I thank the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, Alberta Conservation Association, Alberta Innovates, Ducks Unlimited Canada, InnoTech Alberta, and Mitacs Accelerate for supporting this project. I thank Andrés Martinez Mayorga, Solomiya Kucharyshyn, Adrian Catbagan, Victoria Berg, Lesa Geisbrecht, and Samuel Bennett for assisting in the field and lab. I thank Lucien Lapierre for developing the consolidation index. I thank Divya Ram, Robert Hinchliffe, Cheryl Tebby, and Stephen Srayko for providing access to equipment. Finally, I thank my thesis supervisors Dr. Tyler Cobb and Dr. Carol Frost for guiding this project.

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