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"Recognizing that each additional disturbance in a region can represent a high marginal cost to the environment, there is an increasing awareness of the need to better assess and manage cumulative environmental effects. Yet, cumulative effects…

This article highlights contributions that can be made to the public health field by incorporating “ecosystem approaches to health” to tackle future environmental and health challenges at a regional level. This qualitative research reviews attitudes…

"Prescribed fire is used as a management tool to enhance ungulate habitats. In northeastern British Columbia, up to 7,800 ha are burned annually. Yet relatively few studies have quantified the role of fire on plant and animal response, and…

"As part of an industry/academic/Canadian Wildlife Service partnership to assess the effects of wind energy development on avian movement patterns and collision risk, we used visual observations and radars to track the avian migrants at the…

"Although nutrient deficiencies are not uncommon in forests across the north, little is known about these limitations in the Yukon, and even less about how these limitations have been and/or will be affected by climate. To address existing…

"A pilot study at the Aleza Lake Research Forest (ALRF) in east-central interior British Columbia (BC) examined the timing of peatland initiation using accelerator radiocarbon dating of peat deposits. At the ALRF, Sphagnum bogs occupy numerous…

"Heliskiing activity has increased in many areas of mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) range, particularly in British Columbia (B.C.). Current B.C. guidelines recommend that heliskiing activity remains ≥1500 m from mountain goat winter range…

"Partial cutting systems have often been proposed as a means of maintaining canopy lichen abundance and diversity in managed forests. However, most assessments of the effectiveness of specific harvest practices in maintain canopy lichens are…

"Models of a same system may differ greatly in scale and level of detail. The implications of this are examined, in general and more specifically in relation to forest growth models. The nature of modelling is discussed, distinguishing…

The shortcomings of public health research informed by reductionist and fragmented biomedical approaches and the emergence of wicked problems are fueling a renewed interest in ecological approaches in public health. Despite the central role of…

"The wetter subzones of the Interior Cedar-Hemlock (ICH) zone are naturally dominated by old forests in which trees regenerate and grow in small gaps in the forest canopy. Increased interest in ecosystem-based management has led to interest in…