Continuing Environmental Change - An Example from Nova Scotia
Information from personal experience, from community elders and published literature served as a basis for evaluating environmental changes in the District of North Queens and adjacent areas of Southwestern Nova Scotia over the past century. Major events included disappearance of the Caribou (Rangif...
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ftjcfn:oai:canadianfieldnaturalist.ca:article/880 2023-05-15T13:13:15+02:00 Continuing Environmental Change - An Example from Nova Scotia Telfer, Edmund S. 2004-01-01 application/pdf https://www.canadianfieldnaturalist.ca/index.php/cfn/article/view/880 https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v118i1.880 eng eng The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club https://www.canadianfieldnaturalist.ca/index.php/cfn/article/view/880/881 https://www.canadianfieldnaturalist.ca/index.php/cfn/article/view/880 doi:10.22621/cfn.v118i1.880 The Canadian Field-Naturalist; Vol. 118 No. 1 (2004); 39-44 0008-3550 Nova Scotia plant and animal diseases change in biota climate change adaptive management info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2004 ftjcfn https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v118i1.880 2021-09-02T18:54:08Z Information from personal experience, from community elders and published literature served as a basis for evaluating environmental changes in the District of North Queens and adjacent areas of Southwestern Nova Scotia over the past century. Major events included disappearance of the Caribou (Rangifer tarandus), the arrival of White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus), the severe reduction of Canada Yew (Taxus canadensis), disappearance of Lynx (Lynx canadensis), a major dieoff of Striped Skunks (Mephitis mephitis), decline of American Beech (Fagus grandifolia), the loss of mature birch (Betula spp.), the severe reduction of Moose (Alces alces), the arrival of the American Dog Tick (Dermacentor variabilis) and Coyotes (Canis latrans), and the restoration of Beaver (Castor canadensis). The proximate cause of many of those changes were plant and animal disease, while the ultimate causes were naturally occurring animal range expansion and human impacts. The warming of the climate over the past 150 years probably played a role. The nature and timing of the events could not have been predicted. Article in Journal/Newspaper Alces alces caribou Rangifer tarandus Lynx The Canadian Field-Naturalist (E-Journal) Canada The Canadian Field-Naturalist 118 1 39 |
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Information from personal experience, from community elders and published literature served as a basis for evaluating environmental changes in the District of North Queens and adjacent areas of Southwestern Nova Scotia over the past century. Major events included disappearance of the Caribou (Rangifer tarandus), the arrival of White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus), the severe reduction of Canada Yew (Taxus canadensis), disappearance of Lynx (Lynx canadensis), a major dieoff of Striped Skunks (Mephitis mephitis), decline of American Beech (Fagus grandifolia), the loss of mature birch (Betula spp.), the severe reduction of Moose (Alces alces), the arrival of the American Dog Tick (Dermacentor variabilis) and Coyotes (Canis latrans), and the restoration of Beaver (Castor canadensis). The proximate cause of many of those changes were plant and animal disease, while the ultimate causes were naturally occurring animal range expansion and human impacts. The warming of the climate over the past 150 years probably played a role. The nature and timing of the events could not have been predicted. |
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Continuing Environmental Change - An Example from Nova Scotia |
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