Ressources de connaissances sur les terres humides

Groundwater dependent ecosystems (GDEs) are ecosystems that are maintained by direct or indirect access to groundwater, and rely on the flow or chemical characteristics of groundwater for some or all...

Many Indigenous communities in Canada have little or no access to water treatment facilities. Treatment wetlands could offer a nature-based solution with localized and decentralized wastewater...

In many regions, a tradeoff exists between draining wetlands to support the expansion of agricultural land, and conserving wetlands to maintain their valuable ecosystem services. Decisions about...

Remote sensing (RS) has been suggested as a tool to spatially monitor the status of peatland ecosystem functioning after restoration. However, there have been only a few studies in which post...

Climate-induced northward advance of boreal forest is expected to lessen albedo, alter carbon stocks, and replace tundra, but where and when this advance will occur remains largely unknown. Using data...

NatureCounts, a program of Birds Canada, is one of the world’s largest biodiversity data repositories. It collects and archives data from hundreds of citizen science and research projects, then makes...

Peatlands in the Canadian Boreal Forest are being negatively impacted by anthropogenic climate change, the effects of which are expected to worsen. Peatland types and sub-classes vary in their...

The Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) is a comprehensive international agreement aimed at halting and reversing biodiversity loss globally. It was established under the Convention on Biological...

Climate change has well-documented, yet variable, influences on the annual movements of migratory birds. The effects of climate change on fall migration remains understudied compared with spring but...

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