The earth’s natural capital provides land, resources and a flow of ecosystem services. Watersheds that cover our landscapes consist of forests, wetlands, grasslands and rivers that act like giant utilities providing ...

The data associated with this report can be found at: http://130.179.67.140/dataset/atlascda-drainage The Atlas of Canada 1,000,000 National Frameworks Data, Road Network is based on 1:250,000 scale National Topographic ...

The Souris River Basin is a 24,600-square-mile basin located in southeast Saskatchewan, north-central North Dakota, and southwest Manitoba. The Souris River Bilateral Water Quality Monitoring Group, formed in 1989 by the ...

In 2003, concerns about the phosphorus content of automatic dishwashing detergents prompted the passage of legislation requiring a comprehensive study of all of the sources and amounts of phosphorus entering publicly-owned ...

The object of this study has been to develop a remote sensing method to estimate the relative proportion of cyanobacteria in plankton populations in Lake Winnipeg. In previous studies, I tested various remote sensing ...

Aquatic invasive species (AIS) have been entering Canadian waters for centuries but never as rapidly as today. Every decade, some 15 alien species establish themselves in our coastal or inland waters and, in the absence ...

Over the past few decades, scientists have observed signifi cant changes in the state of Lake Winnipeg, which has in turn spawned an environmental awareness for many Manitobans and Canadians. Since the 1990s, algal ...

Over the last two decade there has been growing public and scientific concern about the health of Lake Winnipeg. In 1980, Brunskill et al. warned of a trend towards increasing nutrient supply from it watersheds, particularly ...