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| 20-01 - Yinghang Li Vegetation diversity across different land use types. |
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| 20-02 - Jonathan Farr Citizen science for human-coyote coexistence in Edmonton. |
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| 20-03 - Brittany Hynes Understory redevelopment on oil sands reclamation sites. |
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| 20-04 - Ronena Wolach Breeding season habitat selection of ferruginous hawks |
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| 20-05 - Kailee Goertzen, Zena Leclercq, Rachelle Renaud Quenching the thirst for indigenous rights to clean water. |
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| 20-06 - Cassandra Jordan, Jenna Hlewka, Taylor Thomeus Effectiveness of wildlife deterrents near roads and railways. |
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| 20-07 - Tara Androschuk Seed production of spruce trees in British Columbia |
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| 20-08 - Emilia Housch, Anthony Moir, Ashley Seib How is wolf predation affected by the presence and type of cutline?. |
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| 20-09 - Kaegan Finn, Rose Murawsky, Aidan Sheppard How do climate change and angling pressure affect the fitness and abundance of walleye in Canada? |
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| 20-10 - Zachary Antoniw, Marie-Eve Bedard, Veronique Caron Managing white nose syndrome: an urgent threat to Canadian bats. |
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| 20-11 - Danika Wack Caribou Management: A study on the effectiveness of different Caribou conservation measures. |
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| 20-12 - Emma Kary, Megan Ciocchetto, Christopher Chan, Leah Feng How is Climate Change Altering Alberta's Moisture Regime? |
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| 20-13 - Jared Randall, Kim Aasgard, Elyssa Rosadiuk Who’s bleaching my corals? Coral bleaching response to ocean temperatures. |
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| 20-14 - Mariah Casmey Budburst in white spruce. |
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| 20-15 - Kathryn Levesque Are climate envelopes shifting? |
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| 20-16 - Keyue Gong Greenhouse Gas Emissions: What is the trend and what may be the causations in past 50 years? |
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| Alex Kaulen Reality vs prediciton: the limits of biomass equation for small diameter trees. |
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| Ashley Hillman Lichen regeneration after forest fire: identifying woodland cariboo foraging habitat. |
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| Graeme Nordell Boreal invasion: migration of non-native plant species under cumulative disturbances. |
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| Jenny Hall Unpaved forestry road erosion in western Canada. |
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| Joe Silva Lichen regeneration after forest fire: identifying woodland cariboo foraging habitat. |
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| Kelly Mulligan Should I stay, or should I go? Shifts in East Kootenay elk migration patterns. |
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| Kira Dlusskaya Which greenhouse gas reduction practices are farmers willing to adopt? |
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| Laura Bony Salt affected soils: quantifying impacts to develop scientifically based remediation criteria for Alberta. |
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| Nick Brown Hitting a wall: the effect of amendments on root growth in lean oil sands. |
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| Rebecca Baldock Does clear-cut harvesting influence the concentration and aromaticity of dissolved organic carbon within the Old Man River watershed? |
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| Ryan Lalonde Growing woody plants in oil sands tailings |
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| Sophie LeBlanc Early forest development and vegetation colonization: the role of microtopography in reclamation sites. |
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| Sunit Bhanot How less visible aspects of hydrological processes affect us. |
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| Vinicius Goncalves Tree growth in response to climate variables in Argentina? |
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| Emily Cicon Can grizzly bears act as a surrogate species for songbirds? |
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| Gulshat Cherniyazova Possible change to snow cover areas of Kazakhstan. |
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| Hajo Spaethe Interpretive and preventive timber conservation treatments at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, Alberta. |
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| Jillian Cameron Does variation in lunar illumination alter anuran acoustic detectability? |
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| Jinhan Xie How does fire suppression efforts influence our forests? |
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| Kate Bezooyen Are FireSmart treatments really so smart?. |
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| Laura Garland Where the deer and the predators roam: an investigation of predator-prey temporal spacing in Alberta's northeastern boreal forests. |
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| Lauren Sinclair Do white spruce seedlings show physiological adaptations to drought? |
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| Logan Purdy Optimizing remotely sensed land surface phenology with leafing and flowering records from a citizen science observation network. |
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| Nadele Flynn Can we identify areas of Yukon’s arctic that are vulnerable to climate change? |
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| Raiany Silva Crossings disturbed by OHV use in wet and riparian areas: planting cuttings as a restoration method. |
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| Sara Venskaitis South Bison Hills Reclamation: Does Depth of Topsoil Affect Forest Reclamation Success? |
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| Ugbaad Kosar To plant or not to plant: guiding reforestation strategies of lodgepole pine in Europe. |
