Conservation of biodiversity in Northern Canada through ecological processes and cultural landscapes

• Main Author: Leverkus, Sonja Eva Ryka
• Other Authors: Fuhlendorf, Samuel Dean, Geertsema, Marten, Engle, David M., Elmore, R. Dwayne, Baum, Kristen
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: British Columbia; Canada; Bison bison athabascae; First Nations; Wood Bison; Bison bison bison
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11244/45363

Disturbance processes are critical to ecosystem function and resilience. Across a landscape, fire varies in space and time, which results in a shifting mosaic of patches with different fire return intervals and vertical structure, promoting habitat heterogeneity and biodiversity. The spatiotemporal...