Boreal Oil Sand Mammals - Christina Lake Project

Boreal Oil Sand Mammals - Christina Lake Project

The Christina Lake Project seeks to understand how oil sands development, together with forest harvesting and roading, affect mammal communities in this highly developed corner of Alberta’s boreal forest. This unique landscape is a “petri dish” for landscape ecology research, s it contains a nearly intact boreal mammal community living in a very unique landscape of linear and areal features. 60 cameras traps deployed over 3500 km2 have collected data from 2011-2014 and again in 2018-present. Multiple publications on this work detail species distributions, density estimation, community responses, and mammal behaviour.