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| Zihaohan Sang Does the origin of seeds affect white spruce growth in response to climate? |
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| Adam Mathison Hitchhiker Planting: evaluation of mixed-species container stock in field conditions. |
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| Adewumi Adeyefa Growth and development of mixedwood stands of aspen and spruce. |
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| Ashley Hart The role of aspen root systems in water redistribution . |
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| Caitlin Willier A road runs through it: changes in plant community composition in forested wetlands. |
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| Caroline Martin Breeding bird responses to linear disturbance features in the grasslands of southeastern Alberta. |
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| Fuai Wang Effects of different types and concentrations of monoterpenes on mountain pine beetle symbiotic fungi. |
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| Jackson Beck Is constitutive chemical defense important for Lodgepole pine survival? |
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| Jennifer Li Provenance Testing in Europe: height models and comparison to predicted growth trends. |
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| Jill Sekely Protection needs analysis for native tree populations of Alberta. |
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| Jorge Grock Are biopolymers more efficient than synthetic polymers for consolidation and dewatering of oil sand tailings? |
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Katie Burd Wildfire and permafrost thaw effects on aquatic carbon cycling. |
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| Kensy Balch Do environmental policies actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions over time? |
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| Michelle Knaggs Birds in burns and bogs: How does fire severity influence bird assemblages in the boreal forest? |
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| Shauna Stack The Effects of subsoil, coversoil and planting density techniques on the establishment of planted vegetation. |
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| Trevor De Zeeuw Implication of microtopography on seedling growth at reclamation sites. |
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| Altaf Hussain Poor growing conditions and vulnerability of jack pine to mountain pine beetle attacks. |
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| Chengtao Yan N2O emission from agriculture: does no-tillage matter? |
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| Ellen Whitman
Burn severity and stand age in the western boreal forest. |
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| Emmi Lehtinen Natural regeneration of white spruce (Picea glauca) in Peace River. |
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| Hangfei Ge Natural regeneration in a degraded peatland: implications for forest restoration |
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| Kevin Hawkshaw Does timing of reproduction and seasonal prey abundance affect nestling survival in arctic Peregrine Falcons? |
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| Liam Hefferman How does above-ground functional diversity affect below-ground functional diversity? |
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| Matt Robinson Does Timber Retention Influence Terrestrial Habitat Use by Wood Frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus)? |
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| Sanat Kanekar Snaring beetles: stopping them in their tracks. |
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| Sarah McPike Attempts to enhance the success of a native parasitoid to control ash leaf-cone roller. |
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Sebastian Dietrich Improving capping materials for upland oil sands mine reclamation. |
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| Shiyang Zhao Natural lodgepole pine residuals after mountain pine beetle outbreaks in Alberta . |
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| Waqas Noor Does climate change influences the vulnerability of aspen? |
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| Zac Macdonald Using lake islands as natural models to measure the utilization of habitat fragments by butterflies. |
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| Alam Zeb Quantitative analysis and ranking the causes of deforestation in Pakistan. |
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| Alicia Kelly When are cariboo at most risk of death? |
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| Amanda St Onge
Invasion of the pea leaf weevil. |
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| Andrew Braid Don't feed the bears? |
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| Asha Wijerathna TBD |
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| Brittany Wingert TBD |
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| Bryan Maitland The culvert crisis. |
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| Erik Hedlin The effects of food supplementation on nestling growth and survival in arctic breeding peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus tundrius). |
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| Erin Maruca Protected area status of western North American forest trees and their exposure to climate change. |
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| Evren Hisarli TBD |
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François-Nicolas Robinne How mesoscal burn probability mapping is affected by landscape fragmentation. |
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| Hosen Alam Above-ground carbon stock in Guyana’s mangrove forest. |
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| Ivan Bjelanovic How much aspen density to prevent weevil attack to white spruce. |
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| Jana Bockstette Reforestation of poor mine spoils. |
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| Jennine Pedersen Climate change vulnerabilities and the success of assisted migrations to northern climates. |
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| Kyle Kipps Agriculture on gray luvisol soil, can it continue under climate change? |
