Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Erik Emilson
Isabelle Aubin
The 2 Billion Trees (2BT) program offers a unique opportunity to reduce net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while simultaneously ensuring co-benefits to water quality and aquatic ecosystem health. The...
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Kelly Hokanson
Paul Moore
Max Lukenbach
Kevin Devito
Nicholas Kettridge
Richard Petrone
Carl Mendoza
James Waddington
Resource Date:
January
2018
Northern peatlands are important global carbon stores, but there is concern that these boreal peat reserves are at risk due to increased fire frequency and severity as predicted by climate change...
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Mir Mustafizur Rahman
Gregory McDermid
Maria Strack
Julie Lovitt
Resource Date:
October
2017
Groundwater level (GWL) and depth to water (DTW) are related metrics aimed at characterizing groundwater-table positions in peatlands, and two of the most common variables collected by researchers...
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François-Nicolas Robinne
Kevin Bladon
Uldis Silins
Monica Emelko
Mike Flannigan
Marc-André Parisien
Xianli Wang
Stefan Kienzle
Diane Dupont
Resource Date:
April
2019
Recent human-interface wildfires around the world have raised concerns regarding the reliability of freshwater supply flowing from severely burned watersheds. Degraded source water quality can often...
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William Quinton
Aaron Berg
Michael Braverman
Olivia Carpino
Laura Chasmer
Ryan Connon
James Craig
Elise Devoie
Masaki Hayashi
Kristine Haynes
David Olefeldt
Alain Pietroniro
Fereidoun Rezanezhad
Robert Schincariol
Oliver Sonnentag
Resource Date:
August
2018
Scotty Creek, Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada, has been the focus of eco-hydrological research for nearly three decades. Over this period, field and modelling studies have generated new insights...
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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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Amanda Schoonmaker
Jean-Marie Sobze
Erin Fraser
Eckehart Marenholtz
Ann Smreciu
Chris Powter
Marshall Mckenzie
The purpose of this document is to review traditional and alternative systems of seed and nursery stock treatment and delivery for use in oil sands reclamation. Treatment systems are considered those...
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This report identifies historical, annual and open water, low flow sequences for 13 stations in the Athabasca River Basin which can be used to determine management guidelines for the River basin
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Aneta Spyra
Anna Cieplok
Mariola Krodkiewska
Beaver-created ponds constitute an important element of small water retention in forest catchments and preserving biodiversity as breeding sites for vertebrates and invertebrates. In many areas, these...
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NAIT Centre for Boreal Research
The Decision Support Systems (DSS) uses a scenario approach to guiding reclamation and restoration activities. This resource follows the Landscape Treatment Process for Forest Land (Upland). DSS are...
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Jason Clark
Ken Tape
Latha Baskaran
Clayton Elder
Charles Miller
Kimberley Miner
Jonathan O'Donnell
Benjamin Jones
Beaver engineering in the Arctic tundra induces hydrologic and geomorphic changes that are favorable to methane (CH 4) production. Beaver-mediated methane emissions are driven by inundation of...
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The Emend for Schools: 360° Video EMEND Tour Teachers Resource is a full lesson plan and 360 immersive and interactive video teaching tool, including a teacher lesson plan and student workbook aligned...
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Ellie Goud
Sabrina Touchette
Ian Strachan
Maria Strack
One metric of peatland restoration success is the re-establishment of a carbon sink, yet considerable uncertainty remains around the timescale of carbon sink trajectories. Conditions post-restoration...
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Resource Date:
December
2018
This practitioner guide provides a user-friendly overview of the interactions between boreal wetlands and forests and what these interactions mean for forest managers working in Canada’s boreal.
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Resource Date:
December
2018
This technical report describes in detail the interactions between boreal wetlands and forests and how forest managers can use this information to help avoid or minimize adverse effects on wetlands.
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Roderick Allan
Togwell Jackson
Dredged sediments and sediment cores were collected from sites along the Athabasca River system from between Fort McMurray and the confluence of Riviere des Rochers with the Slave River
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Manuel Helbig
James Waddington
Pavel Alekseychik
Brian Amiro
Mika Aurela
Alan Barr
Andrew Black
Peter Blanken
Sean Carey
Jiquan Chen
Jinshu Chi
Ankur Desai
Allison Dunn
Eugenie Euskirchen
Lawrence Flanagan
Inke Forbrich
Thomas Friborg
Achim Grelle
Silvie Harder
Michal Heliasz
Elyn Humphreys
Hiroki Lkawa
Pierre-Erik Isabelle
Hiroki Iwata
Rachhpal Jassal
Mika Korkiakoski
Juliya Kurbatova
Lars Kutzbach
Anders Lindroth
Mikaell Ottosson Lofvenius
Annalea Lohila
Ivan Mammarella
Philip Marsh
Trofim Maximov
Joe Melton
Paul Moore
Daniel Nadeau
Erin Nicholls
Mats Nilsson
Takeshi Ohta
Matthias Peichl
Richard Petrone
Roman Petrov
Anatoly Prokushkin
William Quinton
David Reed
Nigel Roulet
Benjamin Runkle
Oliver Sonnentag
Ian Stachan
Pierre Taillardat
Eeva-Stiina Tuittila
Juha-Pekka Tuovinen
Jessica Turner
Masahito Ueyama
Andrej Varlagin
Martin Wilmking
Steven Wofsy
Vyacheslav Zyianov
The response of evapotranspiration (ET) to warming is of critical importance to the water and carbon cycle of the boreal biome, a mosaic of land cover types dominated by forests and peatlands. The...
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David Schindler
R. Wagemann
R.H. Hesslein
Objectives were addressed in a whole lake experiment at the Experimental Lakes Area in northwestern Ontario because of the experimental control that could be effected at the facilities
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Aneta Bieniada
Laura Hug
Christopher Parsons
Maria Strack
The microbial community in peat is responsible for organic matter degradation and greenhouse gas emissions, yet its response to peat extraction and peatland restoration remains poorly understood. We...
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Mighty Peace Watershed Alliance
The Mighty Peace Watershed Alliance (MPWA) supports the three goals of Alberta’s Water for Life Strategy: safe secure drinking water, healthy aquatic ecosystems, and reliable, quality water supplies...