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Mixed evidence for reduced local adaptation in wild salmon resulting from interbreeding with escaped farmed salmon: complexities in hybrid fitness
(2008-08)Interbreeding between artificially-selected and wild organisms can have negative fitness consequences for the latter. In the Northwest Atlantic, farmed Atlantic salmon recurrently escape into the wild and enter rivers where ... -
Mixed evidence for reduced local adaptation in wild salmon resulting from interbreeding with escaped farmed salmon: complexities in hybrid fitness
(2008-08)Interbreeding between artificially-selected and wild organisms can have negative fitness consequences for the latter. In the Northwest Atlantic, farmed Atlantic salmon recurrently escape into the wild and enter rivers ... -
Mixed Transition Metal Titanate and Vanadate Negative Electrode Materials for Na-Ion Batteries (Preprint)
(IOP Publishing, 2014-11-07)Sodium-ion batteries have the potential to be a low cost, sustainable replacement for lithium-ion batteries in large scale energy storage. The lack of practical negative electrode materials limit the development of Na-ion ... -
Mixed-stock analysis of Atlantic cod near the Gulf of St. Lawrence based on microsatellite DNA
(2000-08)The collapse of various stock complexes of cod (Gadus morhua) in the northwest Atlantic has prompted a clarification of relationships among stock components. Here we examine the genetic composition of >2300 cod collected ... -
Mobilizing Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit in narwhal management through community empowerment: A case study in Naujaat, Nunavut [graduate project].
(2015-11-23)This research examines the relationship between government wildlife management regulations and the use of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) through a case study focusing on narwhal harvesting in the community of Naujaat, Nunavut. ... -
Mobilizing values: Using perceptions of barachois ponds in Cape Breton to advance informed management
(2018-12)Barachois ponds or tidal lagoons are highly dynamic, incredibly productive, yet poorly understood wetlands across Nova Scotia, Canada. Defined by the partial or complete enclosure of a sand or gravel barrier forming a pond, ... -
Mode of Extrusion of Frenchman's Barn, Dunn Point Volcanic Formation, Arisaig, Antigonish County, Nova Scotia.
(1979-03-15)Frenchman's Barn, near Arisaig, Nova Scotia, is an enigma. It contains some of the textural characteristics of ash flows and lava flows and some which are not common to either. Part of the problem is that many of the ... -
A model of the circulation on the outer Scotian shelf with open boundary conditions inferred by data assimilation
(American Geophys. Union, 1998-12/15)The circulation on Western Bank is described using data collected in spring 1991 and 1992 as part of an interdisciplinary study of the early life history of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua). The mean circulation over the crest ... -
Modeling events of sea-surface variability using spectral nudging in an eddy permitting model of the northeast Pacific Ocean
(2006-06)[ 1] Eddies are an important part of the current system that hugs the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. The ability of "spectral nudging'' to improve the eddy statistics determined from model simulations of this current ... -
Modeling habitat connectivity and movement of Blanding’s turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) across a fragmented landscape in Rouge National Urban Park, Ontario, Canada
(2019-04)Rouge National Urban Park is a highly fragmented park in Canada’s most populous city, Toronto, Ontario. Habitat fragmentation has been found to hinder conservation efforts due to the associated increased risks of species ... -
MODELING OF A PALEOCENE SUBMARINE CANYON, JEANNE D'ARC BASIN, OFFSHORE NEWFOUNDLAND, TO DETERMINE CANYON FILL LITHOLOGY
(1997-04-15)The Hibernia Paleocene Canyon, located in the Jeanne d'Arc Basin, offshore Newfoundland, was modeled using the BasinMod lD and BasinMod 2D software packages to determine the lithology of the canyon fill. Petroleum industry ... -
Modeling the effects of ultraviolet radiation on embryos of Calanus finmarchicus and Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in a mixing environment
(2000-12)It is well established that ultraviolet radiation (UVR, 280-400 nm) harms aquatic organisms. Reductions in productivity have been reported for phytoplankton, ichthyoplankton, and zooplankton in incubations exposed to UVR. ... -
Modeling the evolution of infrared luminous galaxies: the influence of the Luminosity-Temperature distribution
(2005-03)The evolution of the luminous infrared galaxy population is explored using a pure luminosity evolution model which incorporates the locally observed luminosity-temperature distribution for IRAS galaxies. Pure luminosity ... -
Modelling fishing effort displacement in the Southern Gulf of St Lawrence snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) fishery: quantifying management measures for North Atlantic Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis) entanglement prevention
(2018-12)Anthropogenic mortality is the leading factor inhibiting the recovery of the endangered North Atlantic right whale (NARW), in which 85% of human-induced deaths are caused by entanglement in commercial fishing gear. In 2017, ... -
Modelling Non-linear Relationships in ERP Data Using Mixed-effects Regression with R Examples
(2013-05-29)The relationship between two variables is very often assumed to be a straight line. However, there are many problems for which this assumption does not hold. In this paper, we show that the assumption of linearity, an ... -
Modelling phase shifts in a rocky subtidal ecosystem
(Inter-Research, Nordbuente 23 Oldendorf/Luhe 21385 Germany, [mailto:ir@int-res.com], [URL:http://www.int-res.com/], 2008-03)The rocky subtidal ecosystem of the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia is characterised by 2 community states, kelp beds and urchin barrens that alternate on a decadal time scale. While the shift from barrens to a kelp bed ... -
Modelling phase shifts in a rocky subtidal ecosystem
(2009)The rocky subtidal ecosystem of the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia is characterised by 2 community states, kelp beds and urchin barrens that alternate on a decadal time scale. While the shift from barrens to a kelp bed ... -
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Modelling the Critical Habitat of the Bicknell’s Thrush in the Cape Breton Highlands
(2020-04)Bicknell’s Thrush (Catharus bicknelli) is listed as a threatened species under SARA, and identification of critical habitat is a key priority in the species’ recovery. LiDAR data was used to create a habitat suitability ...