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Catalogue Entry: Grassland vegetation community areal extent and distribution - Elk Island
Elk Island National Park uses land cover classification to determine spatial changes of grassland vegetation throughout the park. This measure relies on a supervised...-
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Catalogue Entry: Forest vegetation community areal extent and distribution - Elk Island
Elk Island National Park uses land cover classification to determine spatial changes of forest vegetation throughout the park. This measure relies on a supervised classification...-
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Catalogue Entry: Open water areal extent and distribution - Elk Island
Elk Island National Park monitors spatial changes to open water features throughout the park. This measure relies on an unsupervised classification of remotely-sensed...-
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Catalogue Entry: Forest area burned - Elk Island
Elk Island National Park uses the Area Burned Condition Class (ABCC) method to evaluate the ecological impact of fire on the landscape and the success of utilizing fire to...-
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Catalogue Entry: Forest primary productivity - Elk Island
Elk Island National Park monitors primary productivity to determine the health of forest vegetation throughout the park. This measure relies on remotely-sensed multispectral...-
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Catalogue Entry: Grassland primary productivity - Elk Island
Elk Island National Park monitors primary productivity to determine the health of grassland vegetation throughout the park. This measure relies on remotely-sensed multispectral...-
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Catalogue Entry: Rangeland health assessments- Elk Island
The Elk Island National Park monitors the functions and health of grassland and forest ecosystems that are influenced by herbivory. This includes monitoring vegetation...-
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Catalogue Entry: Avian diversity & abundance - Elk Island
Forest birds in Elk Island National Park are surveyed annually along 24 established routes, with 4 stations along each route. The stations are spaced 400-600 meters apart....-
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Catalogue Entry: Lake water quality - Elk Island
The Elk Island National Park monitors the lake water quality annually in two lakes by measuring parameters such as: nutrients, heavy metals, major ions, physical...-
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Catalogue Entry: Beaver abundance & distribution - Elk Island
Elk Island National Park measures beaver abundance and distribution every three years in the fall using aerial surveys to count beaver food caches.-
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Catalogue Entry: Bison populations - Elk Island
Elk Island National Park annually conducts an aerial census of bison populations of the entire park, as well as opportunistically surveying herd composition. Bison population...-
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Catalogue Entry: Amphibian occupancy - Elk Island
The Elk Island National Park annually monitors the change in amphibian occupancy by using call counts, including data collected by citizen scientists.-
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Catalogue Entry: Elk and moose populations - Elk Island
Elk Island National Park conducts an ungulate aerial surveys of the entire park, to census the elk and moose populations. The surveys are carried out in the late fall or winter...-
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Catalogue Entry: Situation of the Black Bear - La Mauricie
Sensitivity analyses indicate that a small drop in black bear survival rates greatly increases the risk of extinction in both females and males. Since the mortality rate of...-
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Catalogue Entry: Situation of medium-size carnivores - La Mauricie
The American marten (Martes americana), fisher (Martes pennanti) and Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) are predators that have a prominent place in the food chain of the forests in...-
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Catalogue Entry: Moose and Wolf Abundance - La Mauricie
Intensive tree cutting and certain silvicultural practices carried out around La Mauricie National Park have fragmented moose forest habitat. In addition, the eastern wolf plays...-
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Catalogue Entry: Water quality situation - La Mauricie
The effects of climate warming, eutrophication, air pollutant inputs and forestry activity that occurred before La Mauricie National Park was created influenced and continue to...-
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Catalogue Entry: Common Loon - La Mauricie
The number of common loons and their breeding range have decreased significantly since the beginning of the century. There is concern about the number of breeding pairs and the...-
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Catalogue Entry: Aquatic Frogs - La Mauricie
Frogs, like all other amphibians, are declining all around the world, in both pristine and protected areas as well as suburban marshes bordered by highways. This decline is due...-
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Catalogue Entry: Forest Non-Native Vegetation - Yoho
Yoho National Park monitors invasive alien plants with the use of permanent, random stratified, transects established in each of the three management zones, in close proximity...-
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