Cause-Effect Monitoring, Oil Sands Region
Environment and Climate Change Canada’s cause-effect monitoring is focused on understanding how boreal songbirds, including several Species at Risk, are affected by human activity in the oil sands area, particularly the impact of the physical disturbance of forested habitats from exploration, development and construction of oil sands. Determining the abundance of songbird species associated with various habitat type(s) and understanding how the type and number of birds varies with type and amount of habitat, are important components of assessing the effect of habitat disturbance.
Regional-scale monitoring focuses on understanding how and why boreal songbirds, including several Species at Risk, are affected by human activity across the Peace, Athabasca and Cold Lake oil sands area. Local-scale projects focus on addressing gaps in our understanding of complex response patterns at regional scales by targeting specific habitats or development features of interest.
These data contribute to:
a. improving the design of monitoring programs;
b. explaining observed trends in populations (why bird populations are increasing or decreasing);
c. predicting population sizes within the oil sands area; and
d. assessing the individual, additive and cumulative effects of oil sands and other resource development on boreal birds.
Data are used by ECCC and our partners to develop new models and increase the robustness of existing models of bird responses to habitat and disturbance. Because models can be used to predict outcomes of future land management scenarios, these models can assist decision-making by helping evaluate land-use choices before impacts are directly observed.
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Metadata Record Information
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- 2025-04-01T19:41:18.088Z
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eng; CAN
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http://ec.gc.ca
Data identification
- Title
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Cause-Effect Monitoring, Oil Sands Region
- Date (Publication)
- 2014-12-16
- Date (Creation)
- 2012-07-03
- Status
- On going
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eng; CAN
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- Environment
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- As needed
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780-495-2615
Keywords
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Canada Warbler, species at risk, landbirds, birds, mixedwood, forest, vegetation, point count, avian, spot mapping
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Observation/Measurement
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Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
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Oil sands
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Migratory birds
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ECCC Information Category EN
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Nature and Biodiversity - Habitat
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Business Functions
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Protect Species Well-Being
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Expand Scientific Knowledge/Develop New Methodologies for Managing, Protecting and Restoring Species
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Geography
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Prairie - Alberta (AB)
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external.theme.EC_Branch
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Environmental Stewardship Branch
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external.theme.EC_Directorate
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Canadian Wildlife Service
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external.theme.EC_Program_PAA
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1.3.2. Ecosystem Assessment and Approaches
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1.1.3. Migratory Birds
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Unclassified
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Open Government Licence - Canada ( http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
- Access Constraints
- License
- Use Constraints
- License
- Begin Date
- 2011-05-28
- End Date
- 2011-06-20
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Ref. system Reference Systems
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Distribution
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- CSV ( MS Excel Version 14.0.7173.5000)
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change.html
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