• 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 ...
• Invasive species removal and changing fire regimes in a lək̓ʷəŋən Garry oak ecosystem 

  Lysgaard, Cole (2022-01-31)

  This thesis examines restoration of Garry oak ecosystems in Southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Before the arrival of European settlers, Coast Salish peoples practiced intensive stewardship and cultivation practices ...
• Evaluating return-on-investment from vine to wine: sensory evaluation and consumer willingness-to-pay of vineyard management strategies for Vancouver Island Pinot gris 

  Macfarlane, Mitchell (2022-01-21)

  Cluster thinning, leaf removal and kaolin application are three commonly employed means of modifying fruit zone microclimates assumed to improve grape and wine quality. High labour costs in addition to the potential for ...
• Investigating the role of climate warming on vegetation productivity and shrub distributions in the Beaufort Delta region of Canada 

  Seider, Jordan Hillel (2021-12-02)

  Climate warming across the circumpolar north has driven rapid shifts in vegetation productivity and structure, altering the community composition and function of tundra ecosystems. In my MSc thesis, I examined the biophysical ...
• The effects of environmental change on fish availability in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region 

  Chila, Alexander Kaleb Einar (2021-09-23)

  Rapid climate change is altering Arctic ecosystems and affecting the lifeways of Arctic Indigenous peoples. For the six Inuvialuit communities in the Canadian Arctic, access to fish is an important source of food and ...
• Terrain and climate effects mediate change in surface water across the western Canadian Arctic and Subarctic 

  Travers-Smith, Hana (2021-09-13)

  Rising temperature and precipitation are driving widespread changes in the area of surface water across the Arctic and sub-Arctic. Previous work suggests that broad-scale increases in surface water area are occurring in ...
• Mountains on Fire: Making Sense of Change in Waterton Lakes National Park 

  Buunk, Cassandra Jana (2021-08-20)

  In 2017 the Kenow wildfire burned thirty-eight percent of Waterton Lakes National Park (WLNP) in southern Alberta at high to very high severity in mere hours. The ecological impacts of the fire will have implications for ...
• Present day plant communities as a legacy of Indigenous management over millennia 

  Hunter, Kalina (2021-08-09)

  Human activities have fundamentally shaped ecosystems across the globe. While this is often associated with degradation, cultures with alternative philosophies can leave a different kind of legacy. First Nations in the ...
• Not so clear cut: gender-based violence in BC's tree planting industry 

  Long, Jennie (2021-07-26)

  Resource and other outdoor-related industries are frequently described as male-dominated sites of toxic masculinity, resulting in gender-based violence for women and gender-diverse labourers therein. Despite the mounting ...
• Cultivating solutions: oyster farmers’ responses to environmental change in British Columbia 

  Mallows, Catriona Joelle (2021-05-27)

  Climate change is already impacting many coastal ecosystems and the communities that depend upon them. Efforts to mitigate and adapt to it will likely further strain these socio-ecological systems. This points to the need ...
• “Eating our culture”: intersections of culturally grounded values-based frameworks and Indigenous food systems restoration in Secwepemcúl̓ecw 

  Chisholm, Libby Jay (2021-01-11)

  Indigenous values, epistemologies, and indicators have always been ways of teaching and learning about change, and planning for the future. Indigenous food systems are central capacities supporting social-ecological ...
• The effects of climate change and fire on tundra vegetation change in the western Canadian Arctic 

  Chen, Angel (2021-01-04)

  Rapid climate change is driving increases in tundra vegetation productivity and altering the frequency and severity of natural disturbances across the Arctic. While tundra vegetation change has been widespread, there is ...

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