Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Wei-Yew Chang
Chris Gaston
Julie Cool
Barb Thomas
Genomics-assisted tree breeding (GATB) is an emerging biotechnology method that has the potential to produce improved planting stock in selected traits, such as greater volume or higher wood quality...
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Jonathan Price
Owen Sutton
Colin McCarter
William Quinton
James Waddington
Pete Whittington
Maria Strack
Rich Petrone
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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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Barbara Darroch
Surya Acharya
AEC Hillcrest awned slender wheatgrass l Elymus tichycaulus subsp. subsecandus (Link) Gould] is a-reclamation variety developed for use in reclaiming and revegJtating oisturtea sites in the mountains...
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Barbara Darroch
Surya Acharya
Jay Woosaree
AEC Mountaineer broadglumed wheatgrass, Elymus trachycaulus subsp. violaceus (Horneman) A. & D. Love, is a cultivar developed for reclaiming and revegetating disturbed sites at high elevations. It is...
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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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In 2020, the Alberta Water Council (AWC) identified the need to review the implementation of the Alberta Wetland Policy (the policy). This review would support improving and public reporting on the...
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Forest biomass is the second-largest renewable energy resource in Canada, representing a major pool in the global carbon budget, but better estimates of forest biomass are needed. In the 1980s...
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Guilherme Verocai
Manigandan Lejeune
Kimberlee Beckmen
Cyntia Kashivakura
Alasdair Veitch
Richard Popko
Carmen Fuentealba
Eric Hoberg
Susan Kutz
Resource Date:
October
2012
Onchocerca cervipedis is a filarioid nematode of cervids reported from Central America to boreal regions of North America. It is found primarily in subcutaneous tissues of the legs, and is more...
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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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Paul Jefferson
Paul McCaughey
Jay Woosaree
Linden McFarlane
There is renewed interest in re-seeding native grasses in the prairie region of western Canada but there is limited information on their forage quality for fall grazing. We evaluated forage quality in...
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Beavers, Canada's national animal, provide many valuable ecosystem services including storage of water during droughts and flooding, creation of habitat for a variety of species, and improvement of...
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National Tree Seed Centre
This webinar presented by the National Tree Seed Centre explains how to collect seeds from berry producing plants species. NTSC staff demonstrate protocols for handling and processing berries to...
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Resource Date:
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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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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Jessica Hudson
Kimberly Gould
Ann Smreciu
Dani Degenhardt
Beaked hazelnut ( Corylus cornuta Marshall [Betulaceae]) is a characteristic species of some boreal upland plant communities of northeastern Alberta. This shrub is also a desired species for...
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Pedocan Land Evaluation Ltd.
Part 1 of this manual is a background and explanatory section that describes the terminology used in soil surveys and presents the assumptions and conventions upon which the interpretations are based
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Pedocan Land Evaluation Ltd.
Part 2 presents typical data and interpretations for each soil series in Alberta. The interpretations were made by applying the guidelines in Part 1, and checking the results against experience
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Emily Ury
Puvaanah Arrumugam
Ellen Herbert
Pascal Badiou
Bryan Page
Nandita Basu
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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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David Olefeldt
Mikael Hovemyr
McKenzie Kuhn
David Bastviken
Theodore Bohn
John Connolly
Patrick Crill
Eugénie Euskirchen
Sarah Finkelstein
Hélène Genet
Guido Grosse
Lorna Harris
Liam Heffernan
Manuel Helbig
Gustaf Hugelius
Ryan Hutchins
Sari Juutinen
Mark Lara
Avni Malhotra
Kristen Manies
David McGuire
Susan Natali
Jonathan O'Donnell
Frans-Jan Parmentier
Aleksi Räsänen
Christina Schädel
Oliver Sonnentag
Maria Strack
Suzanne Tank
Claire Treat
Ruth Varner
Tarmo Virtanen
Rebecca Warren
Jennifer Watts
Here we present the Boreal–Arctic Wetland and Lake Dataset (BAWLD), a land cover dataset based on an expert assessment, extrapolated using random forest modelling from available spatial datasets of...
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As Canadians, our forests permeate our lives, and Canada’s forest sector is an essential economic engine and major employer of Canadians, including in Indigenous and rural communities. The theme of...