19 record(s) found with the tag "adaptation" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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Licence #5070
Principal Investigator: MacDonald, Glen M
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To collect surface samples from small lakes to reconstruct the response of plant populations in the treeline zone to climatic change....


Licence #5058
Principal Investigator: Kukal, Olga
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: Investigation of the physiological adaptations enabling the survival of Gynaephora groenlandica (a moth) in the high arctic environment....


Licence #4092
Principal Investigator: Hutchinson, Tom
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To continue studies of the Smoking Hills into the nature of the adaptations by which aquatic biota and tundra plants survive the intense acidic fumigations from the burning cliffs. Focus will be on the algae and zooplankton of tundra ponds and samples will be taken for identification by microscopic study on the spot and others preserved for later identification....


Licence #2618
Principal Investigator: Johnson, Edward A.
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To conduct a study of the degree to which 32 species of plants adapt and change to meet changing environmental conditions....


Licence #2538
Principal Investigator: Ring, Richard A.
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To undertake a comparative study of the frost tolerance of Arctic insects with those of southern Canada....


Licence #2426
Principal Investigator: Svoboda, Josef
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: (1) A radiocesium study. (2) A study of how tundra plant communities have adapted and evolved, their distribution, abundance and productivity....


Licence #2327
Principal Investigator: Somers, David E.
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: To investigate the cold hardiness of two high arctic plant species....


Licence #2315
Principal Investigator: Ring, Richard A.
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: To observe and study the habitat of Arctic insects and to collect specimens to compare their resistance to cold with that of similar species in the south....


Licence #2271
Principal Investigator: Svoboda, Josef
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: To study plant communities, their distribution, abundance, and productivity and to study how certain plants have adapted to arctic environments....


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