Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Jonathan Price
Owen Sutton
Colin McCarter
William Quinton
James Waddington
Pete Whittington
Maria Strack
Rich Petrone
Resource Date:
November
2023
Wetlands are an integral part of the Canadian landscape, providing crucial ecohydrological services with globally significant benefits. Over the past 75 years, Canadian scientists have emerged as...
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The Alberta Wetland Classification System Field Guide is a visual, plain-language field guide for identifying and classifying wetlands based on the Alberta Wetland Classification System (AWCS). The...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
We’re pleased to announce the release of the ABMI Alberta-wide Wetland Inventory—our most up-to-date and high-resolution wetland data yet.
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Resource Date:
August
2021
With the support of Alberta Environment and Parks, the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute has become the trusted source for data about habitat, species, and the human footprint.
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Alberta Environment and Parks
This code of practice regulates wetland restoration and wetland construction activities as defined in the Code by replacing Water Act approval requirements. Wetland restoration is applied to wetlands...
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Jody Daniel
Rebecca Rooney
The hydroperiod (i.e., the length of time ponded water is present) of prairie potholes is sensitive to climate change. Because snowmelt runoff is the largest contributor to ponded water amounts, a...
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Evan DeLancey
Agatha Czekajlo
Lyle Boychuk
Fiona Gregory
Meisam Amani
Brian Brisco
Jahan Kariyeva
Jennifer Hird
Wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) of Canada and the United States represent a unique mapping challenge. They are dynamic both seasonally and year-to-year, are very small, and frequently...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI), InnoTech Alberta, and Ducks Unlimited Canada have partnered on a four-year project to better understand linkages between wetland health and...
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Chris Powter
Richard Dixon
Nicolas Mansuy
Based on 115 respondents, the survey highlights that the R&R economy in Alberta is robust, with 2 056 employees working at least part-time and 1 488 fulltime equivalent positions.
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Camile Sothe
Alemu Gonsamo
Joyce Arabian
James Snider
Resource Date:
August
2021
Canada has extensive forests and peatlands that play key roles in global carbon cycle. Canadian soils and peatlands are assumed to store approximately 20% of the world’s soil carbon stock. However...
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Nature-based Solutions leverage nature and the power of healthy ecosystems to protect people, optimise infrastructure and safeguard a stable and biodiverse future. Explore topics related to Nature...
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September
2023
Although peatlands cover only 3% of the world's land, they store about twice as much carbon as in the biomass of all the world's forests combined. Thus, they are incredibly important especially for...
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Marie-Claude Roy
Ermias Azeria
David Locky
John Gibson
The analysis of functional trait-habitat relationships has been used to measure the degree to which environmental factors influence the assembly of ecological communities. In the Parkland and...
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Seventy-eight reclamation practitioners from government, industry, consulting, academia, and the services sector gathered in Edmonton on March 6, 2024, to highlight and discuss specific issues facing...
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Emily Ury
Puvaanah Arrumugam
Ellen Herbert
Pascal Badiou
Bryan Page
Nandita Basu
Resource Date:
April
2023
Wetland restoration is a popular nutrient management strategy for improving water quality in agricultural catchments. However, a wetland’s ability to retain phosphorus is highly variable and wetlands...
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InnoTech Alberta
University of Alberta
The InnoTech/UofA above ground mesocosm facility enables configurable, innovative approaches for assessing potential environmental and ecological impacts of industrial activities
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Protocols for sampling biotic and abiotic parameters in large lakes, large rivers, wetlands, and streams in Alberta is provided. Estimates of time costs are given.
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The goal of the program is to develop a set of spatially explicit models that can be used to map the supply and economic value ecosystems goods and services
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Ernie Hui gave a keynote address at the CWRA-WPAC joint conference on March 13, 2013. Ernie Hui is the CEO, Environmental Monitoring, for Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development. The...
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Resource Date:
October
2017
This webinar explores the effects of roads built through peatlands with horizontal water flow, including ability to affect local hydrology and thus vegetation composition and structure.