Habitat & Species

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Limited scientific information suggests that the health and abundance of aquatic habitat and species within the Liard sub-basin have not significantly changed in the Liard sub-basin. No documented sources of Indigenous Knowledge information related to changes in aquatic habitat and species were found.

Information Availability

The following table summarizes the availability of information for each Habitat and Species indicator.

Signs and Signals	Indigenous Knowledge Information and Data	Indigenous Knowledge Availability in Public Sources1	Science Information and Data2	Science Data Availability2
Fish	Oral histories and local observations of fish abundance, timing and distribution, species diversity and fish health condition. Local observations about changes in timing of local fishing activity and yield.	Some observations from few locations.	Fish (including salmon, suckers, pickerels, burbot) abundance, timing and distribution, species diversity and fish health condition/	Limited data available.
Wetlands	Oral histories and stories of wetland and forest (and other habitat / land use) Local observations and oral histories of number, location and total area of wetlands	Some observations from few locations.	Number, location and total area of wetlands. Species diversity in wetlands where available.	Limited information on wetland cover and no information on change over time. Scientific information on muskrat and beaver populations was not gathered for this report.
Riparian Forests	Local observations and oral histories of riparian forests	No information found.	Number, location, total area of riparian forests areas. Species diversity of riparian forests where available.	Limited data, only information available for the BC portion of the sub-basin.

¹ Qualifiers for the availability of local and Indigenous Knowledge observations in publicly available sources: Limited = 1-2 observations; Some = 3-4 observations; Many = 5 or more observations
² Qualifiers for the availability of science data in publicly available sources: Low = Individual studies or locations; Many = Network of monitoring stations across the basin

This is a page made to test citation insertion using the Zotpress plugin.

The default in-text citation format for the plugin’s chicago-author-date style looks like the one at the end of this sentence.

These are the default in-text formatting settings that will obtain the prior style of in-text link:
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Changing the in-text formatting code to (%num%) will alter the in-text link to look like the one at the end of this sentence. This shows that we can manually set the in-text links to a dynamic numerical format (starting from 1 on each page).

Changing the in-text formatting code to (%a%. %d%) will alter the in-text link to look like the one at the end of this sentence. This shows that we can manually change the punctuation of the in-text links.

 

Hovering over any of these in-text links will show their full bibliographic entry. Try it out if you like.

Now click on any of these in-text links to be directed to the bottom of this page where I’ll discuss the practical usage of this plugin further.

Wetlands & Riparian Forests

Riparian areas in the British Columbia portion of the Liard sub-basin are largely intact. Documented sources of information on wetlands and riparian forests in the sub-basin is limited.

Riparian Areas in the British Columbia portion of sub-basin are largely Intact:

All Liard sub-basins in British Columbia have at least 90% of their riparian ecosystems intact. The greatest disturbance to riparian ecosystems is due to forestry, agriculture and municipal activities.((NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd. 2014. Area-based Analysis for the Liard Unconventional Gas Basin – Version 1.))

There are no documented sources of Indigenous Knowledge information related to changes in wetlands or riparian forests

Documented sources of Indigenous Knowledge information regarding changes in wetland cover or riparian forests in the Liard sub-basin were not found.

((NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd. 2014. Area-based Analysis for the Liard Unconventional Gas Basin – Version 1.))

Wetland near Fort Nelson, BC. Image source: Murray Foubister via Flickr Creative Commons (copyright-free).

There is limited scientific data on the number and location of wetlands

The overall coverage of wetlands in the Liard sub-basin is small (1%), based on Land Cover statistics. A Canadian Wetland inventory completed recently indicates more wetland land cover than that estimated by land cover mapping cited above, but is still under development and requires field-validation.

Wetland Mapping for the Liard Sub-basin as part of a published Canadian Wetland Inventory that still requires validation.

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Using Zotpress, the bibliography section will need to be manually added into the code for each of our pages as the plugin doesn’t add this automatically.

Zotpress includes no option to scroll back up to the initial reference in the content, it only has the option to scroll from the in-content link down to the bibliography section. For our purposes this is actually a positive since it will allow us to avoid the issue that in-text citations were causing by them not being detected on scroll-up if in closed accordions.

Also worth noting is that there’s no way to add or edit references in the Zotero account’s cloud from within WordPress. Zotpress only connects to the existing data associated with our website’s connected Zotero account. To add, edit, or remove reference data we would have to do it using Zotero’s non-WordPress interface and our connected Zotero account’s login info. However, any updates made to the data on our Zotero cloud will automatically update on our website.

Considering the above points, as well as the ability of Zotero to integrate with Google Docs and Microsoft Word (source: google_docs [Zotero Documentation]), I recommend we implement the plugin Zotpress on the SOAER website, and potentially start using Zotero to manage our future SOAER references going forward.

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