2016
DOI: 10.1071/wf15170
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Using Landsat imagery to backcast fire and post-fire residuals in the Boreal Shield of Saskatchewan: implications for woodland caribou management

Abstract: Boreal woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) are designated as threatened under Canada’s Species at Risk Act. A Recovery Strategy for the boreal population of caribou identified critical habitat for all but 1 of 51 caribou ranges – Saskatchewan’s Boreal Shield (SK1). The strategy identified 65% undisturbed habitat as the threshold below which a local population was not likely to be self-sustaining. Disturbance was measured as the combined effects of fires <40 years and anthropogenic land use. The fir… Show more

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“…Confirmation of this hypothesis requires field assessments of food availability in burned areas of different ages, compared with other habitats within caribou range. Alternatively, our analysis could be overlooking the caribou habitat within unburned remnant patches within the perimeter of wildfires, because of limitations in the spatial data (Kansas et al 2016).…”
Section: Figmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Confirmation of this hypothesis requires field assessments of food availability in burned areas of different ages, compared with other habitats within caribou range. Alternatively, our analysis could be overlooking the caribou habitat within unburned remnant patches within the perimeter of wildfires, because of limitations in the spatial data (Kansas et al 2016).…”
Section: Figmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Here, we study fire and forest dynamics in Saskatchewan's Boreal Shield, where >40% of the forested area has burned in the past 30 years (Kansas, Vargas, Skatter, Balicki, & McCullum, ), to better understand interactions between vegetation and fire. This region supports some of the highest rates of lightning‐caused fire activity in Canada (Parisien et al, ), with large increases expected by end of the 21st century (Balshi et al, ; Flannigan, Logan, Amiro, Skinner, & Stocks, ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…, Kansas et al. ), and to assess the role of fuel treatments and prescribed burning in reducing (Parks et al. , Prichard and Kennedy , Lydersen et al.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%