Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Tanya Richens
Steve Tuttle
CEMA, a multi-stakeholder organisation advising the provincial and federal governments, is committed to respectful, inclusive dialogue to make recommendations for cumulative effects management
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Laura Neary
Casey Remmer
Jadine Krist
Brent Wolfe
Roland Hall
Recent drawdown of the delta’s abundant shallow lakes and rivers has deteriorated vital habitat for wildlife and impaired navigation routes. Here, we report continuous measurements at ~50 lakes during...
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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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Peter Nix
Jill Costerton
R. Ventullo
R.T. Coutts
A literature review and evaluation of methods used to determine rates of bacterial uptake (heterotrophic assimilation) of organic substrates in fresh water systems was undertaken
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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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Peter McCart
D.W. Mayhood
An aquatic biomonitoring program must be implemented to ensure that measures taken to protect the water systems are working, so that improvements may be made if need be.
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Chunjing Qiu
Philippe Ciais
Dan Zhu
Bertrand Guenet
Jinfeng Chang
Nitin Chaudhary
Thomas Kleinen
XinYu Li
Jurek Müller
Yi Xi
Wenxin Zhang
Ashley Ballantyne
Simon Brewer
Victor Brovkin
Dan Charman
Adrian Gustafson
Angela Gallego-Sala
Thomas Gasser
Joseph Holden
Fortunat Joos
Min Jung Kwon
Ronny Lauerwald
Paul Miller
Shushi Peng
Susan Page
Benjamin Smith
Benjamin Stocker
Britta Sannel
Elodie Salmon
Guy Schurgers
Narasinha Shurpali
David Wårlind
Sebastian Westermann
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January
2022
Northern peatlands store 300–600 Pg C, of which approximately half are underlain by permafrost. Climate warming and, in some regions, soil drying from enhanced evaporation are progressively...
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R.L. & L. Environmental Services Ltd.
A.A. Aquatic Research Ltd.
Characterize and re-define aquatic habitats. Aquatic habitat, water quality, flora, and fauna of the aquatic systems in the development area are typical of those found in the oil sands region
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Philip Tsui
Derek Tripp
William Grant
describe existing environmental conditions in, and to document natural biological colonization of, the West Interceptor Ditch and determine the degree of biological colonization of lower Beaver Creek
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In 1980, the tailings pond was a highly stratified waterbody with a low density, well mixed surface zone (0-6 m) overlying a high density deep water zone (>10 m) where mixing is slow
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Daphne Cheel
Stephen Moran
Mark Trudell
Don Thacker
Terry Macyk
Report synthesizes and summarizes 36 RRTAC reports to provide the user with a unified source of information on land and groundwater reclamation research in the plains of Alberta
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Andrew Lutz
Marilyn Hendzel
Analyses are given for up to 12 metals and 4 pesticides with PCBs, of aquatic environment from 15 sites along or near the Athabasca River from Fort McMurray north to the confluence of the Peace River
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Data on regional water quality, hydrology, physical and chemical limnology, and fisheries resources of the lakes and streams within the AOSERP area. Extensive bibliography of the pertinent literature
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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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Resource Date:
January
2016
This talk explores what needs to inform road construction decisions, including evaluating where roads should be built and what practices should be used based on peat conditions.
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Natasa Popovic
Richard Petrone
Adam Green
Myroslava Khomik
Jonathan Price
AOSR pre-disturbance landscape consists of a mosaic of upland-peatland complexes, dominated by fens, which have become the focus of recent mandatory reclamation efforts. Quantifiable metrics for...
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Jeffrey Green
Timothy Egmond
Caroline Wylie
Ian Jones
Len Knapik
Lawrence Paterson
Important considerations in reclamation planning and methods for reclamation are described for: agriculture, forestry, wildlife habitat, fish habitat, recreation, and residential/industrial use
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Government of New Brunswick, Department of Environment and Local Government
In New Brunswick we are fortunate to have a plentiful supply of good quality water available to use and enjoy, but this is not something that should be taken for granted. This strategy has been...
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Colonization of limestone bricks and bitumen coated limestone bricks by benthic river organisms was followed over time.
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Our results indicate water depth, surrounding agriculture footprint, and amount of precipitation received all significantly influence the water quality of prairie wetlands in Alberta.