Ecology of wood bison and their response to natural and anthropogenic disturbances in the oil sands region of northeast Alberta

艾伯塔省东北部油砂地区木野牛的生态及其对自然和人为干扰的响应

基本信息

批准号：
505291-2016
负责人：
Nielsen, Scott
金额：
$ 6.48万
依托单位：
University of Alberta
依托单位国家：
加拿大
项目类别：
Collaborative Research and Development Grants
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
加拿大
起止时间：
2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=619036
关键词：
Ecology wood bison their response

项目摘要

Alberta's oil sands reserves are an important resource for Canada and of strategic international value. However, numerous environmental concerns have been raised about Alberta's oil sands, including pollution, habitat loss and fragmentation, and threats to biodiversity and wildlife. This includes nationally threatened species such as wood bison. Although existing oil sands developments do not overlap with extant wild populations of wood bison, proposed oil sands developments south of Wood Buffalo National Park overlap with parts of a small (~200 animals) herd of wood bison near Ronald Lake. More detailed information of how the herd responds to oil sands exploration and development would inform mitigation and reclamation plans thus minimizing negative effects to the herd.The Ronald Lake herd overlaps with the oil sands leases of our 2 industrial partners, Teck Resources Limited and Shell Canada Limited. Together with our industrial partners and other members of the Ronald Lake Bison Herd Technical Team (provincial and federal governments and Aboriginal or Indigenous communities), we have identified several key knowledge gaps for the herd that deal with its long-term management and sustainability, as well as specific mitigation and reclamation practices. We will address these needs through a 4-year NSERC-CRD study of the Ronald Lake wood bison herd that focus on better understanding the herd's habitat and space use patterns, behavioural responses to human-caused and natural disturbances, and population dynamics in relation to habitat supply and predation. Scientific findings from this work will be used to help guide management of the herd and more broadly to fill knowledge gaps identified by the Ronald Lake Bison Herd Technical Team.

艾伯塔省的油砂储量是加拿大和战略国际价值的重要资源。但是，人们对艾伯塔省的油砂提出了许多环境问题，包括污染，栖息地丧失和破碎，以及对生物多样性和野生动植物的威胁。这包括受国家威胁的物种，例如木野牛。尽管现有的油砂开发项目与现存的野野野野野野野外没有重叠，但拟议的油砂开发项目与伍德布法罗国家公园以南的开发项目与罗纳德湖附近的一小部分（约200只动物）的木野牛重叠。关于牛群如何对油砂勘探和开发做出反应的更详细信息将为缓解和开垦计划提供信息，从而最大程度地减少了对牛群的负面影响。罗纳德湖牛群与我们2个工业合作伙伴的油砂租赁重叠，Teck Resources Limited和Shell Canada Limited。我们与我们的工业伙伴以及罗纳德湖野牛技术团队（省和联邦政府以及原住民或土著社区）的其他成员一起，为牛群确定了几个关键知识差距，这些差距与其长期管理和可持续性以及特定的缓解和填海习惯有关。我们将通过对罗纳德湖木制野牛牛群进行的4年NSERC-CRD研究来解决这些需求，该研究专注于更好地理解牛群的栖息地和空间使用模式，对人类造成的人类造成的行为反应和与栖息地供应和掠夺有关的人口动态。这项工作的科学发现将用于帮助指导牛群的管理，并更广泛地填补罗纳德湖野牛群技术团队确定的知识空白。