Wetland Knowledge Resources
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Jennifer Baltzer
Xanthe Walker
Sander Veraverbeke
Thomas Hessilt
Raquel Alfaro-Sanchez
Max van Gerrevink
Michelle Mack
Emily Ogden
Richard Olsen
Rebecca Scholten
Merritt Turetsky
Climate warming is increasing the prevalence of overwintering ‘zombie’ fres, which are expected to occur primarily in peatlands, undermining carbon storage through deep burning of organic soils. We...
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Road Impact Wetland Health Assessment (RIWHA) The B.C. Wildlife Federation has launched the Road Impact Wetland Health Assessment (RIWHA)—a rapid field assessment tool designed to identify how roads...
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Bethanie Walder
Julie Mulonga
Matt Simpson
The ‘Universal Declaration of Rights of Wetlands’, based on a constellation of eight rights around the right to exist, is a pathway for furthering wetlands conservation through ecosystem rights and...
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Government of Northwest Territories
The NWT Community-Based Water Quality Monitoring (CBM) program, launched in 2012 as part of the Northern Voices, Northern Waters Water Stewardship Strategy, aims to involve communities in water...
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Annschild is the founder of Victoria-based Rewilding Water & Earth. Since incorporating the venture in 2021, Annschild has built the company to a team of seven. It’s paid to design plans to restore...
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Many of Canada’s rivers no longer flow freely due to dams and other barriers restricting the movement of our native species. Watersheds have become degraded by human development to the point where...
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Jacqueline Dennett
Cris Gray
Emily Herdman
Jen Hird
Cynthia McClain
David Roberts
Murdoch Taylor
Andrew Underwood
Michael Wendlandt
The relationship between groundwater and its receiving environment is of particular interest in the Alberta oil sands region (OSR) where industrial operations have the potential to affect both the...
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Mackenzie Baysinger
Susanne Liebner
Jens Strauss
Sizhong Yang
Katharina Jentzsch
Alexander Bartholomäus
Claire Treat
Climate warming is predicted to rapidly change the local environmental conditions in peatland systems at high latitudes. This study explored soil respiration rates with microbial community...
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Temperature and moisture are two key factors that are expected to change under current and future climate projections, with significant impacts on ecosystems and biological communities. In northern...
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Kara Webster
Maria Strack
Nicole Balliston
Marissa Davies
Kathryn Hettinga
Miranda Hunter
Kimberly Kleinke
Megan Schmidt
Carlos Barreto
Melanie Bird
Kristen Blann
Kelly Bona
Allison Cassidy
John Connolly
Scott Davidson
Lee Fedorchuk
Michelle Garneau
Lorna Harris
Hongxing He
Sarah Howie
Adam Kirkwood
Nicholas Pontone
Karen Richardson
Nicole Sanderson
Gilles Seutin
Bin Xu
Xiangbo Yin
Knowledge and data on the current function, future threats, and benefits of peatlands in Canada are required to support evidence-based decision-making to ensure they continue to provide critical...
