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Technicians survey tree in the field (Photo by NCC)

Technicians survey tree in the field (Photo by NCC)

Featured research

 
Featured research stories are from Land Lines, the Nature Conservancy of Canada blog.

  • Premek Hamr, PhD (a.k.a. Dr. Crayfish) (Photo courtesy of Premek Hamr, PhD)

    Dr. Crayfish, I presume?

    Meet a crayfish enthusiast and researcher who goes by the name Dr. Crayfish.
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  • East bank of Centre Creek overrun by dense Himalayan blackberry (Photo by Lynn Pinnell)

    Himalayan blackberry and English holly and Japanese knotweed…oh my!

    Lynn Pinnell reports back from her independent research project on the occurrences of invasive species at NCC's Centre Creek property in...
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  • An example of a classic spring. Tufa spring, Fort Ellice, MB (Photo by NCC)

    Manitoba's mystery stonefly

    Everyone enjoys a good mystery, even entomologists. During the early years of teaching a course in aquatic entomology at the University of...
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  • Big brown bat (Photo by Brock Fenton)

    Identifying bats by their distinctive voices

    Having studied bats for more than a decade, I have been fortunate to be able talk to students in their classrooms while doing bat...
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  • Monarch butterfly (Photo by A. Dabydeen)

    Monarch butterfly habitat selection

    Grace Pitman shares how monarchs select their habitat during the breeding season, as part of my graduate studies in ecology at the University...
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  • The sea star team (from left to right: Maggie Cascadden, Marianna DiMauro, Chloe Boyle, Aimee McGowan, Mike Huck) (Photo by Anne Salomon)

    The rocky intertidal: Starring Pisaster ochraceus

    Between ocean and land exists a remarkable place unlike any other in the world: the intertidal zone, where marine ecosystems are both exposed...
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  • The big ears, strong bite and honey-coloured downy fur make this rare male pallid bat distinctive. (Photo by Richard McGuire)

    Tailing biologists on a local "bat blitz" near Osoyoos

    It’s Sunday afternoon and I have a date with a large group of biologists conducting a bat blitz at the Sage and Sparrow Conservation area...
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  • Small white lady's-slipper (Photo by Melissa Grantham)

    Pollination deception: Manitoba’s lady’s slipper orchids

    In Manitoba we have several species of lady’s slipper orchids, but the two I am most interested in, and have researched, are the yellow lady’s...
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