Peatlands include information relating to peatlands defined as a wetland, colonized by vegetation allowing the formation of a soil made of peat that is the result of the fossilization of organic matter.**This third party metadata element was translated using an automated translation tool (Amazon Translate).**

The LiDAR data was produced for an Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada land and water resource study. The data is required to produce high resolution DEMs to improve hydrologic and environmental resource modelling within the area.

The AAFC Infrastructure Flood Mapping in Saskatchewan - Contours - 50 centimetre is the LiDAR contours with an interval of 0.5m of the capture area of Saskatchewan. The contours were modeled from the ground class at a maximum vertical distance of 0.5m and a horizontal distance of 20 m. Breaklines were not used around water features therefore a uniform height of water bodies is not necessarily present if overlapping data was collected on different days. Major contours were defined every 5m and minor contours every 0.5 m

Contour Lines generated from LiDAR data captured by McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd (MCSL). The contour lines connect points of equal elevation for the landscape covered by this project.

A towfish containing sidescan and video hardware was used to map eelgrass in two shallow northern New Brunswick estuaries. The sidescan and video data were useful in documenting suspected impacts of oyster aquaculture gear and eutrophication on eelgrass. With one boat and a crew of three, the mapping was accomplished at a rate of almost 10 km2 per day. That rate far exceeds what could be accomplished by a SCUBA based survey with the same crew. Moreover, the towfish survey applied with a complementary echosounder survey is potentially a more cost effective mapping method than satellite based remote sensing. Cite this data as: Vandermeulen H. Data of: Bay Scale Assessment of Eelgrass Beds Using Sidescan and Video - Richibucto 2007. Published: October 2017. Coastal Ecosystems Science Division, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dartmouth, N.S. https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/ca7af8ba-8810-4de5-aa91-473613b0b38d

This dataset accompanies the open access article "Improving satellite chlorophyll-a retrieval in the turbid waters of the Bay of Fundy, Canada" published in Estuaries and Coasts (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-024-01334-x). A full methods description is provided in the article. Briefly, we processed daily satellite data from the MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite from 2003 to 2021 at 300 m resolution to understand and quantify spatial and temporal trends in chlorophyll-a concentration (chl-a, a measure of phytoplankton biomass), and suspended particulate matter concentration (SPM) in the Bay of Fundy surface waters. This dataset provides the median yearly and seasonal climatology of chl-a (mg m-3 ) and SPM (g m-3) from 2003 to 2021 as geotiff layers. Here winter is defined as January to March, spring as April to June, summer as July to September, and fall as October to December. Chl-a was calculated with the OCX-SPMCor algorithm and SPM was calculated with the Nechad et al 2010 algorithm. Cite this data as: Wilson, K., Hilborn, A., Clay, S., Devred, E. Data of Satellite derived surface chlorophyll-a and suspended particulate matter in the Bay of Fundy from 2003 to 2021. Published February 2024. Ocean Ecosystem Science Division, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dartmouth, N.S. https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/272f5cf1-52bb-416b-b92a-8bc9384fc24d

The Planning for an Environmental Response (PIER) initiative falls under the umbrella of the Government of Canada's Oceans Protection Plan (OPP), whose goal is preserving marine ecosystems vulnerable to increased transportation and the development of the marine industry (https://pm.gc.ca/en/news/backgrounders/2016/11/07/canadas-oceans-protection-plan-preserving-and-restoring-canadas). The PIER was established in response to recommendations made in a 2013 report "A review of Canada's ship-source spill preparedness and response regime " by the Tanker Safety Expert Panel (https://tc.canada.ca/en/marine-transportation/marine-safety/tanker-safety-expert-panel). One of the recommendations calls on Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) to work with Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) to collect and compile information on sensitive species and environments for each Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) response area and make it publicly available. The PIERs’ main mandate is to acquire and update biological sensitivity data under its jurisdiction for preparation and response purposes in the event of an oil spill. With DFO-Science, PIER supports ECCC's National Environmental Emergencies Centre (NEEC) and the CCG in their preparations and responses through the sharing of data on biological sensitivities, the development of response tools and expert advice. In this vein, DFO published an analysis in 2018 that aimed to identify the most vulnerable components of the St. Lawrence in order to prioritize them during data collection if gaps were identified (Desjardins et al. 2018). This exercise highlighted the vulnerability of several biological components and important data gaps, particularly in coastal areas. As a result of this finding, the Quebec region PIEI team embarked on a collaborative project with the Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR) to map eelgrass beds, tidal marshes and macroalgal beds. In consultation with other DFO-Science data producers, this team has also created datasets adapted for response purposes, notably regarding bivalves and marine mammals. These layers may be used for oil spill preparedness and response by DFO-Quebec Region's Environmental Incident Coordinator, NEEC and CCG. Several of them, deemed relevant in the first 72 hours following a spill, have been transmitted to the NEEC.

