The Rangeland Research Institute provides researchers with opportunity to conduct a wide range of short- and long-term research projects focused on providing a solid scientific foundation for the sustainable management of rangelands.
We support research that combines expertise and approaches from a variety of academic disciplines and addresses issues related to the competing demands of ecosystem conservation and resource use, including energy exploration and extraction, grazing, water management, wildlife management and biodiversity conservation, and sustainable landscape management.
Read the University of Alberta Beef and Range Report, published in August 2014.
Research project summaries. The table is searchable by keywords and topics (e.g. grazing) and summaries may be viewed and downloaded as pdf files:
Researchers | Project title (link to pdf of brief project summary) | keywords | Year | Locations |
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Dombro, Bork, Raatz | Combating annual brome grass invasion in Mixedgrass Prairies | Invasive species; downy brome | 2024 | public & private land, southern Alberta |
Zapisocki, Wagner, Murillo | Non-Native Plant Invasions in Prairie Grasslands of Alberta | Invasive species | 2023 | Mattheis Ranch and various in Alberta |
Behrouzi, Bork, Fitzsimmons, Basarab | Methane Emissions from Commercial Beef Cows During Open-Range Grazing in the Parkland | Precision ranching; greenhouse gases | 2022 | Kinsella Ranch |
Bork, Fitzsimmons | ‘Precision Ranching’ of Beef Cattle | Precision ranching; background | 2022 | Kinsella Ranch |
Mufford, Church, Carlyle | Using drones to measure heat stress in cattle | Precision ranching; cattle heat stress | 2022 | Kinsella Ranch |
Harland, Fitzsimmons, Bork | Virtual Fencing for Real-Time Flexible Control of Grazing Beef Cattle | Precision ranching; virtual fencing | 2022 | Kinsella Ranch |
Lopes, Fitzsimmons, Carlyle, Bork | Habitat Selection by Commercial Beef Cows Grazing Heterogeneous Aspen Parkland Rangeland | Precision ranching; cattle grazing & habitat selection | 2022 | Kinsella Ranch |
Oloyede, Fitzsimmons, Li, Bork | Characterizing Activity Budgets of Free-Range Beef Cows | Precision ranching; cattle grazing activity | 2022 | Kinsella Ranch |
Silva, Londono, Lasso | Assessing the impacts of weather in western grazing beef females | Precision ranching; cattle heat stress | 2022 | Kinsella Ranch |
Udeh, Fitzsimmons, Guan, Cahill, Bork | Using DNA Barcoding to Characterize Free-Range Beef Cattle Diets | Precision ranching; cattle grazing diet selection | 2022 | Kinsella Ranch |