ALBERTA BIOLOGISTS' BIWEEKLY

DECEMBER 15, 2023

SEMINARS, WEBINARS & CONFERENCES

JANUARY

Under Pressure:

Threats to Alberta’s Native Plant Communities

The Alberta Native Plant Council is hosting a new monthly lunchtime

webinar mini-series, Under Pressure: Threats to Alberta’s Native Plant

Communities. Alberta’s native plant communities face many threats, from

invasive species, to habitat loss to climate change and more. This

webinar mini-series will touch on some of these challenges and explore

some of the innovative solutions and research aiming to address them.

The first webinar (on Zoom) on January 16, 2024 at 12 PM MST

will see Megan Evans from Alberta Invasive Species Council present The alien

invasion: Protecting Alberta’s native plants from the ever-pressing

threat of invasive species! You can register on the ANPC website:

https://anpc.ab.ca/

SEMINARS, WEBINARS & CONFERENCES

FEBRUARY

Event Notice and Call for Abstracts:

Perspectives on measuring

and monitoring biological effects

in impact assessment

A symposium co-sponsored by The International Association for Impact Assessment – Western and Northern Canada (IAIA-WNC) and the British Columbia Association of Professional Biology (APB) will be held February 6, 2024 at the Simon Fraser University Wosk Conference Centre in downtown Vancouver. Remote participation will be available.

If you are interested in presenting at this event, please submit a brief abstract to [email protected] by January 3, 2024. Abstracts should be no more than 250 words; submissions should also include a talk title, author list, and all author affiliations. We are currently targeting 10-15 min speaking slots, plus time for questions. Abstract acceptance will be based on alignment with the event theme and subject to available time slots. Speakers will be required to attend in-person; registration will be open at later date.

For more detailed comments about the symposium theme, please read HERE.

10th Annual Native Prairie

Restoration/Reclamation Workshop

Registration is now open for the 10th Native Prairie Restoration/Reclamation Workshop on February 7 and 8, 2024, at Saskatoon. The schedule is online and you can register HERE.

Standard Track & Sign Evaluation

With David Moskowitz, on February 24 & 25, 2024 in the Edmonton Area (details disclosed at a later date). This 2-day field-based workshop is an unparalleled opportunity to learn from one of North America’s top wildlife trackers. It offers an opportunity for naturalists, field biologists, and outdoor enthusiasts of any skill-level to advance their abilities in wildlife track and sign identification and interpretation, and potentially earn an internationally recognised Track and Sign Certification from Tracker Certification North America. Find more information and register HERE.

GRASSLAND RESTORATION FORUM

NATURAL RESOURCES

TRAINING GROUP

For course details and the full calendar of upcoming courses the link is here:

https://nrtraininggroup.com/schedule/

SALMTEC

 COURSES AND TRAINING PROGRAMS

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Ongoing

SALMTEC Online Course: Wetland Policy Basics

Online

Ongoing

SALMTEC Snackable Learning Course: Understanding ACIMS Tools (Alberta Conservation Information Management System)

Online

Ongoing

SALMTEC Snackable Learning Course: Alberta Soil Information Viewer

Online

VISIT THE SALMTEC CONNECTOR 

THE CONNECTOR is a compilation of applied science and land management event listings, across a variety of sectors and disciplines, published monthly.

You can find the SALMTEC CONNECTOR HERE.

Giving back and paying it forward:

The Field Law Community Fund Program has announced the recipients of the 2023 Field Law Fund Community Program, which will distribute $75,000 in funding to local initiatives! Supporting our community has never been more important, and this year a record-breaking 151 amazing applications were submitted. Over 40,000 votes were cast, three judging panels met, and the winners have now been selected. More details here from Field Law: Info Link

We regularly receive notifications from Google Scholar Alerts and other sources which we select and share below in the BIWEEKLY. Here is the latest batch (the links are HOT):

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Spider and vascular plant assemblages in subarctic peat bogs are complementary ecological indicators of variation in local and landscape factors

Listening Beyond the Human: The Autonomous Recording Unit and the Ethics of Sound in Biodiversity Conservation

Ecological impacts of centralized large-scale photovoltaics and wind farms: progress and prospects

Sampling duration and season recommendations for passive acoustic monitoring of bats after white-nose syndrome

Wetlands as integral parts of surface water–groundwater interactions in the Athabasca Oil Sands Area: review and synthesis

A new Meso-Scale coarse-filter indicator for the Canadian boreal forest

An integrated strategy involving high‐throughput sequencing to characterize an unknown GM wheat event in Canada

Demographic history shapes North American gray wolf genomic diversity and informs species' conservation

Some of the tribes in the Midwest are really struggling, and I told myself, if we could launch a solar farm there, we could do it anywhere.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza: Unprecedented outbreaks in Canadian wildlife and domestic poultry

Functional Response to Cumulative Effects as an Effective Tool for Wildlife Management

Fire refugia are robust across Western US forested ecoregions, 1986-2021

The Role of Climate Change in the Proliferation of Freshwater Harmful Algal Blooms in Inland Waterbodies of the United States

Differences in the reproductive output and larval survival of Rocky Mountain wood ticks (Dermacentor andersoni) and American dog ticks (Dermacentor variabilis) from …

Increasing fish biodiversity in high elevation Albertan lakes in response to global environmental change over the past 50 years

Ground beetle conservation biocontrol: Potential for pest control ecosystem services using predation activity and trait-based analysis

American Avocets at Cooking Lake, Alberta, 2009-2023, with a special reference to large aggregation size and low reproduction rate

Banner Image:

Pileated Woodpecker, Strathcona County,

from iNaturalist and supplied by

Emily Kabotoff, B.Sc., P.Biol.

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