A global decline in seagrass populations has led to renewed calls for their conservation as important providers of biogenic and foraging habitat, shoreline stabilization, and carbon storage. Eelgrass (Zostera marina) occupies the largest geographic range among seagrass species spanning a commensurately broad spectrum of environmental conditions. In Canada, eelgrass is managed as a single phylogroup despite occurring across three oceans and a range of ocean temperatures and salinity gradients. Previous research has focused on applying relatively few markers to reveal population structure of eelgrass, whereas a whole genome approach is warranted to investigate cryptic structure among populations inhabiting different ocean basins and localized environmental conditions. We used a pooled whole-genome re-sequencing approach to characterize population structure, gene flow, and environmental associations of 23 eelgrass populations ranging from the Northeast United States, to Atlantic, subarctic, and Pacific Canada. We identified over 500,000 SNPs, which when mapped to a chromosome-level genome assembly revealed six broad clades of eelgrass across the study area, with pairwise FST ranging from 0 among neighbouring populations to 0.54 between Pacific and Atlantic coasts. Genetic diversity was highest in the Pacific and lowest in the subarctic, consistent with colonization of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans from the Pacific less than 300 kya. Using redundancy analyses and two climate change projection scenarios, we found that subarctic populations are predicted to be more vulnerable to climate change through genomic offset predictions. Conservation planning in Canada should thus ensure that representative populations from each identified clade are included within a national network so that latent genetic diversity is protected, and gene flow is maintained. Northern populations, in particular, may require additional mitigation measures given their potential susceptibility to a rapidly changing climate. Cite this data as: Jeffery, Nicholas et al. (2024). Data from: Variation in genomic vulnerability to climate change across temperate populations of eelgrass (Zostera marina) [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.xpnvx0kp2

