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Permafrost - Tundra -Vuntut
Permafrost and snow are critical to the ecology of many northern ecosystems. They influence hydrology and vegetation and can dramatically affect the quality of wildlife habitat.... -
Kootenay_NP_Alpine_Pika Haypile Surveys
Kootenay National Park assesses the populations of American Pika using surveys of active pika hay piles at various sites throughout the park. -
Permafrost - Ivvavik
This dataset measures the temperature of the soil at 4 depths: 1 meter, 5 meters, 10 meters and 14 meters. This permafrost data is collected using Hobodata loggers that collect... -
Eelgrass extent - Kejimkujik
Eelgrass has been identified by the Quebec-Atlantic bioregion as a critical coastal habitat. Seagrasses are "coastal canaries"-- sensitive indicators of nearshore ecosystem... -
Invasive Vascular Plants - Pacific Rim
This program aims to capture the extent of eradicated English Ivy (Hedera helix) and two species of invasive beachgrasses (European beachgrass/European marram grass (Ammophila... -
Area Burned Condition Class - Glacier
In an effort to assess the current state of wildland fire as an ecological process, the Area Burned Condition Class (ABCC) measure is designed to reflect modern-day deviations... -
Avian species relative abundance - Tundra - Mount-Revelstoke NP
Mount Revelstoke National Park provides important habitat for a wide range of bird species. As the most diverse land vertebrates, birds are an important indicator of ecosystem... -
Stream temperature - Torngat Mountains
Water temperature is a critical variable in stream ecology, and in particular has direct implications for fish populations. Automated data loggers are being used to record year-... -
Annual Decay Rates - Prince Edward Island
Annual decay rates in soil humus are monitored in 12 permanent forest plots within PEI National Park using year-to-year dry weight losses of standardized wood pieces (tongue... -
Multi-Species Mammal Occupancy - Waterton Lakes - Forest
Motion-detection cameras are a cost-effective and non-invasive tool used in Waterton Lakes National Park for sampling mammal populations and estimating species occurrence.... -
Forest trees - Kejimkujik
The long-term monitoring of trees on a permanently marked forest plot gives important information on the structure and composition of a forest, the condition, growth rates and... -
Mammal Diversity and Abundance - Prince Albert
Occupancy data for wildlife species are collected from seven snow track transects, where the presence or absence of tracks for each species is recorded every 100m. Tracks are... -
Estuarine Index of Biotic Integrity - Kouchibouguac
The Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) is a valuable multi-metric approach to assess the integrity of fish assemblages in aquatic ecosystems. The purpose of the estuarine IBI... -
Kokanee Spawning Counts - Kluane
Kluane National Park and Reserve has the only naturally occurring population of kokanee salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in the Canadian national park system. In 2002, the population... -
Kelp Density - Pacific Rim
This program measures kelp density from annual dive transects during August and September at a number of sites in the Broken Group Islands of Pacific Rim National Park Reserve.... -
Air Quality - Mount Revelstoke
This project measures air quality at an Environment Canada Global Atmospheric Passive Sampling (GAPS) station located at Miller Lake in Mount Revelstoke National Park.... -
Terrestrial Birds - Waterton Lakes - Forest
Birds are the most diverse of land vertebrates and are an important indicator of ecosystem health. Large protected areas, such as Waterton Lakes National Park, provide important... -
Forest Non-Native Vegetation - Banff
Banff National Park monitors invasive alien plants with the use of permanent, random stratified, transects established in each of the three management zones, in close proximity... -
Snowbed meltout phenology - Gros Morne
Late snowbeds afford critical habitat for many species of Arctic and alpine plants in Gros Morne National Park. Temperature loggers are being anchored at ground level within the... -
Benthic Invertabrates - Ivvavik
This dataset contains monitoring data for benthic invertebrate communities along the Firth River Corridor. The raw data in this dataset is used to calculate benthic invertebrate...