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Determining the Effectiveness of Forestry Beneficial Management Practices for Olive-sided Flycatcher, a Species at Risk Bird in Nova Scotia
(2024-04)The Olive-sided Flycatcher (OSFL) is a bird species at risk that breeds across Canada, including in Nova Scotia's forests. It is considered threatened in the province, experiencing recent population declines. While OSFL ... -
Detrital production in Nova Scotian kelp beds: patterns and processes
(2011)Connectivity via the transport of detrital material from areas of high to low productivity may be an important determinant of secondary productivity and biodiversity in receiving communities. On the Atlantic coast of ... -
Deuteration and Tautomeric Reactivity of the 1-Methyl Functionality of Free-base Dipyrrins
(Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2017)Regioselective reactivity of the 1-methyl group of free-base dipyrrins is explored, including discussion of tautomerism to provide exocyclic alkenyl reactivity. Deuterium is installed such as to generate dipyrrins substituted ... -
Developing an Equitable Framework to Support Indigenous Co-Governance of St. Anns Bank Marine Protected Area
(2023-04-30)Marine protected areas (MPAs) comprise a large proportion of the conservation measures used to achieve the international conservation commitments of the federal government (10% of Canadian waters by 2010, and now 25% by ... -
Developing an Ocean Literacy Framework: Lesson from an Analysis of Ocean Week Canada
(2021-12)The UN Decade of Ocean Science and the Canadian Ocean Literacy Strategy (the ‘Strategy’) have led to increased recognition of the need for ocean education at all levels to increase ocean literacy. According to the Strategy, ... -
Developing and implementing a research framework to determine the overall use and influence of a long-term marine environmental monitoring program: A Case Study on Gulfwatch in Nova Scotia [graduate project].
(2015-03-03)Chemical contamination of marine environments can pose numerous risks to both ecosystem and human health. Monitoring trends of chemical contaminants over time and space can provide managers and decision-makers the information ... -
Development of a wearable global positioning system for place and health research
(2008-11)Background: An increasing number of studies suggest that characteristics of context, or the attributes of the places within which we live, work and socialize, are associated with variations in health-related behaviours and ... -
The development of ballast water management in Canada: A critical analysis of the journey [graduate project].
(2015-03-03)Non-indigenous species (NIS) and aquatic invasive species (AIS) create significant risks when introduced to foreign ecosystems. One of the many vectors facilitating the transport of NIS is ballast water, and as commercial ... -
Development of the Active Layer, Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula and Richard’s Island area, Western Arctic, Canada (Postprint)
(1982-03-15)During the 1979 field season, a large number of measurements of active layer thickness were obtained at a number of locations in the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula/Richard’s Island area, N.W.T., by probing the ground surface with ... -
Development of the blood and muscle oxygen stores in gray seals (Halichoerus grypus): Implications for juvenile diving capacity and the necessity of a terrestrial postweaning fast
(2005-07)To successfully transition from nursing to foraging, phocid seal pups must develop adequate diving physiology within the limited time between birth and their first independent foraging trip to sea. We studied the postpartum ... -
Devonian extension in Northwestern Newfoundland: Ar-40/Ar-39 and U-Pb data from the Ming's Bight area, Baie Verte Peninsula
(2001-03)The Ming's Bight Group of northwestern Newfoundland, an outlier of Humber Zone continental margin rocks, is entirely surrounded by ophiolitic rocks of the Dunnage Zone. Structures in the Ming's Bight Group and adjacent ... -
DFT treatment of strong correlation in 3d transition-metal diatomics
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Diagnosis of the level of student support for campus-wide removal of bottled water
(2011-04)The goal of this research project was to determine the level of student support at Dalhousie for the removal of water bottles from vending machines and food service locations on campus. The results showed that more than ... -
Diamagnetic susceptibility of a dense electron gas
(1988-02/15)The authors calculate the diamagnetic susceptibility of a uniform interacting electron gas in the random-phase approximation. From this the exact high-density expansion of the diamagnetic susceptibility is obtained -
Diazotrophic bacteria respond to Saharan dust additions
(2012)Three bioassay experiments were performed to study the effects of nutrient and Saharan dust additions on natural diazotrophic communities in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean. Samples for nucleic acid analysis were collected ...