Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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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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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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W.J. Beese
B.A. Blackwell
R.N. Green
B.C. Hawkes
Prescribed burning is widely used as a forest management tool; however, its long-term impacts on site productivity must be better understood to meet planned burn objectives. MacMillan Bloedel (now...
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This project is a part of the Government of Canada’s initiative for monitoring and assessing regional cumulative effects, a recently added requirement to the new Impact Assessment Act (2019). Among...
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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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Patricio Pacheco-Cancino
Rubén Carrillo-López
Armando Sepulveda-Jauregui
Marcelo Somos-Valenzuela
Mosses of the genus Sphagnum are the dominant vegetation in most pristine peatlands in temperate and high-latitude regions. They play a crucial role in carbon sequestration, being responsible for ca...
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Northern peatlands are significant contributors to global biogeochemical cycles. In Canada alone, peatlands cover over a tenth of the land surface and store over half of the country’s terrestrial...
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Alex Horne
Marc Beutel
Greg Woodside
Nitrate pollution of surface water from farms and urban runoff is widespread – impairing drinking water supplies, recreation, and wildlife habitat. The scale of the problem in rivers has overwhelmed...
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Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers
Marcel Kok
Over fifty years of global conservation has failed to bend the curve of biodiversity loss, so we need to transform the ways we govern biodiversity. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity aims to...
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Wendy MacKeigan
Alex Mifflin
Tyler Mifflin
Samantha Blake
Jacob Thompson
Nick Koro
Resource Date:
November
2023
Wetlands are the most diverse and ecologically important ecosystems in Ontario. They help purify water, control floods, reduce erosion and fight climate change. They provide critical habitat for...
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The February 2020 Wetland Best Management Practice Knowledge Exchange webinar. Dr. Cherie Westbrook with the University of Saskatchewan discussed the role and importance of beavers as ecosystem...
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March
2021
Rapid functional assessment tools like WESP (Wetland Ecosystem Services Protocol) give the ability to quantify several wetland functions and benefits, such as water storage, carbon sequestration and...
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Our Nature talk on Tuesday, July 4th, featured Rachel Kendall and her work surrounding the forested wetlands of Nova Scotia. Rachel loves exploring and gaining new understandings of how plants, soil...
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Presented by Dr Scott J Davidson, Lecturer in Ecosystem Resilience, University of Plymouth Swamps are a highly significant wetland type in North America both in terms of areal extent and their role in...
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Resource Date:
September
2023
Recovery and Resistance: Restoring the wetland plant community after invasive reed control Presenter: Dr. Rebecca Rooney, University of Waterloo For established invasions, like European common reed...
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Resource Date:
January
2019
This presentation highlights the value of wetlands to forest management and the role wetlands play in sustaining healthy forested ecosystems.
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In January 2016, Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) hosted a two-day Wetlands Best Management Practices (BMP) Workshop. The workshop focused on collaborative engagement with participants to discuss planning...
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The Forest Management and Wetland Stewardship Initiative
This practitioner guide is a user-friendly compilation of wetland best management practices that can be applied to incorporate wetland stewardship into forestry planning and operations.
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Bev Gingras
Jules Lebeouf
Kylie McLeod
Leanne Mingo
These proceedings describe the findings of the Wetland Best Management Practices (BMPs) Workshop held on January 20th & 21st 2016 in Edmonton, Alberta hosted by Ducks Unlimited Canada.
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Resource Date:
August
2023
The Wetland Knowledge Exchange releases monthly newsletters that highlight new research, publications, news, interesting facts, events and more. In our August issue of the Wetland Knowledge Exchange...