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| Leah Girhiny TBD |
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| Lynn Gowman Large-scale climatic patterns and area burned by wildfire in Canada. |
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| Maria Herva Development of Finnish paper and pulp industry in years 1995-2008 and the accuracy of Verdoorn’s law. |
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| Michelle Speta Hyperspectral imaging for the estimation of bitumen content in oil sands core. |
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| Oleg Melnik Heat content and combustion of live fuels. |
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| Quinn Barber The velocity of climate change. |
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| Sarah Booth Documenting the media’s coverage of climate change in the Americas. |
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| Shuai Ding Does good malting barley make good feed barley for ruminants? |
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| Spencer Taft Geographic variation in jack pine (Pinus banksiana) chemistry and its effect on mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) pheromone production and aggregation. |
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| Weijuan Huang Is increased plasma n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid associated with improved insulin sensitivity in type-2 diabetes? |
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| Will Barnes What drives productivity in coarse textured soils of the Athabasca oil sands region? |
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| William Lebans Does relocation of Alberta's grizzly bears work? |
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| Rodrigo Campos Pine cones: keeping seeds from roasting. |
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| Charlie McLellan Can prescribed fire rescue Banff’s declining grizzly bear population? |
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| Carrie Nugent
Can LIDAR help us help grizzly bears? Using LIDAR to measure open-route densities in core and secondary Range. |
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| Sonya Odsen Boreal bird recovery from variable retention harvest. |
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| Katrina Adams What drives the distribution of an invasive algae species in the Yukon? |
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| Michelle Fraser Evaluating the performance of MCF fungicide in the control of blackleg (Leptosphaeria maculans) in canola |
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| Ronald Nyandoro Mitigation of sudden death syndrome (Fusarium sp.) of soybeans (Glycine max) in southern Alberta through fungicides and varietal resistance strategies. |
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| Mark Howell Substrate suitability for reclamation in the Athabasca oil sands region. |
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| Cassidy van Rensen An expanding grid of linear disturbance: key factors for restoring seismic lines. |
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| Guangyu Liu Targeted cisplatin delivery for non-small cell lung cancer treatment. |
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Guncha Ishankulieva Does the host tree species, lodgepole pine and jack pine, influence the attraction of mountain pine beetle? |
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| Devon Barnes Sprinkler efficacy trials: water distribution and fuel moisture absorption capacity. |
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| Jamal Taghavimehr Does tillage reversal decrease CO2 emissions from the soil? |
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| Jesse Watson Home range size and productivity of breeding ferruginous hawks. |
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| Nicola Bakker Fire, Retention and Regeneration (... and blackflies). |
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| Miriam Isaac-Renton Where should Europe get its Douglas-fir seeds from? |
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| Jeannine Goehing Hybrid poplar responses to alternative establishment systems. |
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| Kate Melnik Can slope exposure and coarse woody debris placement assist in understory seedling establishment and increase variability in plant communities on reclaimed sites? |
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| Tracy Amanda Introduction to agroforestry and tree-based intercropping. |
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| Katharina Liepe How frost hardy will populations of lodgepole pine and interior spruce be under a changing climate? |
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| Courtney Felton
Can pedometers detect estrus is tie-stall dairy cows? |
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| Said Darras Improving field-pea production using genotypic mixtures. |
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| Kirk Johnson
Encouraging tree intimacy: an alternative method to regenerate boreal mixedwoods. |
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| Sean Coogan
Getting to the root of the matter: grizzly bears and alpine sweetvetch. |
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| Arezoo Amini
How do soil depth and plant community affect Festuca growth in rebuilt native grassland? |
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| Yun Qi Sun Could wheat DDGS be a substitute of barley grain for early lactation cows? |
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| Nicholas Arkell Bio-densification of oil sand tailings. |
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| Kelly Kneteman Plant-assisted remediation of nitrogen fertilizer contaminated soil and groundwater at an industrial plant site. |
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| Yannick Neveux Exploring management strategies for woodland caribou in the Yukon in the face of increasing development pressures and climate change. |
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| Jillian Martin How good are we at recreating soil processes: a comparison of wildfire to land reclamation. |
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Hyejin Hwang Study on the relationship between leaf weight and crown conditions for loblolly pine (Pinus teada) in Ft. Benning in Georgia, US. |
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| Janet Ariss The mountain pine beetle: allies and enemies. |
