Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Jian Zhang
Scott Nielsen
Jessica Stolar
Youhua Chen
Wilfried Thuiller
We found that 368 species (24%) may lose on average > 80% of their current suitable climates (habitats), while 539 species (35%) were projected to more than double their current suitable range
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Julie Godbout
Marie-Claude Gros-Louis
Manuel Lamothe
Nathalie Isabel
The speed and magnitude of global change will have major impacts on riparian ecosystems, thereby leading to greater forest vulnerability. Assessing species’ adaptive capacities to provide relevant...
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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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Dominique Boucher
Sylvie Gauthier
Nelson Thiffault
William Marchand
Martin Girardin
Climate change is projected to increase fire severity and frequency in the boreal forest, but it could also directly affect post-fire recruitment processes by impacting seed production, germination...
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Jay Woosaree
Rafael Otfinowski
Restoration of grassland ecosystems is critical to the provision of ecosystem services, however, legacies of historic disturbances pose a challenge to grassland restoration. In the northern Great...
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Eric Post
Christian Pedersen
David Watts
Ecological rarity, characterized by low abundance or limited distribution, is typical of most species, yet our understanding of what factors contribute to the persistence of rare species remains...
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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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Tyler Rudolph
Doug MacNearney
Laura Finnegan
Resource Date:
October
2019
Abstract The gap between research and its implementation is an impediment to conservation of the environment. Translating science into actionable management and policy requires effective communication...
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Budiman Minasny
Diana Vigah Adetsu
Matt Aitkenhead
Rebekka Artz
Nikki Baggaley
Alexandra Barthelmes
Amélie Beucher
Jean Caron
Giulia Conchedda
John Connolly
Raphaël Deragon
Chris Evans
Kjetil Fadnes
Dian Fiantis
Zisis Gagkas
Louis Gilet
Alessandro Gimona
Stephan Glatzel
Mogens Greve
Wahaj Habib
Kristell Hergoualc’h
Cecilie Hermansen
Darren Kidd
Triven Koganti
Dianna Kopansky
David Large
Tuula Larmola
Allan Lilly
Haojie Liu
Matthew Marcus
Maarit Middleton
Keith Morrison
Rasmus Jes Petersen
Tristan Quaife
Line Rochefort
Rudiyanto
Linda Toca
Francesco Tubiello
Peter Lystbæk Weber
Simon Weldon
Wirastuti Widyatmanti
Jenny Williamson
Dominik Zak
Peatlands cover only 3–4% of the Earth’s surface, but they store nearly 30% of global soil carbon stock. This significant carbon store is under threat as peatlands continue to be degraded at alarming...
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Back Ersson
Tiina Laine
Timo Saksa
In Fennoscandia, mechanized tree planting is time-efficient and produces high-quality regeneration. However, because of low cost-efficiency, the mechanization of Fennoscandian tree planting has been...
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Jessica Allan
Mélina Guêné-Nanchen
Line Rochefort
David Douglas
Jan Axmacher
Resource Date:
October
2023
Abstract The provision of critical ecosystem services like carbon sequestration by peatlands has been degraded around the globe. Peatland restoration represents an opportunity to tackle the twin...
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Jack Kruse
Robert White
Howard Epstein
Billy Archie
Matt Berman
Stephen Braund
Stuart Chapin III
Johnny Charlie, Sr.
Colin Daniel
Joan Eamer
Nick Flanders
Brad Griffith
Sharman Haley
Lee Huskey
Bernice Joseph
David Klein
Gary Kofinas
Stephanie Martin
Stephen Murphy
William Nebesky
Craig Nicolson
Don Russell
Joe Tetlichi
Arlon Tussing
Marilyn Walker
Oran Young
Abstract How will climate change affect the sustainability of Arctic villages over the next 40 years? This question motivated a collaboration of 23 researchers and four Arctic communities (Old Crow...
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Patrick Walsh
Trevor Goward
Understanding the recovery rate of overgrazed lichen communities has value to mangers of lands in northern regions. We describe lichen community composition and present recovery rate measurements for...
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Steven Wagers
Guillermo Castilla
Mihai Voicu
Tyler Rea
Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa
Black spruce is the most common tree species in Canada, dominating treed peatlands where they are usually stunted. We used 495 destructively sampled trees from 56 plots to develop allometric models of...
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Hannah Correia
Torkild Tveraa
Audun Stien
Nigel Yoccoz
Global temperatures are increasing, affecting timing and availability of vegetation along with relationships between plants and their consumers. We examined the effect of population density, herd body...
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Camille Defrenne
Jessica Moore
Colin Tucker
Louis Lamit
Evan Kane
Randall Kolka
Rodney Chimner
Jason Keller
Erik Lilleskov
Drainage-induced encroachment by trees may have major effects on the carbon balance of northern peatlands, and responses of microbial communities are likely to play a central mechanistic role. We...
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Naomi Gatis
Pia Benaud
Karen Anderson
Josie Ashe
Emilie Grand-Clement
David Luscombe
Alan Puttock
Richard Brazier
Peatland restoration is experiencing a global upsurge as a tool to protect and provide various ecosystem services. As the range of peatland types being restored diversifies, do previous findings...
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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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Paul Jefferson
Paul McCaughey
Ken May
Jay Woosaree
Linden McFarlane
The utilization of native grass species for potential biomass feedstocks of the emerging ethanol industry requires more information about their cellulose and hemicellulose concentration. Ten native...
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Amir Behzad Bazrgar
Derek Sidders
Naresh Thevathasan
Afforestation systems as a pathway for natural climate solutions contributing to terrestrial C sequestration are influenced by agroclimatic conditions, tree species and clones. This study validated a...