With more than 7,000 image pairs from 19 summers of fieldwork, the Mountain Legacy Project reveals significant landscape changes in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Based at the University of Victoria, the project team works...
Mountain pine beetles have dramatically changed forest landscapes in Western North America by killing-off large areas of trees and changing soil communities. Soil community structure is complex, and tree death can create implications for...
Following recent reports of canopy cover increases in Alaska, northern Quebec, and in northern Russia, Myers-Smith et al. studied willow expansion on Herschel Island, a land mass of about 100 km2 reaching an elevation...
A 2014 study by Robert H. Fraser et. al attempts to understand the reasons behind shrub expansion into more northern climates and the decline in lichen patches in the Low Arctic region. The researchers...
A report by Rosie Simms and Oliver M. Brandes discusses “climate change and shifting hydrological conditions” placing British Columbia (BC) “into an increasingly uncertain water future.” (1) They have identified five water challenges in the...
Terrain alterations caused by permafrost thaw due to a warming climate are damaging the “rich archaeological record of the Arctic Coast and (is) impacting sites used today by traditional harvesters.” (15) To evaluate the...
Whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelm.) is a tree species found in high-elevation, cold, windy, or snowy areas. They are “often the first tree species to colonize open, treeless areas” with weak soil development such...
As visibility of the environmental effects of human activity increases so does the desire to understand their potential impact. Cumulative Effects Assessments (CEAs), “the process of systematically assessing impacts resulting from incremental, accumulating, and...
Global climate change has a significant impact on the ecology of our planet and human society. This issue has prompted Dr. Chapin to ask whether it is possible to sustain the benefits of social-ecological...
In Northwestern Canada, glaciers and permafrost have preserved ancient ground ice and glacial sediments dating back to the late Pleistocene, tens of thousands of years ago. However, recent climate changes have caused temperatures and...
#CanadianMountainNetwork seeking nominations for the Board of Directors and three Board committees (Research Management; Governance; and Finance, Audit, and Risk).
To learn more: http://canadianmountainnetwork.ca/opportunities/ Closes: August 10, 2020.
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