Canadian Prairies
First Nations Women and Sustainability on the Canadian Prairies
... First Nations Women and Sustainability on the Canadian Prairies B R E N D A M C L E O D Le dkueloppement durable chez les Premitres Nations des provinces des prairies canadiennes sera compris h havers[.] ...
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Weather and Climate Extremes on the Canadian Prairies: An Assessment with a Focus on Grain Production
... In this study, we have identified summer weather and climate extremes on the Canadian prairies during May-July, the critical growing period for grain and oilseed crops such as wheat, canola and barley. The ...
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Cropping frequency and N fertilizer effects on soil water distribution from spring to fall in the semiarid Canadian prairies
... The Swift Current crop rotation experiment was initi- ated in 1967 on a flat (slope < 2%) Swinton loam [25], an Orthic Brown Chernozem [26]. Swift Current (50˚17′ N, 107˚48′ W, elevation 883 m) is located in the ...
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Combined impacts of ENSO and MJO on the 2015 growing season drought on the Canadian Prairies
... The aforementioned SST variations mostly vary on inter- annual and decadal scales. Another important factor that af- fects the weather patterns in North America is the Madden– Julian Oscillation (MJO), an intra-seasonal ...
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Have You Heard the One About the Farmer's Daughter? Gender Bias in the Intergenerational Transfer of Farm Land on the Canadian Prairies
... HaveYou Heard the One About the Farmer's Daughter? Gender bias in the Intergenerational Transfer of Farm Land on the Canadian Prairies E L L A FORBES CHILIBECK Les fermes dans les prairies canadiennes[.] ...
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Hydrological effects of the temporal variability of the multiscaling of snowfall on the Canadian prairies
... The Canadian prairies are a cold, semi-arid region prone to prolonged droughts. Consequently, the potential effects of climate change on water resources are of great interest. Prairie streamflow is ...
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Midwinter melts in the Canadian prairies: energy balance and hydrological effects
... the Canadian prairies dif- fer markedly from the mountainous areas despite the shared importance of snowmelt-driven hydrological ...the Canadian prairies (Fulton, ...the prairies and ...
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Sex Ratio, Body Mass, and Harvest Rates for Five Sympatric Mammalian Carnivores in the Canadian Prairies
... This research was funded by the Delta Waterfowl Foundation, the Institute for Wetland and Waterfowl Research of Ducks Unlimited Inc., with logistic sup- port from the Canadian Wildlife Service. D. Gordon, B. ...
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Taxonomic survey of Agaricomycetes (Fungi: Basidiomycota) in Ontario tallgrass prairies determined by fruiting body and soil rDNA sampling
... Most grassland surveys, including our own, encoun- tered species associated with living or dead trees and shrubs. Wood decomposers may appear when deadfall is available or on litter with enough lignin content (e.g., ...
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Agronomic Advancement in Tillage, Crop Rotation, Soil Health and Genetic Gain in Durum Wheat Cultivation: a 17-year Canadian Story
... the Canadian prairies, durum wheat, similar to hard red spring wheat, was traditionally grown in summerfallow-cereal-cereal or continuous cereal systems ...the Canadian prairie show that during ...
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Assessing the environmental impact of ruminant production systems
... Assessment of grazing management on farm greenhouse gas intensity of beef production systems in 388. the Canadian Prairies using life cycle assessment[r] ...
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... Additionally, suitability studies, based on the botanical and physical characteristics of remnant Piedmont prairies, have also been presented. For example, Taecker (2007) used two multivariate modeling tools in ...
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Conservation through an Agroecological Lens
... The grasslands in question are known as Blackland Prairies and commonly called the Black Belt. They exist on limestone formations (i.e., highly alkaline) of Cretaceous age that reach the surface in selected areas ...
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Language Use and Language Attitude among Ukrainian Canadians on the Prairies: An Ethnographic Analysis
... Elizabeth was in her late thirties or early forties at the time of the interview. A second generation Canadian, Elizabeth is a stay-at-home mother. She was raised in small mining towns in Northern Manitoba, then ...
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Community environmental attitudes : a study of the changing attitudes in the Lake Ellesmere-Te Waihora community in the twentieth century
... Prince (1997), for example, noted similar changes in the focus of wetland activities in the United States, from an interest in the draining of swamps and prairies during t[r] ...
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Impacts of climate variability on wetland salinization in the North American prairies
... It can be seen that until 2010 the pond EC was of the order of 100–500 µS cm −1 , meaning the pond would be classified as fresh. The salt mass in the pond during this period was of the order of 500 kg. Average conditions ...
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Remnant Prairies on the Shallow Limy Range Site in North Central Texas.
... Mean percentage composition and basal cover of major grass species on eleven remnant shallow limy stands in Western Kansas.. Although these three species were domi[r] ...
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Disturbance and the Community Composition of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Ontario Tallgrass Prairies
... In this study, 13 tallgrass prairies (TGPs) in Ontario were sampled to characterize arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in disturbed and undisturbed TGPs. Understanding the effect that disturbance has on the ...
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From the mountains to the prairies and beyond the pale : American yodeling on early recordings
... The Canadian Wilf Carter (Montana Slim) serves as an example. His yodeling differs markedly from the Jimmie Rodgers models, a fact apparent in his first hit, “My Swiss Moonlight Lullaby” ([1933] 1997), which ...
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Effects of the Mound-building Ant, Acanthomycops claviger
... compared to reconstructed prairies which tend to lack many ant species. Many important ecosystem functions such as water infiltration and soil modification are performed by ants. These services provide clean water ...
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