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Groundwater is everywhere around us and essential to human well-being and ecosystem health. Groundwater-dependent ecosystems are also important biodiversity hotspots that sustain unique communities of...
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Growing Pains: re-using dredged sediment for coastal marsh resilience and flood protection in the Fraser River Delta, British Columbia Eric Balke, MSc Ducks Unlimited Canada The Fraser River Delta is...
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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: How goose...
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Karisa Tyler
Myroslava Khomik
Daniele Castagneri
Matthew Elmes
Patrick Fonti
Georg von Arx
Michael Pisaric
Richard Petrone
Abstract Black spruce ( Picea mariana) growing in treed boreal fens in North America face significant challenges due to anticipated warming and moisture deficits. To assess site and climate influence...
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Maude Auclair
Stephanie Wright
David Olefeldt
Oliver Sonnentag
Abstract Increasing wildfire activity is driving permafrost thaw in subarctic peatlands across the southern Northwest Territories, but the key mechanisms and progression of thaw following fire remain...
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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 K. 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...
