Datasets - Oil Sands Monitoring

Investigating detection success: lessons from trials using decoy rare plants

Investigation of imperfect detection of rare plants using volunteer observers and placed decoy plants. Detection was very low for cryptic species, particularly in large size...

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Classification Threshold and Training Data Affect the Quality and Utility of ...

Automated recognition is increasingly used to extract information about species vocalizations from audio recordings. During processing, recognizers calculate the probability of...

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Effects of energy sector development and recovery on the threatened Canada Wa...

This report provides an estimate of what the total impacts of energy development are on the Canada Warbler in the Oilsands Planning Region. We show that habitat loss is...

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Applying and testing a novel method to estimate animal density from motion-tr...

This paper describes a novel approach to estimate animal density using images from camera traps without the need for individual identification, using the time spent in front of...

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Demographic declines over time and variable responses of breeding bird popula...

Habitat loss and disturbance from industrial resource development may be contributing to declines in boreal bird populations. In this study, modelling methods were used to...

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Effects of Natural Land Cover, Anthropogenic Disturbance, Space, and Climate ...

The study examined oribatid mite communities’ response to natural land cover, anthropogenic disturbance and spatial–climatic factors assessed over broad spatial scales and the...

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A before after dose response (BADR) terrestrial biological monitoring framewo...

This Technical Report provides an overview of the hierarchical Before-After Dose-Response (BADR) study design that was developed to provide an integrated, efficient framework...

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Processing Aquatic Invertebrates

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BADR Remote Cameras

Wildlife data processed from remote camera images associated with the Terrestrial Biological Monitoring program using a before-after-dose-response (BADR) framework.

BADR ARU

Wildlife data processed from autonomous recording unit (ARU) audio files associated with the Terrestrial Biological Monitoring program using a before-after-dose-response (BADR)...

ABMI Remote Cameras (Ecosystem Health Program)

Identification of mammals in remote camera images collected from monitoring terrestrial locations in the oil sands region by ABMI for the OSM program.

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ABMI ARU Birds (Ecosystem Health Program)

Identification of breeding birds in autonomous recording unit recordings collected from monitoring terrestrial locations in the oil sands region by ABMI for the OSM program.

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Methane emissions from an oil sands tailings pond; a quantitative comparison ...

Abstract Tailings ponds in the Alberta oil sands region are significant sources of fugitive emissions of methane to the atmosphere, but detailed knowledge on spatial and...

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Standard Operating Procedure for Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S) and Total Reduced Su...

To obtain timely data for the purpose of air quality assessment, air quality trend reporting and to meet the requirements for inclusion of the data in provincial and national...