Conference Posters

Absracts, by Category

  1. Patterns of Global Change
    • Impacts of Climate Change on the Grasslands of the Canadian Prairies
    • Adapting Conservation Strategies For Future Climate Change In The Tallgrass Aspen Parkland
  2. Ecological Changes
    • Can Plains Rough Fescue Grasslands be Restored After Well Site and Pipeline Development?
    • Revisiting the Nesting Ecology of Western Grebes After 40 Years Of Changes At Delta Marsh, Manitoba
    • Deferring Grazing Has Immediate Nesting Success Benefit
    • Effects of Bison and Cattle Grazing on Grassland Songbirds
    • Field evidence of non-target and secondary poisoning by strychnine and chlorophacinone used to control Richardson's ground squirrels in southwest Saskatchewan
    • Diverse diet and high productivity show the adaptability of Swift Foxes in South-eastern Alberta to changing environments
    • PlantWatch Saskatchewan - Become a PlantWatch Volunteer and Help Track Climate Change
    • The South Okanagan - Canada's Endangered Shrub-steppe Ecosystem
    • The Effects of Hydrology on the Plant Community Structure of the Tallgrass Prairie
  3. Changes in the Physical Environment
    • Benefits of crop conversion programs for prairie species restoration
    • Determining Critical Habitat for the Northern Prairie Skink: Ground truthing a GIS Mapping Method
  4. Changing Socio-economic Pressures
    • Why do landowners practice biodiversity-friendly farming in the Central Parkland region of Alberta?
    • Sandstone Ranch Stewardship Credit Program Pilot Project
    • The Value of Sustainably Managed Grasslands
    • Social components of a changing conservation ethic and its consequences for conservation science in Canada's National Parks
  5. Dealing With Change
    • The Impacts of Drought on Species-at-Risk and Their Habitat in the Northern Mixed Grass Prairies
    • Species at Risk, Agriculture and Agri-Food Research Farms, and Creating Awareness
    • Do I need a SARA Permit? Overview of need and conditions for permitting
    • The changing value of citizen science: a Manitoba example
    • Do the germination temperature characteristics of the species at risk hairy prairie clover (Dalea villosa) differ from the more common prairie clovers (D. purpurea and candida) found in the Canadian Prairies?
    • Changing Ethics: Developing “Ecological Conscience” through Faith-Based Conservation
    • Good Management is the Key!
    • Manitoba Provincial Prairie Grass Campaign
  6. Changes in Prairie Health
    • Do grassland songbirds avoid natural-gas wells?
    • Invasive Species Council of Manitoba - 'Invasives Awareness'
    • Reducing crested wheatgrass seed production through prescribed burning and timed intensive grazing in Grasslands National Park of Canada
    • Preserving the cultural and ecological integrity of the mixed grass prairies in Grasslands National Park
    • Alberta Piping Plover Predator Exclosure and Population Monitoring Program
    • Floristic Quality Assessment of the Manitoba Tall Grass Prairie Preserve
  7. Changes in Species Conservation
    • Seed Bank Project to Conserve Manitoba's Native orchid Species
    • The Manitoba Breeding Bird Atlas
    • Influential Variables in Ferruginous Hawk Nest Site Selection
    • Native versus hay: effects of grassland type on survival of juvenile Sprague’s pipits
    • Small White Lady’s-slipper stewardship summary - information for landowners and managers
    • Is Livestock Production for the Birds?: Grassland Songbird Conservation through Grazing Management
    • Operation Burrowing Owl and Shrubs For Shrikes: Conserving Habitat through Land Stewardship
    • Skink Watch: Involving Landowners in Skink Monitoring on Private Land in Southwestern Manitoba
    • Managing Transmission Lines for Prairie Plants And Animals
    • An assessment of recovery efforts and outcomes for the Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) in Manitoba
    • Habitat Selection Of The Eastern Yellow-Bellied Racer (Coluber constrictor) and Bullsnake (Pituophis catenifer) In Southern Saskatchewan
    • Understanding Urban White-tailed Deer Movement within the Greater Winnipeg Area
    • Crossing the Medicine Line Network
    • Small, but mighty: Burrowing Owls as a flagship species of prairie conservation
    • Effects of grazing intensity and years grazed on songbird nesting success in northern mixed-grass prairies
    • Sprague's Pipit and Vesper Sparrow Breeding Success during Pipeline Construction and Clean-up Activity
    • The Effects of Twice-over Rotation Grazing on the Abundances of Grassland Birds
    • Does Buffalograss need Buffalo?
    • Ecology of the Rare Western Silvery Aster
    • Population Connectivity as a Critical Factor in Prairie-Chicken Sustainability
    • Large-scale abiotic influences on Burrowing Owl home-range habitat selection in the Canadian Prairies
    • Rare Plant Rescue: Identifying and Conserving Habitat for Rare Plants in Saskatchewan
    • The Saskatchewan Prairie Conservation Action Plan: Embracing a New Approach For 2009-2013
    • The genus Allium: Conservation status in the Canadian Prairie Provinces
    • The Prairie & Parkland Marsh Monitoring Program
    • Winter Destinations and Ecology of 'Canadian Burrowing Owls' in a Changing Landscape
    • Annual Dispersal and Implications for Conservation of Burrowing Owls in Canada
    • Suitable habitat distribution of the hognose snake in Manitoba using GIS technologies
    • Yellow Rail Habitat Selection in South-Eastern Manitoba
    • A new technology to determine Burrowing Owl critical foraging habitat
    • Pronghorn habitat selection and movement in the Northern Sagebrush Steppe
    • Manitoba Tall Grass Prairie Preserve: Providing Habitat for Protected and Provincially Rare Species
    • Recent Successes in Maximizing Piping Plover Productivity in Manitoba