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(The Cullen Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia, 2020-05-11)This document provides a review of literature that is concerned with describing and analyzing the nature and characteristics of money laundering (ML) with emphasis on Canada and British Columbia. This includes literature ...
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(Springer, 2010-05-25)Coastal barrens support rare plant species but may be threatened by forest encroachment. We determined whether trees spread into coastal barren habitat from forest patches and assessed plant species composition and soil ...
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(Canadian Science Publishing, 2011-02-11)Although many studies have focused on factors influencing treeline advance with climate change, less consideration has been given to potential changes in tree spatial pattern across the forest–tundra ecotone. We investigated ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2012-10-10)The arctic forest–tundra ecotone (FTE), which links species communities of the boreal forest with those of the arctic tundra, is expected to respond swiftly to climate change with a profound reduction of tundra as the ...
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(Springer Nature, 2017-10-17)Vegetation structure, defined by the height, cover, and types of plants, is an important component of habitat suitability for plant species or communities. The identification of potential habitat is a crucial knowledge gap ...
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(International Association for Vegetation Science, 2016-02-07)Questions: What is the distance of edge influence on the structure and understorey composition at 16–17-yr-old cut edges in black spruce boreal forest? How do these edges compare with more recent 2–5-yr-old cut edges in ...
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(Finnish Society of Forest Science, 2002-12-31)Fire reconstruction and forest inventory maps provided an opportunity to study changes in stand-level characteristics following fire using a data set comprised of all forest stands of fire origin in an area of over 10 000 ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2009-11)Assisted re-vegetation is particularly difficult in subarctic and arctic ecosystems where the impact of anthropogenic activities can be extensive and natural plant regeneration is slow. The construction of a military base ...
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(Wiley, 2011-08-25)Despite many studies on edge influence in forests, there is no common method for estimating distance of edge influence (DEI, = edge width). We introduce a new randomization method (RTEI) for estimating DEI that tests the ...
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(Springer, 2012-10-02)Tundra and taiga ecosystems comprise nearly 40 % of the terrestrial landscapes of Canada. These permafrost ecosystems have supported humans for more than 4500 years, and are currently home to ca. 115,000 people, the majority ...
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(Internation Association of Vegetation ScienceWiley, 2016-05)Questions: What factors control broad-scale variation in edge length and three dimensional boundary structure for a large region extending across two biomes? What is the difference in structure between natural and anthropogenic ...
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(NRC Research Press, 2018-06-25)Throughout the forest–tundra ecotone where trees and tall shrubs are becoming more abundant, knowledge of associations between shrubs and surrounding vegetation could inform predictions of their changing relationships. We ...
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(Finnish Society of Forest Science, 2015-06-11)Natural disturbances such as insect outbreaks create boundaries that influence vegetation patterns and ecological processes. To better understand the effects of natural edge creation on relatively intact forests and ...
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(John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015-05)Summary 1. Although anthropogenic edges are an important consequence of timber harvesting, edges due to natural disturbances or landscape heterogeneity are also common. Forest edges have been well studied in temperate ...
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(Wiley, 2018-12)Motivation:The Tundra Trait Team (TTT) database includes field‐based measurements of key traits related to plant form and function at multiple sites across the tundra biome. This dataset can be used to address theoretical ...
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(Springer, 2019-11-06)Landscape structure and crop management directly affect insect communities, which can influence agriculturally relevant ecosystem services and disservices. However, little is known about the effect of landscape structure ...
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(Elsevier Ltd., 2019-10)The expansion of monocultures and the overuse of agrochemicals have resulted in the loss of beneficial insects and disruption of ecosystem services such as pollination and biological control in agricultural landscapes. ...
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(Springer, 2019-06-18)Invasive grasses are an important threat in tropical savannas and grasslands and may be affected by natural and anthropogenic features of the environment. They may affect native species at a variety of scales, but a ...
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(Peaceful Schools International, 2018)
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(Elsevier, 2018)B-spline Gaussian collocation software has been widely used in the numerical solution of boundary value ordinary differential equations (BVODEs) and partial differential equations (PDEs) in one space dimension (1D) for ...