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Groundwater Vulnerability in the Athabasca and Cold Lake Oil Sands Regions: Gaps, Opportunties, and Challenges

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Authors
Jean Birks
John Gibson
Jon Fennell
C.N. McClain
D. Sayanda
G. Bickerton
Y. Yi
F. Castrillon-Munoz
Organization
InnoTech Alberta (ITA)
University of Calgary (UofC)
University of Victoria (UVic)
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
Resource Date:
2025
Oil sands development in the Athabasca and Cold Lake oil sands regions of Alberta has raised concerns about potential impacts to groundwater and groundwater dependent ecosystems. This review...

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Regeneration Lags and Growth Trajectories Influence Passive Seismic Line Recovery in Western North American Boreal Forests

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Authors
Colleen Sutheimer
Angelo Filicetti
Leonardo Viliani
Scott Nielsen
Contacts
Colleen Sutheimer
Organization
University of Alberta (UofA)
Project
The Boreal Ecosystem Recovery and Assessment (BERA)
Resource Date:
2024
Across the western North American boreal region, networks of narrow clearings called seismic lines from oil and gas exploration fragment forests. Restoration of seismic lines for habitat recovery of...

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Anthropogenic Bottom-up and Top-down Impacts on Boreal Breeding Waterbirds

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Authors
Sari Holopainen
Kim Jaatinen
Toni Laaksonen
Andreas Lindén
Petri Nummi
Markus Piha
Hannu Pöysä
Tero Toivanen
Veli-Matti Väänänen
Mikko Alhainen
Aleksi Lehikoinen
Contacts
Sari Holopainen
Organization
University of Helsinki
University of Turku
Natural Resources Institute Finland
University of Eastern Finland
BirdLife Finland
Finnish Wildlife Agency
Resource Date:
2024
Wetland habitats are changing under multiple anthropogenic pressures. Nutrient leakage and pollution modify physico-chemical state of wetlands and affect the ecosystem through bottom-up processes...

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Wildfires Offset the Increasing but Spatially Heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 Uptake

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Authors
Anna-Maria Virkkala
Brendan Rogers
Jennifer Watts
Kyle Arndt
Stefano Potter
Isabel Wargowsky
Edward Schuur
Craig See
Marguerite Mauritz
Julia Boike
Marion Bret-Harte
Eleanor Burke
Arden Burrell
Namyi Chae
Abhishek Chatterjee
Frederic Chevallier
Torben Christensen
Roisin Commane
Han Dolman
Colin Edgar
Bo Elberling
Craig Emmerton
Eugenie Euskirchen
Liang Feng
Mathias Göckede
Achim Grelle
Manuel Helbig
David Holl
Järvi Järveoja
Sergey Karsanaev
Hideki Kobayashi
Lars Kutzbach
Junjie Liu
Ingrid Luijkx
Efrén López-Blanco
Kyle Lunneberg
Ivan Mammarella
Maija Marushchak
Mikhail Mastepanov
Yojiro Matsuura
Trofim Maximov
Lutz Merbold
Gesa Meyer
Mats Nilsson
Yosuke Niwa
Walter Oechel
Paul Palmer
Sang-Jong Park
Frans-Jan Parmentier
Matthias Peichl
Wouter Peters
Roman Petrov
William Quinton
Christian Rödenbeck
Christian Rödenbeck
Torsten Sachs
Christopher Schulze
Oliver Sonnentag
Vincent Louis
Eeva-Stiina Tuittila
Masahito Ueyama
Andrej Varlagin
Donatella Zona
Susan Natali
Contacts
Anna-Maria Virkkala
Organization
Northern Arizona University
Woodwell Climate Research Centre
University of Texas at Austin
Alfred Wegener Institute
Humboldt University of Berlin
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Science and Services
Korea University
California Institute of Technology
University Paris-Saclay
Aarhus University
University of Oulu
Columbia University
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Vrije Universiteit
University of Copenhagen
University of Alberta (UofA)
University of Edinburgh
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Linnaeus University
Dalhousie University
University of Montreal
GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences
University of Hamburg
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Russian Academy of Science
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
Wageningen University & Research
Greenland Institute of Natural Resources
San Diego State University
University of Helsinki
University of Eastern Finland
Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute
Agroscope
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
National Institute for Environmental Studies
Meteorological Research Institute (MRI)
Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI)
University of Oslo
University of Groningen
Wilfrid Laurier University
Technical University of Braunschweig
Osaka Metropolitan University
Resource Date:
2025
The Arctic–Boreal Zone is rapidly warming, impacting its large soil carbon stocks. Here we use a new compilation of terrestrial ecosystem CO2 fluxes, geospatial datasets and random forest models to...

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A Data Compilation and Synthesis of the Impacts of Seismic Surveys on Surface Soil Properties in Boreal Alberta, Canada

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Authors
Marissa Davies
Scott Davidson
Patrick Deane
Angelo Filicetti
Scott Ketcheson
Percy Korsah
Kimberly Kleinke
Scott Nielsen
Megan Schmidt
Nazia Tabassum
James Waddington
Lelia Weiland
Sophie Wilkinson
Maria Strack
Contacts
Marissa Davies
Organization
University of Waterloo
University of Plymouth
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
University of Alberta (UofA)
Athabasca University
McMaster University
University of Calgary (UofC)
Simon Fraser University
Resource Date:
2025
Linear clearings of vegetation to perform geophysical surveys, called seismic lines, are created for oil and gas exploration in boreal Canada and often persist on the landscape for decades after...

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Peat Depth and Carbon Storage of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada

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Authors
Yiyao Li
Daorui Han
Cheryl Rogers
Sarah Finkelstein
Oleksandra Hararuk
James Waddington
Carlos Barreto
James McLaughlin
James Snider
Alemu Gonsamo
Contacts
Alemu Gonsamo
Organization
McMaster University
Toronto Metropolitan University
University of Toronto (UofT)
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
World Wildlife Fund
Resource Date:
2024
The Hudson Bay Lowlands (HBL) are recognized as the second largest peatland complex in the world. Due to variability in peat thickness across a large and heterogeneous landscape, the existing carbon...

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Decrypting the Invasion of Non-native Cattails (Typha spp.) in the Fraser River Estuary, British Columbia, Using Morphological and Microsatellite Analyses

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Authors
Gracy Buckholtz
Daniel Stewart
Diana Percy
Tara Martin
Quentin Cronk
Contacts
Daniel Stewart
Organization
University of British Columbia (UBC)
Resource Date:
2025
Hybrid cattail ( Typha × glauca), a hybrid between native T. latifolia and introduced T. angustifolia, has been recently identified through macroscopic traits in the Fraser River Estuary (FRE), Canada...

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