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@Risk North 3 12
This open event, hosted by The Canadian Association of Research Libraries and co-sponsoring organizations including Canadian Research Knowledge Network, Library and Archives Canada, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Internet Archive Canada, Digital Research Alliance of Canada, and the Digital Preservation Coalition provided an opportunity for those at Canadian institutions who have strategic or operational responsibility for long-term access and preservation of digital content to learn from each other about progress, practices and policies for digital preservation in a Canadian context.
Academic Writing Resources and Research 4
The University of Alberta provides a variety of writing supports that are accessible, learner-centered, relevant, and responsive to the community's diverse needs.
ACCES Research Group 10
The Alberta Continuing Care Epidemiological Studies (ACCES) was a province-wide research program involving over 2,000 older adults residing in designated assisted/supportive living facilities (DAL) and in long-term care facilities (LTC) between 2006 and 2009, their family caregivers, and the facilities in which they lived. The objectives of ACCES were: a) to examine the health, social needs, and quality of care of older adults in DAL and LTC facilities in Alberta, b) to identify the mix of services provided to these residents, including assistance from family caregivers, and c) to examine health outcomes across settings, taking resident and facility characteristics into account.
Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, Department of 557
The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science offers thesis programs leading to Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees, as well as course-based programs leading to Master of Agriculture, Master of Engineering and Master of Science degrees. The Department has active research programs in the following areas of specialization: Animal Science, Plant Science, Food Science and Technology, Nutrition and Metabolism, Bioresource and Food Engineering, Rangeland and Wildlife Resources and Bioresource Technology
Agricultural, Life, and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of 37
The Faculty of ALES is where global challenges are met with innovative solutions. Every day, world-class research is conducted by the finest minds in the natural sciences, social sciences and business. While we are one of the oldest faculties on campus, our cross disciplinary approach, and commitment to excellence, positions us uniquely to provide solutions to some of the world’s most complex problems.

Recent Submissions

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The Hill Times, Wednesday, January 21, 2026
(2026-01-21) Hill Times Publishing
The newspaper of Parliament.
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The Hill Times, Monday, January 19, 2026
(2026-01-19) Hill Times Publishing
The newspaper of Parliament.
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Data and R scripts supporting "Social and structural traits influence species gains while resources influence species losses in a native grassland".
(2026-01-18) Holden, Emily M.; Cahill, James F. Jr.
Multiple factors influence temporal species turnover, including resource requirements and species traits. The standard model in plant ecology is that adding soil nutrients will result in taller communities, reducing understory light levels and leading to species loss via size asymmetric competition. However, underlying this model is the notion that competitive dynamics are outcomes of individual species characteristics rather than an emergent trait of the suite of species involved in the interactions. Thus, whether plant social context (identities and interactions of neighbours) impacts competitive outcomes is unclear and potentially overlooked. Using data from a three-year field study manipulating light and soil resources, we asked how resource manipulations, community diversity, or structural (physiological) and social (interactions with neighbours) traits influenced species turnover. We created co-occurrence networks to develop novel metrics that capture the prevalence of positive and negative associations for each of 24 species in a native grassland community. We then estimated temporal beta diversity to partition species turnover into gains, losses and turnover, testing whether these compositional changes were impacted by resource manipulations or communities’ structural or social traits. We found evidence that resources, structural traits, and social traits all impacted aspects of community assembly. Nutrient addition but not reduced light increased species losses, and communities with either high or low specific leaf area (SLA) and root tissue density (RTD) community-weighted mean (CWM) trait values gained more species. Communities consisting of species forming numerous positive species co-occurrences gained fewer species throughout the study than communities of species forming fewer positive co-occurrences. Thus, a species’ tendency to form positive co-occurrences has a functional consequence for community-level compositional stability. Resource addition increased species losses independently of CWM height, suggesting it was not size-asymmetric competition for light that resulted in species loss in our study. Together, these results challenge the notion that nutrient-driven species loss is primarily mediated by size-asymmetric competition, highlighting the role of species’ social interactions in governing community change.
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Insight into government, January 16, 2026
(2026-01-16) Dolphin, Ric; Dolphin Media Inc.
Alberta's independent newsletter on government & politics.
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Le Franco, Volume 96, No. 1
(2026-01-15) Le Franco