• Leading with Indigenous Principles: Ecological Watershed Governance in British Columbia, Canada 

  Ball, Murray (2023-11-16)

  Both Indigenous and state governments grapple with drivers of ecological decline in colonial states. Ecological drivers such as resource extraction and climate warming meet in the realm of shared land and water governance. ...
• Green Afterlives: Green Burial as an Environmental Land Use in Settler-Colonial British Columbia 

  Gawron, Gillian (2023-09-25)

  “Green burial” is a form of death care in which cemeteries are made to restore a “natural” ecosystem, rather than a lawn-style landscape. While it has grown in popularity in recent years, the implications of green burial ...
• Taking Care of Ts’aay’imts: Multi-level Governance of Eelgrass as a Blue Carbon Ecosystem 

  Woodbury, Lilly (2023-09-11)

  Governance is consistently cited as one of the major challenges to achieving conservation objectives. This observation applies to the current regulatory and policy landscape in British Columbia (BC) for blue carbon ecosystems ...
• Evaluating Viticulture Manipulations Effects on Glycoside Abundance and Diversity in Vancouver Island Pinot Gris 

  Watts, Andrew (2023-09-07)

  Common techniques to modify growing conditions of wine grapes such as leaf removal, kaolin application and cluster thinning are assumed to improve grape quality. Abundance and diversity of appropriate aroma compounds are ...
• Camas (Camassia leichtlinii (Baker) S. Watson, C. quamash (Pursh) Greene) functional trait responses to urban pressures in Greater Victoria 

  Rolleman, Erin (2023-08-31)

  Coastal oak meadows are fragmented across an increasingly urbanized landscape in Greater Victoria with implications for great and common camas (qʷɫəɫ/KȽO,EL/Camassia leichtlinii and C. quamash) success. Both camas species ...
• Can you taste sustainability?: Connecting product source and soil health to organoleptic performance 

  de Jongh, Alexa (2023-05-31)

  Taste and price tend to have a greater influence on food choices than extrinsic motivations such as nutrition and environmental performance. The connection between the taste of agricultural products and production methods ...
• The relative impacts of recreational activity and landscape protection on a Rocky Mountain mammal community 

  Eliuk, Laura (2023-05-31)

  Modern human expansion and landscape development has substantially restructured natural landscapes with cascading impacts on biodiversity, resulting in population declines and range contractions in many North American large ...
• The ecological effects of storm surges on Arctic bird and vegetation communities in the outer Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories 

  Shipman, Frances Nicola Angus (2023-05-01)

  Coastlines in the Western Canadian Arctic are predicted to experience increases in the frequency and intensity of storm surges as rapid climate change continues to alter weather and biophysical factors of this land-sea ...
• Examining spatial biases in the community science platform, iNaturalist, using British Columbia, Canada, as a case study 

  Geurts, Ellyne (2023-04-28)

  The ever-growing interest in community science platforms like iNaturalist and eBird is ushering in a new era of biodiversity and ecology research where researchers are overflowing with data across large geographical and ...
• Commercial fishing gear loss in Canada's Pacific Ocean: answering the why, where, and how with a mixed methods, transdisciplinary approach 

  Frenkel, Caitlin (2023-04-28)

  Derelict fishing gear comprises a large portion of the world’s marine plastic pollution, causing damage to marine habitats, wildlife, and fishing industries globally. To mitigate these issues, managers and marine stakeholders ...
• Shelter from the storm: Identifying climate change refugia for British Columbia’s coastal birds under future climate scenarios 

  Galloway, Julie (2023-04-26)

  The dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change pose a complex challenge for conservation management. This study highlights the identification of climate change refugia for coastal birds in British Columbia (B.C.), ...
• Examining shifts in boreal carnivore species’ resource selection in response to predator control to conserve woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in western Canada 

  Baillie-David, Katherine (2022-10-05)

  Predators play a critical role in regulating the structure and function of ecosystems by exhibiting top-down forces on lower trophic levels. Despite their important contributions in maintaining ecosystem health, lethal ...
• “UNSETTLING LANDSCAPES: APPLICATIONS OF ETHNOBOTANICAL RESEARCH IN DEFINING ABORIGINAL RIGHTS AND RE-AFFIRMING INDIGENOUS LAWS IN T’SOU-KE TERRITORY, VANCOUVER ISLAND AND BEYOND.” 

  Spalding, Pamela (2022-10-04)

  In this dissertation, I explore how, in Canada, Indigenous people’s relationships with culturally-significant plant species are an expression of Aboriginal rights, and I ask how these rights can be affirmed and exercised ...
• Ecological understandings of Indigenous landscape management shape the study of Pacific yew (Taxus brevifolia) 

  Reynolds, Geneviève (2022-09-02)

  Indigenous landscape management has transformed ecosystems for millennia, with long-lasting impacts on the productivity and abundance of plant species. While western science based ecological research is beginning to ...
• Understanding lək̓ʷəŋən soils: The foundation of environmental stewardship in coastal anthropogenic prairies 

  Lowther, Emma (2022-07-20)

  Long-term human habitation introduces morphological and chemical changes to soil as a result of cultural, economic, and stewardship practices. These cultural soils, or Anthrosols, are recognized globally. On the Northwest ...
• Ecological legacies of Stoney Nakoda stewardship in a montane grassland: a century of vegetation change in Egnuck Wida and the Kootenay Plains Ecological Reserve 

  Schepens, Gabriel B (2022-05-03)

  In the Canadian Rocky Mountains, landscape patterns have changed dramatically in the last 150 years. Management transitions shift landscape vegetation patterns, and areas previously stewarded by Indigenous inhabitants are ...
• Multispectral imaging of Sphagnum canopies: measuring the spectral response of three indicator species to a fluctuating water table at Burns Bog 

  Elves, Andrew (2022-05-02)

  Northern Canadian peatlands contain vast deposits of carbon. It is with growing urgency that we seek a better understanding of their assimilative capacity. Assimilative capacity and peat accumulation in raised bogs are ...
• When the flame goes out: an exploration of landscape change using repeat photography related to Indigenous burning in Kananaskis Country, Alberta 

  Frederickson, Maya (2022-05-02)

  Fire exclusion has defined 20th century forestry practices in North America and produced many unintended consequences. In the Canadian Rocky Mountains, the removal of fire from the landscape caused significant landscape ...
• Moving at a glacial pace: a biogeomorphological analysis of ecological succession in recently deglaciated terrain in the Selkirk Range, BC 

  Lincoln, Astra (2022-05-02)

  This research developed a novel workflow for combining different types and scales of data to understand the development of small, steep, and sheltered glacial forefields across space and time using the Avalanche glacier ...
• Industrial landscape changes alter fine-scale mammal diversity and mammalian predator–prey dynamics in the northwest Nearctic 

  Aubertin-Young, Macgregor (2022-04-28)

  Biodiversity has been heavily impacted by anthropogenic landscape changes associated with natural resource extraction. Terrestrial mammals, which disproportionately maintain ecosystem functions, are among the species most ...

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