Ressources de connaissances sur les terres humides
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Joyson Ahongshangbam
Pascal Badiou
Darian Ng
Zoran Nesic
Aaron Glenn
Sara Knox
Abstract Wetlands provide many ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, climate regulation, biodiversity and water quality enhancement. Through evaporative cooling, wetland ecosystems also...
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Daniel Medina
Graham Clark
Sean Carey
ABSTRACT Surface mining in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) of western Canada disrupts natural landscapes and permanentlyalters their hydrological functions. Wetlands cover ~55% of the region...
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Abstract The Oil Sands Region (OSR) in Alberta, within Canada’s boreal forest, is a combination of three recognized oil deposits. The boreal forest in the OSR can reach peatland coverage of over 50%...
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Guillemette Labadie
Yan Boulanger
Pierre Drapeau
Diana Stralberg
Junior Tremblay
ABSTRACT Climate change presents a major threat to biodiversity, particularly in northern ecosystems. This study investigates the impacts of climate change and forest management on bird species...
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Taylor Saunders
Jaron Adkins
Trisha Atwood
Bonnie Warin
Karen Beard
Abstract Aims Herbivores create large differences in litter decomposition rates, but identifying how they do this can be difficult because they simultaneously influence both biotic and abiotic factors...
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Partnerships for Wetlands: A Case Study from Lac La Biche County Julia Shapka Lac La Biche County Wetlands play a critical role in Alberta’s landscapes, yet many have been lost in settled areas...
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Wetland Knowledge Exchange
The Wetland Knowledge Exchange releases monthly newsletters that highlight new research, publications, news, interesting facts, events and more. In this edition you will learn about: The Road Impact...
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This is essentially a visual tour of a small 25 km 2 watershed, last glaciated some 10,000 years ago, as seen from the perspective of an engineer charged with the responsibility for bringing about a...
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Margarete Kalin
R.G. Buggeln
Cattails are frequently one of the principal indigenous plant~ which colonize wet areas of tailings, whether on extremely alkaline surfaces or in highly acidic conditions. However the stands are often...
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Danielle Cobbaert
Craig Mahoney
Stephanie Connor
Joshua Montgomery
Vanessa de Koninck
Mina Nasr
Wendy Monk
Daniel Peters
Donald Baird
Since February 2012, the governments of Alberta and Canada have worked in partnership to implement an environmental monitoring program for the oil sands region. In December 2017 both governments...
