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Lake Water Quality - Cape Breton Highlands
What? Water samples are collected in Cape Breton Highlands National Park in various freshwater lakes and streams. When? Water samples are taken in select park lakes biannually... -
Stream Fish Occupancy - Banff
This is a backpack electrofishing based survey that enumerates all species caught a random selection of sites within a given watershed. Cascade, Panther and Spray watersheds... -
Forest Birds - Jasper
Birds are the most diverse of land vertebrates and are an important indicator of ecosystem health. Large protected areas, such as Jasper National Park, provide important habitat... -
Wetland Plant Community Structure - Terra Nova
Plant community structure is measured at 16 sites within the park on a four-year schedule. A series of five 2x2 metre quadrats are completed at each site with percent cover of... -
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... -
Deer Browse - Summer Herbaceous - Thousand Islands
Browse surveys occur yearly in July-August and are conducted by park staff. Each plot is composed of nine circular subplots (2-m radius) in a 3 x 3 grid, spaced at 15 m... -
Brook trout - Kejimkujik
Brook trout are top predators in aquatic ecosystems at Kejimkujik that integrate the effects of stressors throughout the aquatic trophic structure. They are sensitive to a... -
Colonial Waterbirds - Pukaskwa
Herring gull (Larus arentatus, HERG), great blue heron (Ardea Herodias GBHE), double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus, DCCO) and ring-billed gull (Larus delawarensis,... -
Snowshoe hare (pellet survey) - Wood Buffalo
Snowshoe hare are a keystone species of the boreal forest with a 9-10 year population cycle. Hare densities are positively correlated with other species and can have significant... -
Wildlife Mortality - Yoho
Vehicle-caused wildlife mortality and wildlife management destruction data for Yoho National Park between the years 2005 and 2017. Each species mortality is recorded by date,... -
Downed Wood Debris - Thousand Islands
Several measures that characterise downed woody debris are recorded along three, 45.14 m transects associated with long-term Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network (EMAN)... -
PAD vegetation change - Wood Buffalo National Park
The Peace Athabasca Delta (PAD) is a dynamic deltaic ecosystem that is driven by natural, periodic floods. Vegetation communities naturally vary with floods and droughts, but...