Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Authors
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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Authors
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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Authors
C.E. Smyth
A.J. Dugan
M. Olguin
R.A. Birdsey
C. Wayson
A. Alanís
W.A. Kurz
Managing forests and forest products to help mitigate climate change was quantified in three coordinated studies involving six regions within North America. Each country-specific study examined...
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Resource Date:
December
2019
Aboveground plants provide resources to the belowground microbial community via plant litter and, in turn, the belowground microbial community provides nutrients for plant uptake, linking the two...
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Claire Depardieu
Martin Girardin
Simon Nadeau
Patrick Lenz
Jean Bousquet
Nathalie Isabel
Drought intensity and frequency are increasing under global warming, with soil water availability now being a major factor limiting tree growth in circumboreal forests. Still, the adaptive capacity of...
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Authors
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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Authors
Martin Girardin
Nathalie Isabel
Xiao Jing Guo
Manuel Lamothe
Isabelle Duchesne
Patrick Lenz
Assisted gene flow between populations has been proposed as an adaptive forest management strategy that could contribute to the sequestration of carbon. Here we provide an assessment of the mitigation...
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Tyler Searls
X. Zhu
D.W. McKenney
R. Mazumder
J. Steenberg
G. Yan
F.-R. Meng
Climate has a considerable influence on tree growth. Forest managers benefit from the empirical study of the historic relationship between climatic variables and tree growth to support forest...
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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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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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Authors
V.F. Haavisto
J.W. Fraser
C.R. Mattice
Viability of black spruce ( Picea mariana [Mill.] B.S.P.) seeds after dispersal in nature or by man may be a crucial factor affecting regeneration of the species on boreal forest seedbeds. Some...
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The boreal mixedwood forest ecosystem includes both coniferous and deciduous tree species and is a common and widespread ecosystem in the Canadian boreal forest resulting from harvesting, forest fires...
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Charles Marty
Joanie Piquette
Émilie Dussault-Chouinard
Hubert Morin
Nelson Thiffault
Daniel Houle
Robert Bradley
Rock Ouimet
Myrna Simpson
Maxime Paré
The increase in soil organic matter mineralization rate in boreal forests that may result from global warming is a major concern as it could release large amounts of C to the atmosphere. On the other...
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Authors
Mathieu Leblond
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
Steeve Côté
Background: Freshwater lakes and rivers of the Northern Hemisphere have been freezing increasingly later and thawing increasingly earlier during the last century. With reduced temporal periods during...
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Authors
Lauren Thompson
McKenzie Kuhn
Johanna Winder
Lucas Braga
Ryan Hutchins
Andrew Tanentzap
Vincent St. Louis
David Olefeldt
Resource Date:
January
2023
Permafrost thaw may increase the production of neurotoxic methylmercury (MeHg) in northern peatlands, but the downstream delivery of MeHg is uncertain. We quantified total mercury (THg) and MeHg...
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Between 1960 and 1966, 21 planting and 14 seeding trials were established to convert aspen stands to spruce-aspen mixedwoods in three Manitoba Forest Management Sections. Scalped strips, varying in...
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Authors
Hui Zhang
Minna Väliranta
Sanna Piilo
Matthew Amesbury
Marco Aquino‐López
Thomas Roland
Susanna Salminen‐Paatero
Jussi Paatero
Annalea Lohila
Eeva‐Stiina Tuittila
Resource Date:
January
2020
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
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Globally, forests play a significant natural role, as they absorb and sequestrate carbon that would otherwise end up in the atmosphere. This carbon sequestration mitigates the phenomenon commonly...
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Authors
Martin LeClerc
Mathieu Leblond
Christian Dussault
Mael Le Corre
Steeve Côté
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
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The primary goal of this study was to develop a climate-sensitive modular-based structural stand density management model for red pine plantations situated within central North America. For a given...