Investigating landscape change and ecological restoration: an integrated approach using historical ecology and GIS in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta

Investigating landscape change and ecological restoration: an integrated approach using historical ecology and GIS in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta

This thesis examines landscape change from 1889 to the present within the foothills-parkland ecoregion of Waterton Lakes National Park (WLNP) in southwestern Alberta, Canada. Land cover dynamics are explored qualitatively and quantitatively using Geographical Information Systems and a combination of...

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Main Author: Levesque, Lisa Marie
Other Authors: Higgs, Eric
Format: Others
Language:English
en
Published: 2005
Subjects:
landscape change
repeat photography
GIS
historical ecology
Waterton Lakes National Park
Alberta
aspen
Populus tremuloides (Michx.)
vegetation dynamics
Rocky Mountains
bison
fire ecology
land survey records
foothills-parkland
fescue prairie
Environmental sciences
Geography
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1828/37

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