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Sari Holopainen
Elmo Miettinen
Veli-Matti Väänänen
Petri Nummi
Hannu Pöysä
Wetlands belong to the globally most threatened habitats, and organisms depending on them are of conservation concern. Wetland destruction and quality loss may affect negatively also boreal breeding...
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Piyush Jain
Quinn Barber
Steve Taylor
Ellen Whitman
Dante Castellanos Acuna
Yan Boulanger
Raphael Chavardes
Jack Chen
Peter Englefield
Mike Flannigan
Martin Girardin
Chelene Hanes
John Little
Kimberly Morrison
Rob Skakun
Dan Thompson
Xianli Wang
Marc-Andre Parisien
The 2023 wildfire season in Canada was unprecedented in its scale and intensity. Spanning from late April to early November and extending across much of the forested regions of Canada, the season...
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Mariusz Gałka
Andrei-Cosmin Diaconu
Anna Cwanek
Lars Hedenäs
Klaus-Holger Knorr
Piotr Kołaczek
Edyta Łokas
Milena Obremska
Graeme T. Swindles
Angelica Feurdean
Rapidly increasing temperatures in high-latitude regions are causing major changes in wetland ecosystems. To assess the impact of concomitant hydroclimatic fluctuations, mineral deposition, and...
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Cassandra Andrew
Brent Wagner
Jane Harms
Emily Jenkins
Thomas Jung
Surveillance of endoparasites at the host community level is rarely reported for ungulates. Yet, changes in the composition and abundance of species in ungulate assemblages, coupled with environmental...
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Jody Daniel
Rebecca C Rooney
The hydroperiod (i.e., the length of time ponded water is present) of prairie potholes is sensitive to climate change. Because snowmelt runoff is the largest contributor to ponded water amounts, a...
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Ian Best
Leonie Brown
Che Elkin
Laura Finnegan
Cameron McClelland
Chris Johnson
Context Large-scale natural disturbances are crucial drivers of ecosystem function and composition for many forested ecosystems. In the last century, the prevalence of anthropogenic disturbances has...
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M. L. Hunter
R. J. Frei
I. B. Strachan
M. Strack
The installation of drainage ditches and removal of vegetation in preparation for vacuum harvesting alters the carbon dynamics of peatlands. However, we lack the measurements to understand the spatial...
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Hans Skatter
Micheal Charlebois
Simon Coats
The federal recovery strategy for woodland caribou identifies wildfires within the last 40 years and anthropogenic disturbance visible at a scale of 1:50,000, including a 500-m buffer, as disturbed...
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Katherine M. Standen
Jennifer L. Baltzer
Questions Rapid climate change in northern latitudes is expected to influence plant functional traits of the whole community (community-level traits) through species compositional changes and/or trait...
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Melanie Dickie
Robert Serrouya
Marcus Becker
Craig DeMars
Michael Noonan
Robin Steenweg
Stan Boutin
Adam Ford
Anthropogenic habitat alteration and climate change are two well-known contributors to biodiversity loss through changes to species distribution and abundance; yet, disentangling the effects of these...
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Rebecca Taylor
Micheline Manseau
Sonesinh Keobouasone
Peng Liu
Gabriela Mastromonaco
Kristen Solmundson
Allicia Kelly
Nicholas Larter
Mary Gamberg
Helen Schwantje
Caeley Thacker
Jean Polfus
Leon Andrew
Dave Hervieux
Deborah Simmons
Paul Wilson
High intra-specific genetic diversity is associated with adaptive potential, which is key for resilience to global change. However, high variation may also support deleterious alleles through genetic...
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Jonas Mortelmans
Anne Felsberg
Gabriëlle De Lannoy
Sander Veraverbeke
Robert Field
Niels Andela
Michel Bechtold
The Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) system, even though originally developed and calibrated for an upland Jack pine forest, is used globally to estimate fire danger for any fire environment. However...
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J. D. White
D. Ahrén
L. Ström
J. Kelly
L. Klemedtsson
B. Keane
F. J. W. Parmentier
An increased frequency of droughts due to anthropogenic climate change can lead to considerable stress for soil microorganisms and their functioning within northern peatlands. A better understanding...
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Millicent Gaston
Andrew Barnas
Rebecca Smith
Sean Murray
Jason Fisher
Many large carnivores, despite widespread habitat alteration, are rebounding in parts of their former ranges after decades of persecution and exploitation. Cougars (Puma concolor) are apex predator...
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Colin McCarter
Stephen Kaufman
Brian Branfireun
James Waddington
Despite their importance in carbon cycling and catchment runoff dynamics, the hydrology of temperate peat swamps in response to changing hydrometeorological conditions is largely understudied. We...
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Joshua F. Dean
Michael F. Billett
T. Edward Turner
Mark H. Garnett
Roxane Andersen
Rebecca M. McKenzie
Kerry J. Dinsmore
Andy J. Baird
Pippa J. Chapman
Joseph Holden
Peatlands are globally important stores of soil carbon (C) formed over millennial timescales but are at risk of destabilization by human and climate disturbance. Pools are ubiquitous features of many...
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James Maltman
Nicholas Coops
Gregory Rickbeil
Txomin Hermosilla
Cole Burton
Habitat disturbance is a major driver of the decline of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in Canada. Different disturbance agents and regimes negatively impact caribou populations to...
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K Best
D Zona
E Briant
Chun-Ta Lai
D A Lipson
K R McEwing
S J Davidson
W C Oeche
Significant uncertainties persist concerning how Arctic soil tundra carbon emission responds to environmental changes. In this study, 24 cores were sampled from drier (high centre polygons and rims)...
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Ville Vasko
Simon Gaultier
Anna Blomberg
Thomas Lilley
Kai Norrdahl
Jon Brommer
Wetlands are important habitats for insectivorous bats, as the presence of water promotes insect abundance and provides drinking water for wildlife, and therefore could promote bat conservation...
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Anthony Stewart
Meghan Halabisky
Chad Babcock
David E. Butman
David D’Amore
Monika Moskal
Inland wetlands are critical carbon reservoirs storing 30% of global soil organic carbon (SOC) within 6% of the land surface. However, forested regions contain SOC-rich wetlands that are not included...