Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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If you live in western Canada chances are you’ve seen a seismic line. Narrow corridors cut through the bush, seismic lines facilitate access for people and equipment to conduct geophysical surveys to...
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Authors
Jacques Brisson
Mariana Rodriguez
Charles Martin
Raphaël Proulx
Resource Date:
January
2020
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Authors
Kirsten Lees
Tristan Quaife
Rebekka Artz
Myroslava Khomik
Joanna Clark
Resource Date:
February
2015
Peatlands store large amounts of terrestrial carbon and any changes to their carbon balance could cause large changes in the greenhouse gas (GHG) balance of the Earth's atmosphere. There is still much...
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Authors
Sheel Bansal
Irena Creed
Brian Tangen
Scott Bridgham
Ankur Desai
Ken Krauss
Scott Neubauer
Gregory Noe
Donald Rosenberry
Carl Trettin
Kimberly Wickland
Scott Allen
Ariane Arias‑Ortiz
Anna Armitage
Dennis Baldocchi
Kakoli Banerjee
David Bastviken
Peter Berg
Matthew Bogard
Alex Chow
William Conner
Christopher Craft
Courtney Creamer
Tonya DelSontro
Jamie Duberstein
Meagan Eagle
Siobhan Fennessy
Sarah Finkelstein
Mathias Göckede
Sabine Grunwald
Meghan Halabisky
Ellen Herbert
Mohammad Jahangir
Olivia Johnson
Miriam Jones
Jefrey Kelleway
Sara Knox
Kevin Kroeger
Kevin Kuehn
David Lobb
Amanda Loder
Shizhou Ma
Damien Maher
Gavin McNicol
Jacob Meier
Beth Middleton
Christopher Mills
Purbasha Mistry
Abhijit Mitra
Courtney Mobilian
Charles Schutte
Changchun Song
Camille Stagg
Jessica Turner
Rodrigo Vargas
Mark Waldrop
Marcus Wallin
Zhaohui Aleck Wang
Eric Ward
Debra Willard
Stephanie Yarwood
Xiaoyan Zhu
Wetlands cover a small portion of the world, but have disproportionate influence on global carbon (C) sequestration, carbon dioxide and methane emissions, and aquatic C fluxes. However, the underlying...
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Resource Date:
December
2021
This Briefing Note presents key information on practical peatland rewetting and restoration on site. It formulates general guiding principles applicable to all peatland restoration practices and...
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Abstract Gas through-flow by pressurised ventilation is well known in floating-leaved aquatic plants. The ventilation system operates via different structural features in different species: being...
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Authors
Chantel Markle
Paul Moore
Mike Waddington
Identifying ecosystems resilient to climate and land-use changes is recognized as essential for conservation strategies. However, wetland ecosystems may respond differently to stressors depending on...
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Authors
Anke Günther
Alexandra Barthelmes
Vytas Huth
Hans Joosten
Gerald Jurasinski
Franziska Koebsch
John Couwenberg
Peatlands are strategic areas for climate change mitigation because of their matchless carbon stocks. Drained peatlands release this carbon to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide (CO2). Peatland...
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Canada can leverage nature as an important tool towards reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by increasing the protection of key ecosystems, such as: northern peatland complexes in the Hudson...
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Authors
Hui Zhang
Minna Väliranta
Graeme Swindles
Marco Aquino-López
Donal Mullan
Ning Tan
Matthew Amesbury
Kirill Babeshko
Kunshan Bao
Anatoly Bobrov
Viktor Chernyshov
Marissa Davies
Andrei-Cosmin Diaconu
Angelica Feurdean
Sarah Finkelstein
Michelle Garneau
Zhengtang Guo
Miriam Jones
Martin Kay
Eric Klein
Mariusz Lamentowicz
Gabriel Magnan
Katarzyna Marcisz
Natalia Mazei
Yuri Mazei
Richard Payne
Nicolas Pelletier
Sanna Piilo
Steve Pratte
Thomas Roland
Damir Saldaev
William Shotyk
Thomas Sim
Thomas Sloan
Michał Słowiński
Julie Talbot
Liam Taylor
Andrey Tsyganov
Sebastian Wetterich
Wei Xing
Yan Zhao
Resource Date:
August
2022
High-latitude peatlands are changing rapidly in response to climate change, including permafrost thaw. Here, we reconstruct hydrological conditions since the seventeenth century using testate amoeba...
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In the Stat~ of Illinois lands that have been abandoned after deep mining or strip mining of coal present unique land reclamation problems. One such area is the Staunton l Reclamation Site. Through...
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Ducks Unlimited Canada, a non-profit private conservation organization, has been involved in the preservation and creation of waterfowl habitat in Canada for 49 years. Project development occurs...
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K. Best
Donatella Zona
E Briant
Chun-Ta Lai
David Lipson
K.R. McEwing
Scott Davidson
Walter Oeche
Significant uncertainties persist concerning how Arctic soil tundra carbon emission responds to environmental changes. In this study, 24 cores were sampled from drier (high centre polygons and rims)...
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Ville Vasko
Simon Gaultier
Anna Blomberg
Thomas Lilley
Kai Norrdahl
Jon Brommer
Wetlands are important habitats for insectivorous bats, as the presence of water promotes insect abundance and provides drinking water for wildlife, and therefore could promote bat conservation...
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Authors
L. Dinesen
H. Joosten
Line Rochefort
R. Lindsay
S. Glatzel
Resource Date:
November
2021
Peatlands cover about 400 million hectares (ha), or 3% of the land surface of our planet. Yet they store more carbon, more effectively and for longer periods, than any other ecosystem on land. Intact...
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New Brunswick Environmental Network
The objective of this toolkit is to create a hub of information needed by watershed and restoration groups who want to create a riparian reforestation project. This toolkit hopes to take you through...
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Anthony Stewart
Meghan Halabisky
Chad Babcock
David Butman
David D’Amore
Monika Moskal
Inland wetlands are critical carbon reservoirs storing 30% of global soil organic carbon (SOC) within 6% of the land surface. However, forested regions contain SOC-rich wetlands that are not included...
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Ronny Seidel
Ullrich Dettmann
Bärbel Tiemeyer
Peat and other organic soils (e.g., organo-mineral soils) show distinctive volume changes through desiccation and wetting. Important processes behind volume changes are shrinkage and swelling. There...
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Authors
Saraswati Saraswati
Yubraj Bhusal
Andrew Trant
Maria Strack
Peatlands in the western boreal plains of Canada are important ecosystems as they store over two percent of global terrestrial carbon. However, in recent decades, many of these peatlands have been...
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Authors
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...