Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Sari Holopainen
Elmo Miettinen
Veli-Matti Väänänen
Petri Nummi
Hannu Pöysä
Wetlands belong to the globally most threatened habitats, and organisms depending on them are of conservation concern. Wetland destruction and quality loss may affect negatively also boreal breeding...
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Mariusz Gałka
Andrei-Cosmin Diaconu
Anna Cwanek
Lars Hedenäs
Klaus-Holger Knorr
Piotr Kołaczek
Edyta Łokas
Milena Obremska
Graeme T. Swindles
Angelica Feurdean
Rapidly increasing temperatures in high-latitude regions are causing major changes in wetland ecosystems. To assess the impact of concomitant hydroclimatic fluctuations, mineral deposition, and...
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Jody Daniel
Rebecca C Rooney
The hydroperiod (i.e., the length of time ponded water is present) of prairie potholes is sensitive to climate change. Because snowmelt runoff is the largest contributor to ponded water amounts, a...
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Katherine M. Standen
Jennifer L. Baltzer
Questions Rapid climate change in northern latitudes is expected to influence plant functional traits of the whole community (community-level traits) through species compositional changes and/or trait...
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Jonas Mortelmans
Anne Felsberg
Gabriëlle De Lannoy
Sander Veraverbeke
Robert Field
Niels Andela
Michel Bechtold
The Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) system, even though originally developed and calibrated for an upland Jack pine forest, is used globally to estimate fire danger for any fire environment. However...
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Wetland Knowledge Exchange
Taking the permafrost’s pulse – Insights from seven years of a simulated permafrost thaw resource pulse. Dr. Catherine Dieleman, University of Guelph Northern peatland soils are important long-term...
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J. D. White
D. Ahrén
L. Ström
J. Kelly
L. Klemedtsson
B. Keane
F. J. W. Parmentier
An increased frequency of droughts due to anthropogenic climate change can lead to considerable stress for soil microorganisms and their functioning within northern peatlands. A better understanding...
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Seventy-eight reclamation practitioners from government, industry, consulting, academia, and the services sector gathered in Edmonton on March 6, 2024, to highlight and discuss specific issues facing...
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K Best
D Zona
E Briant
Chun-Ta Lai
D A Lipson
K R McEwing
S J Davidson
W C Oeche
Significant uncertainties persist concerning how Arctic soil tundra carbon emission responds to environmental changes. In this study, 24 cores were sampled from drier (high centre polygons and rims)...
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Stephanie Bascu
Christopher Spence
Wetlands that occupy topographic depressions are a defining feature of the Canadian Prairie. These features control hydrological connectivity as they contain high storage capacity relative to...
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GRID-Arendal
Levi Westerveld
Tiina Kurvits
T. Schoolmeester
Oda Mulelid
Torjus Eckhoff
Pier Overduin
Michael Fritz
Hugues Lantuit
Björn Alfthan
A. Sinisalo
Frederieke Miesner
L.-K. Viitanen
NUNATARYUK Consortium
Resource Date:
October
2023
This atlas is an attempt to translate and consolidate the available knowledge on permafrost. It is a timely book suffused with the compelling enthusiasm of its authors and contributors. Close to a...
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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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Nicholas O. E. Ofiti
Michael W. I. Schmidt
Samuel Abiven
Paul J. Hanson
Colleen M. Iversen
Rachel M. Wilson
Joel E. Kostka
Guido L. B. Wiesenberg
Avni Malhotra
Peatlands are an important carbon (C) reservoir storing one-third of global soil organic carbon (SOC), but little is known about the fate of these C stocks under climate change. Here, we examine the...
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Lauren Thompson
M. Low
C. Schulze
M. Simba
R. Shewan
O. Sonnentag
S.E. Tank
D. Olefeldt
Boreal rivers deliver dissolved organic carbon (DOC), mercury (Hg), and its neurotoxic form, methylmercury (MeHg), from contributing landscapes to downstream waters. In northern regions, thawing...
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Daniel Miller
Ivan Scales
Michael Mascia
Resource Date:
January
2023
DESCRIPTION Groundbreaking book that examines the essential contribution of the social sciences to understanding and conserving biodiversity across the globe Authored by leading scholars at the nexus...
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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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Nirmela Govinda
Peter Groffman
Sarah Durand
Chester Zarnoch
Willis Elkins
Denitrification, the anaerobic microbial conversion of nitrate (NO 3 −), a common water pollutant, to nitrogen (N) gases, is often high in the soil of natural wetlands. In areas where natural wetlands...
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Jason Clark
Ken Tape
Latha Baskaran
Clayton Elder
Charles Miller
Kimberley Miner
Jonathan O'Donnell
Benjamin Jones
Beaver engineering in the Arctic tundra induces hydrologic and geomorphic changes that are favorable to methane (CH 4) production. Beaver-mediated methane emissions are driven by inundation of...
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Ashlee Dawn Mombourquette
Wetlands comprise 65% of the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) surface mineable area and thus support diverse flora (approximately 400 species in Alberta). Due to increased anthropogenic land...
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Sini-Selina Salko
Jussi Juola
Iuliia Burdun
Harri Vasander
Miina Rautiainen
Boreal peatlands store ~25 % of global soil organic carbon and host many endangered species; however, they face degradation due to climate change and anthropogenic drainage. In boreal peatlands...