Wetland Knowledge Resources
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Matthew Elmes
Richard Petrone
Olena Volik
Jonathan Price
Resource Date:
February
2022
Study Region A channel fen in the Athabasca Oil Sands Area, Alberta, Canada Study Focus We assessed the hydrological changes to the hydrology of a moderate-rich fen after the construction of a road...
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John Gibson
Jean Birks
F.J. Castrillon-Munoz
Melissa House
Dale Vitt
Xiaoying Fan
Overall, the study established existence of long-term groundwater source areas around the margins of the peatland, as well as contemporary permafrost thaw zones within the McClelland Wetland itself.
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Zhongzhi Chen
Brian Eaton
Jim Davies
Overall, the literature supports the potential for aquatic snails to act as bioindicators of toxicity associated with oil sands process-affected-water exposure.
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Nicholas Coops
Rik Nuijten
Kristy Burke
Rebecca Edwards
Joanne White
Darren Pouliot
This video is a recording of the second webinar hosted by the Canadian Conservation and Land Management (CCLM) Knowledge Network on February 17th, 2022. During this presentation, Canada Research Chair...
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Resource Date:
February
2022
The Canadian Model for Peatlands (CaMP) was developed to address growing international pressure on Canada to better account for greenhouse gas emissions from peatlands in national and international...
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Wetland Knowledge Exchange
Resource Date:
February
2022
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: Linear...
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Author(s)
William Shotyk
Tommy Noernberg
Resource Date:
September
2020
Peat bogs are valuable archives of environmental change, including climate history, landscape evolution, and atmospheric deposition of trace elements, fallout radionuclides, and organic contaminants...
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Scott Davidson
Ellie Goud
Avni Malhotra
Claire Estey
Percy Korsah
Maria Strack
Resource Date:
April
2021
Vast areas of boreal peatlands are impacted by linear disturbances known as seismic lines. Tree removal and ground disturbance alter vegetation communities and are expected to change ecosystem...
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Chunjing Qiu
Philippe Ciais
Dan Zhu
Bertrand Guenet
Jinfeng Chang
Nitin Chaudhary
Thomas Kleinen
XinYu Li
Jurek Müller
Yi Xi
Wenxin Zhang
Ashley Ballantyne
Simon Brewer
Victor Brovkin
Dan Charman
Adrian Gustafson
Angela Gallego-Sala
Thomas Gasser
Joseph Holden
Fortunat Joos
Min Jung Kwon
Ronny Lauerwald
Paul Miller
Shushi Peng
Susan Page
Benjamin Smith
Benjamin Stocker
Britta Sannel
Elodie Salmon
Guy Schurgers
Narasinha Shurpali
David Wårlind
Sebastian Westermann
Resource Date:
January
2022
Northern peatlands store 300–600 Pg C, of which approximately half are underlain by permafrost. Climate warming and, in some regions, soil drying from enhanced evaporation are progressively...
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Government of Alberta (GoA)
A primary goal of this Guideline is to emphasize the long-standing preference for reclaiming and restoring public lands to the pre-disturbance land use type.