Layer that includes the known information on rainbow smelt breeding and feeding areas in the Saguenay River, the fluvial section and Estuary of St. Lawrence according to a literature review of documents produced between 1977 and 2000. Additional Information Rainbow smelt's breeding and feeding areas were produced according to a literature review of the following documents: Argus inc. (Les consultants en environnement). 1995b. Barachois de Malbaie: étude d'avant-projet de conservation et de mise en valeur. Rapport présenté au Club des ornithologues de la Gaspésie dans le cadre du programme Saint-Laurent Vision 2000. 71 p. + ann. Bouthillier, L., P. Dumont et G. Roy. 1993. Répertoire des habitats du poisson de la région de Montréal, Québec. Ministère du Loisir, de la Chasse et de la Pêche du Québec, Direction régionale de Montréal. ii + 6 p. + fiches d'habitats + 18 cartes d'habitats à l'échelle 1:50 000 + bibliographie 15 p. Dubé, J., M. Letendre, M. Beaudoin et B. Dumas. 1992. Marina l'Escale inc. Relevés sur l'habitat du poisson au printemps 1992. Lots 6-P, 7-P et littoral de la rivière Richelieu, Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, MRC du Haut-Richelieu. Québec, Ministère du Loisir, de la Chasse et de la Pêche, Service de l'aménagement et de l'exploitation de la faune, Montréal, 13 p. + annexes. Dumont, P. et R. Fortin. 1977. Relations entre les niveaux d'eau printaniers et la reproduction du Grand Brochet du Haut-Richelieu et de la baie Missisquoi. Université du Québec à Montréal, Département des sciences biologiques, pour le Bureau international Champlain Richelieu, Comité d'impact sur l'environnement, x + 108 p. Dumont, P., J. Leclerc et Y. Chagnon. 1990. Pêche électrique sur la rivière Yamaska le 18 avril 1990. Québec, Ministère du Loisir de la Chasse et de la Pêche, Service de l'aménagement et de l'exploitation de la faune, Montréal. [Données non publiées]. Enquête auprès des agents des pêches du MPO. 1994. Fréchet, A., Dodson J.J., Powles, H. 1983. Les parasites de l'éperlan d'amérique (Osmerus mordax) anadrome du Québec et leur utilité comme étiquettes biologiques. Canadian journal of zoology no 61: 621-626. Gagnon, M., Y. Ménard et J.-F. La Rue. 1993. Caractérisation et évaluation des habitats du poisson dans la zone de transition saline du Saint-Laurent. Rapp. tech. can. sci. halieut. aquat. 1920: viii + 104 p. Jacquaz et coll. 1990. Étude biophysique de l'habitat du poisson de quatre barachois de la baie des Chaleurs. Lemieux, C. 1995. Acquisition de connaissances des habitats côtiers dans la région de Rimouski (1995). Rapport du Groupe-Conseil GENIVAR présenté au Ministère des Pêches et des Océans du Canada, Division de la Gestion de l’Habitat du Poisson, 52 pages + 2 annexes. Lemieux, C. et R. Lalumière. 1995. Acquisition de connaissances des habitats côtiers du barachois de Saint-Omer. Rap. du Groupe conseil Genivar inc. pour la DGHP, MPO, 44 pages + 3 ann. Lemieux, C. 1996. Acquisition de connaissances des habitats côtiers de l'Anse Saint-Jean et de la baie Sainte- Marguerite dans la région du Saguenay. Rap. du Groupe conseil Genivar inc. pour la DGHP, ministère des Pêches et Océans, 79 p. + annexes. Lesueur, C. 1995. Acquisition de connaissances du milieu côtier dans la batture de Saint-Fulgence. Rapport du Comité ZIP-Saguenay au ministère des Pêches et des Océans du Canada et au Ministère de l'Environnement et de la Faune. 38 p. + annexes. Lesueur, C. 1998. Acquisition de connaissances sur les poissons migrateurs et dulcicoles du Saguenay. Rapport du projet triennal : résultats obtenus de 1995 à 1998. Rapport du Comité ZIP-Saguenay au ministère des Pêches et des Océans Canada, au ministère de l'Environnement et de la Faune et à Patrimoine Canada. 74 p. + annexe. Letendre, M., B. Dumas et M. Beaudoin. 1990. Inventaire de la rivière des Prairies, au niveau de l'île de Pierre. Québec, Ministère du Loisir de la Chasse et de la Pêche, Service de l'aménagement et de l'exploitation de la faune, Montréal. [Travaux en cours]. Logimer. 1985. Développement d'un programme de conservation et de reconstitution des habitats lagunaires gaspésiens. Rapport présenté à Pêches et Océans Canada, section Habitat du poisson. 306 p. et annexes. Naturam Environnement. 1997. Acquisition de connaissances et mise en valeur des habitats du poisson du complexe Baie Verte/Baie Laval, phase 3 : rapport final. Document réalisé par la Corporation de développpement de la Baie Verte avec l'aide du MPO dans le cadre du Plan d'action pour l'habitat du poisson. Pageau, G. et R. Tanguay. 1977. Frayères, sites propices à la reproduction, et sites de concentration de jeunes poissons d'intérêt sportif et commercial dans le fleuve Saint-Laurent. Rapport soumis au Comité d'étude sur le fleuve Saint-Laurent par le Ministère du Tourisme, de la Chasse et de la Pêche, Rapp. tech. 3, 436 p. Pesca. 1997. Étude de conservation et de mise en valeur de la Pointe Verte, Maria. Rapport préliminaire présenté au ministère des Pêches et des Océans. 86p. Société de la Faune et des Parcs du Québec. 2000. Atlas des habitats critiques connus ou d'intérêt particulier pour les poissons du fleuve Saint-Laurent entre le port de Montréal et l'Île aux Coudres. Direction du développement de la faune.