Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Joanne White
Michael Wulder
Andrés Varhola
Mikko Vastaranta
Nicholas Coops
Bruce Cook
Doug Pitt
Murray Woods
A best practice guide brings together state-of-the-art approaches, methods, and data to provide non-experts more detailed information about complex topics. With this guide, our goal is to inform and...
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Authors
Pierre Taillardat
Annika Linkhorst
Charles Deblois
Antonin Prijac
Laure Gandois
Alain Tremblay
Michelle Garneau
Peatlands store organic carbon available for decomposition and transfer to neighboring water bodies, which can ultimately generate carbon dioxide (CO 2) and methane (CH 4) emissions. The objective of...
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Authors
Cole Burton
Dave Huggard
Erin Bayne
Jim Schieck
Péter Sólymos
Tyler Muhly
Dan Farr
Stan Boutin
Effective ecological monitoring is imperative in a human-dominated world, as our ability to manage functioning ecosystems will depend on understanding biodiversity responses to anthropogenic impacts...
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Tracy Lee
Lea Randall
Nicole Kahal
Holly Kinas
Vanessa Carney
Heather Rudd
Tyne Baker
Ken Sanderson
Irena Creed
Axel Moehrenschlager
Danah Duke
Resource Date:
March
2022
Cities worldwide are expanding in area and human population, posing multiple challenges to amphibian populations, including habitat loss from removal of wetlands and terrestrial upland habitat...
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There is a need to define a common approach to wetland stewardship in the Yukon. The Policy for the stewardship of Yukon’s wetlands (“the policy”) represents the Government of Yukon’s approach to...
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Authors
Ilona Kater
Robert Baxter
The survival of reindeer during winter, their period of greatest food stress, depends largely on the abundance and accessibility of forage in their pastures. In Northern Sweden, realized availability...
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Authors
Tracy Davison
Judy Williams
Jan Adamczewski
A 24-page report of an aerial survey of Peary caribou and muskoxen on Banks Island in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region of the Northwest Territories. This resource and others can be found on the...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Royal Alberta Museum
Alberta Science Network
An introduction to Alberta's wetland classifications and biodiversity, created for Alberta Science Network classroom presentations. A wetland is a part of the land that holds water temporarily or...
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Authors
Kishan Sambaraju
Chantal Côté
Invasions of exotic forest insects and pathogens can devastate evolutionarily naïve habitats and could cause irreversible changes to urban and natural ecosystems. Given the ever-increasing volume of...
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Olaf Niemann
Fabio Visintini
Changes observed in the foliage of trees killed by bark beetles are usually described in terms of stages that have been related to a specific timeframe. The “green attack” stage is the period of time...
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Authors
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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Claudie Muller
Amila De Silva
Jeff Small
Mary Williamson
Xiaowa Wang
Adam Morris
Sharon Katz
Mary Gamberg
Derek Muir
The biomagnification behavior of perfluorinated carboxylates (PFCAs) and perfluorinated sulfonates (PFSAs) was studied in terrestrial food webs consisting of lichen and plants, caribou, and wolves...
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Mary Gamberg
A. Scheuhammer
Cadmium, zinc, copper and metallothionein concentrations were measured in liver and kidney tissue of caribou and muskoxen collected from various sites in the Canadian Yukon and Northwest Territories...
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Mariusz Gałka
Andrei-Cosmin Diaconu
Anna Cwanek
Lars Hedenäs
Klaus-Holger Knorr
Piotr Kołaczek
Edyta Łokas
Milena Obremska
Graeme 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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Authors
Lauren Thompson
M. Low
Renae Shewan
Christopher Schulze
M. Simba
Oliver Sonnentag
Suzanne Tank
David Olefeldt
Boreal rivers deliver dissolved organic carbon (DOC), mercury (Hg), and its neurotoxic form, methylmercury (MeHg), from contributing landscapes to downstream waters. In northern regions, thawing...
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Authors
Magali Houde
Eva Krümmel
Tero Mustonen
Jeremy Brammer
Tanya Brown
John Chételat
Parnuna Egede Dahl
Rune Dietz
Marlene Evans
Mary Gamberg
Marie-Josée Gauthier
José Gérin-Lajoie
Aviaja Lyberth Hauptmann
Joel Heath
Dominique Henri
Jane Kirk
Brian Laird
Mélanie Lemire
Ann Lennert
Robert Letcher
Sarah Lord
Lisa Loseto
Gwyneth MacMillan
Stefan Mikaelsson
Edda Mutter
Todd O'Hara
Sonja Ostertag
Martin Robards
Vyacheslav Shad
Arctic Indigenous Peoples are among the most exposed humans when it comes to foodborne mercury (Hg). In response, Hg monitoring and research have been on-going in the circumpolar Arctic since about...
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Resource Date:
December
2020
A mesocosm study was undertaken to support the development of end pit lake technology. The mesocosms were exposed to OSPW (Oil Sands Process affected Water) and dFFT (densified Fluid Fine Tails).
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Resource Date:
October
2018
This study utilized mesocosms to investigate the effects of oil sands process water (OSPW) and densified fluid fine tails (dFFT) on aquatic ecosystems to support development of end pit lake technology
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Authors
Christopher Brockman
William Collins
Jeffery Welker
Donald Spalinger
Bruce Dale
Resource Date:
March
2017
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
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This study examines the relationship between seed production, soil scarification and seedling establishment in balsam fir ( Abies balsamea [L.] Mill.) and white spruce ( Picea glauca [Moench] Voss)...