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| Andre Christensen Reclamation of phosphogypsum stacks: the influence of soil capping depth and plant species on moisture dynamics. |
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| Owen Watkins Viability of Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) in the North Saskatchewan River, Alberta. |
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| Jarred Looft How many ugly ducklings are there? |
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| Najar Ahmed Do Symbiotic Alders Grow Better than Non Symbiotic ones even in Harsh Conditions? |
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| Amy Gainer Does irrigating willow with wastewater increase soil salinity? |
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| Aria Hahn Life After Oil: Microbial Communities in the Athabasca Oil-sands |
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| Candace Serben Did adaptive growth change tree sway patterns 10 years after thinning? |
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| Chen (Klaus) Ding Aspen budset phenology inferred from provenance trials and climate data |
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| Christina Williams Nitrogen Fixation in Cool Season Pulse Crops - Moving the Prairies Toward a More Sustainable Agricultural System |
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| Cory Kartz Does Entering a VBNC State Affect the Transport of E.coli O157:H7 in Soil and Groundwater? |
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| Xu Feng Leaf movement of black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) alleviate stress under different light and water conditions |
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| Fran Ferster Do transgenic tobacco plants inoculated with P. indica have increased biomass and hydraulic conductance under drought conditions? |
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| Gabriela Luna-Wolter Does woody debris affect soil properties and vegetation in oil sands areas? |
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Ghulam Murtaza Can protective clothing minimize the risk of burn injury in humans exposed to fire? |
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Hailong He How to protect the black soil from water erosion in Northeast China? |
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| Jianfeng Liu Evaluate yield losses of commercial pea cultivars due to downy mildew of pea (Peronospora viciae f. sp. pisi) |
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| Marija Chechina What Triggers Mass Flowering of Dipterocarp Forests in Southeast Asia? |
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| Mohammad Mezbahuddin Does scarcity of assets affect individual migration decisions? |
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| Nnenna Onwuchekwa The potential of ectomycorrhizal fungi in restoration of disturbed lands |
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| Quiang Xiao Do bait crops reduce the clubroot symptom severity of canola? |
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| Kapilan Ranganathan What is an efficient inhibitor of fermentation of Palmyrah sap? |
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| Manjila Rahman Shahid The influence of fabric thickness and mass on moisture absorbency |
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| Tyrel Hemsley Is athmospheric nitrogen deposition occuring in the Athabasca oil sands region on reclaimed landscapes? |
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| Wenquing Zhang Identification and Classification of Prickly Ash |
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| Brittany Does Increased Inclusion of Dietary Starch Improve Reproductive Performance in Post Partum Dairy Cows? |
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| Candace Nemirsky What is the impact of distance to pipeline construction on tiny cryptanthe (Cryptantha minima) and slender mouse ear cress (Halimolobos virgata) habitat? |
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| Claudia Lopez Animal Response to landscape disturbance and the implication of animal displacement |
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| Derek Rennie Significance of Plasmodiophora brassicae infestation in seedlots |
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| Devin Goodsman Does fertilization or thinning influence lodgepole pine’s ability to defend itself against Grosmannia clavigera? |
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| Evan Wildfire and salvage logging change benthic macroinvertebrate communities and food webs in oligotrophic headwater streams |
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| Haitao Li Aspen’s Budburst Inferred from Climate Data |
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| Janet Scott Can we see signs of water quality improvement when we keep cattle away from a stream? |
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| Kim Ives Is Education Having an Effect on University Student’s Attitudes? |
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| Kyle Lochhead How do Commercial Trees Grow Under Different Retention Rx’s? |
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Lance Steinke Enhancing Best Management Practices with Measures of Restoration Success in Jasper National Park, Alberta |
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Laura MacPherson Do Road/Stream Crossing Structures Fragment Stream Fish Populations? |
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| Marie-Claude Roy What Factors Influence Created and Natural Wetlands Vegetation Biomass and Species Diversity? |
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| Paul Clyburn Assessing the effectiveness of Acetic Acid and Lactic Acids as chemical washes to prevent bacterial contamination during food processing |
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| Seung-Il Lee Influence of patch size and decay class on saproxylic beetles |
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| Shari Clare Unintended outcomes? The impact of public policy on wetlands and biodiversity in Alberta |
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| Sithara Selecting an Appropriate Hybrid Poplar Clone: A Guide to the Future of Forestry |
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| Stefan Schreiber Hybrid poplars under stress: how does drought impact growth performance? |
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