[′bȯr·ē·əl ′fär·əst]

(ecology)

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CPAWS estimates with current government regulation and clearance, upcoming oil and gas development will result in "300,000 hectares cleared, and 30,000 km of roads built; leaving 80 percent of the remaining boreal forest within 250 m of a road, pipeline or well site.

The Tree Whisperer: A\J talks to world renowned author, medical chemist, botanist and now filmmaker--Diana Beresford-Kroeger

The garden design is a tribute to the beauty of Canadas boreal forest.

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That means it would make sense to pump almost $10 billion this year into cutting carbon losses from the boreal forest in Northern Ontario.

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To better understand the consequences of this source-sink relationship, I compared body mass and condition of adult females in boreal forest and adjacent meadows using data accumulated between 2000 and 2013.

Factors governing the distribution and abundance of Arctic ground squirrels

Almost wherever you are in the United States at this time of year, the birds of the boreal forest bridge the distant reaches of our planet and your backyard.

Saving Canada's Boreal Forest

Post-fire vegetation establishment in the boreal forest generally follows 1 of 2 pathways: self-replacement or relay floristics (Dyrness et al.

Effects of variable fire severity on forage production and foraging behavior of moose in winter

Key words: boreal forest, foraging distances, Little Brown Myotis, Myotis lucifugus, radiotelemetry, roost sites, Yukon

Roost-site selection and movements of Little Brown Myotis (Myotis lucifugus) in southwestern Yukon

The effects of global warming on Canada's Boreal forest are likely to include shifting food supplies, increasing numbers of damaging wildfires in forests, more droughts in wetlands and potentially dramatic changes in vegetation and the relationships between predators and prey.

Dear EarthTalk: how is it that migrating birds are being negatively affected by oil extraction in Canada's Boreal forest?

The finding pokes holes in a long-held idea that carbon in boreal forests accumulates mainly above ground in a litter of pine needles, mosses and leaves.

Fungi pull carbon into forest floor: organisms work with trees to trap organic material in soil

the boreal forest, it was all small berries and nectar.

Golden Warbler (Dendroeca aestiva)

A management plan was created for the land, which sits in the transition zone between aspen parkland and the boreal forest, in the mid-1990s, indicating that there is a "high habitat capability for wildlife" including black bear, beaver, coyote, mink, otter, muskrat and wolf and northern flying squirrel.

Controversy surrounds land sale at Fur Lake

The habitats range from boreal forest and rocky coastlines to mangrove wetlands and coral reefs.