Browsing by Subject "climate change"
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Addressing key conservation priorities in a data poor species
(2012-08-23)Conserving biodiversity is suggested to be one of the most important challenges being faced by the global community. The field of conservation biology has been developed to examine the threats that drive species to low ... -
Assessing the current and future risk of ballast-sourced species invasions in Canada’s eastern Arctic under a climate change scenario. [graduate project].
(2016)The use of ballast water is an important and globally accepted method for maintaining vessel stability, as well as a major pathway for nonindigenous species (NIS) introduction. Canada has responded to this threat in the ... -
Assessing the Potential Impact of Climate Change on Surface Hydrology of Prince Edward Island
This study used the HBV hydrological model to assess the potential impact of climate change on five watersheds on Prince Edward Island, Canada. The model was successfully constructed and calibrated using a 2000 run Monte ... -
BUILDING AN ARC IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: APPLYING PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESILIENCE TO IMPROVE SINGLE-SPECIES CONSERVATION PLANNING IN AN ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Habitat loss and fragmentation have precipitated a mass extinction. Therefore, maintaining a functionally connected habitat network is an effective response to biodiversity loss. However, climate change poses challenges ... -
CLIMATE-CHANGE VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT FOR SELECTED SPECIES IN THREE NATIONAL PARKS IN EASTERN CANADA
(2015-04-06)Canadian protected areas have been established with a premise of static distributions of different ecosystems, an assumption invalidated by climate change. In the Maritimes, there are few local case studies on how to ... -
A Comparison of Eight Country Plans for the Invasive Indo-Pacific Lionfish in the Wider Caribbean [graduate project].
(2016)The coastal Caribbean region is generally characterized by the following ecosystems: coral reefs, mangroves and seagrasses, also including other environments, such as sandy beaches and rocky shores. These tropical ecosystems ... -
Cosmogenic Nuclide Quantification of Paleo-fluvial Sedimentation Rates in Response to Climate Change
(2013-04-30)The magnitude of global sediment flux from streams to the oceans over the last 5 Ma is poorly quantified, yet important for predicting future fluxes and deciphering the relative control of tectonic uplift, climate change, ... -
Current and future wildfire risk in the peri-urban Acadian Forest Region
(2013-08-21)The majority of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, and the peri-urban has grown simultaneously, creating new Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) where development comes into contact – and intermingles with – ... -
Examining community adaptation readiness to climate change in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Northwest Territories [graduate project].
(2015-11-23)The current rate of anthropogenic driven climate change is unprecedented and threatening the social, cultural and ecological characteristics of many Arctic communities. The Government of the Northwest Territories, Inuit ... -
GLOBAL SCALE DRIVERS AND FUTURE PROJECTIONS OF THE TERRESTRIAL WATER BUDGET
Projected changes in the hydrological cycle have raised significant concern over future water availability and the sustainability of the world’s terrestrial ecosystems. In Chapter 2, I used a recently compiled dataset of ... -
Guardians of the Seascape: Considering the Next Era of Lighthouses in Rural Nova Scotia Communities
This thesis studies ways in which architecture and the coastal infrastructure of lighthouses can help preserve a relationship with the seascape, encouraging rural Nova Scotian communities to engage and respond to their ... -
Hydrologic impacts of thawing permafrost—A review
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Improving resources to assess climate change coastal vulnerability: a pre-assessment criteria of the socio-economic values of working waterfront infrastructures in Nova Scotia
(2012-10-26)The scientific community has stated that coastal zones will be among the zones that would suffer major negative consequences in terms of climate change effects. Nova Scotia, as a coastal province, is not absolved of such ... -
The Influence of Temperature Variability on Metrics of Life History in Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis)
Increased mean annual temperatures and temperature variability associated with climate change is expected to have detrimental effects on the distribution, growth, survival, and phenology of many commercially and recreationally ... -
Late Blooming of Plants from Northern Nova Scotia: Responses to a Mild Fall and Winter
(Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 2011)Over 1400 flowering records of 135 species were recorded from over 125 visits to more than 20 sites in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia from November 2005 to January 2006, when the growing season is normally over. The species ... -
MARINE CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT DEVELOPMENT, USES, AND LIMITATIONS AS A TOOL FOR CLIMATE ADAPTATION
(2014-12-17)Resource managers need tools to prepare for biological changes resulting from climate change. Here, I present a novel marine Vulnerability to Projected Warming Assessment (VPWA) model as a climate adaptation tool to rank ... -
Shallow groundwater thermal sensitivity to climate change and land cover disturbances: derivation of analytical expressions and implications for stream temperature modeling
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SOCIOECONOMIC RISK FROM OCEAN ACIDIFICATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON ATLANTIC CANADIAN FISHERIES
Ocean acidification (OA) is an emerging consequence of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. The full extent of the biological impacts are currently not well understood. However, it is expected that invertebrate species ...
