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Mammals of Nova Scotia
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Earthwatch Institute	Canada Halifax
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Working in a diversity of habitats, from forests to meadows and from wetlands to sweeping beaches, you will use various methods to monitor wildlife. You'll observe the behavior of raccoons, beavers, and skunks and the feeding habits of porcupines, and establish the locations of dens and wildlife trails. You may also use infared video surveillance and camera traps to monitor more elusive animals, such as fisher, coyote, or bobcat. You'll use trapping grids to sample rodents and shrews, and count deer droppings to provide density estimates and habitat preferences. You may also be involved with "lamping" for nocturnal wildlife, using bat-detectors to count bats, sampling invertebrates, surveying seabirds, and watching for marine wildlife.
Description:
Research Mission: Monitoring mammal populations to determine the potential impacts of climate change and other environmental changes. Situation Report: South Shore region, Nova Scotia, Canada — On Canada's rugged Atlantic Coast, Nova Scotia is a peninsula of wilderness twice the size of Massachusetts. Less than one million people live here, mostly along the 7,500 kilometers of meandering shoreline. That leaves lots of room for an abundance of wildlife, from white-tailed deer to meadow voles, lynx to loons, in the vast forests, rolling hills, and varied coastline of the South Shore region. Nova Scotia's ecological diversity is a product of delicately balanced environmental conditions, vulnerable to the rapid changes expected with global warming. You can help Drs. Christina Buesching and Chris Newman explore how Nova Scotia's wilderness ecosystem is coping with the impacts of climate change, with implications for forestry, hunting, and tourism so vital to the local economy....

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