Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Holly Kinas
Kerri O'Shaughnessy
Amy Mcleod
The work of beavers supports watershed and ecological health across the landscape. Many of the benefits beavers provide directly benefit humans: attenuate flood peaks, store water during droughts...
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Boreal peatland restoration through partial removal of an oil and gas well pad Murdoch McKinnon, University of Waterloo Peatlands cover over 30% of the landscape on Canada’s Western Boreal Plains...
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A resource to improve understanding of wetlands in the Bow River region to promote conservation through protection and restoration. Wetlands are natural assets that have a vital role in climate change...
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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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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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Colin McCarter
Stephen Kaufman
Brian Branfireun
James Waddington
Despite their importance in carbon cycling and catchment runoff dynamics, the hydrology of temperate peat swamps in response to changing hydrometeorological conditions is largely understudied. We...
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Joshua F. Dean
Michael F. Billett
T. Edward Turner
Mark H. Garnett
Roxane Andersen
Rebecca M. McKenzie
Kerry J. Dinsmore
Andy J. Baird
Pippa J. Chapman
Joseph Holden
Peatlands are globally important stores of soil carbon (C) formed over millennial timescales but are at risk of destabilization by human and climate disturbance. Pools are ubiquitous features of many...
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Jessie Lavallee-Whiffen
Kristyn Mayner
Chantelle Abma
Video series from Ducks Unlimited Canada, discussing the fascinating and ecologically important dynamics of carbon in Canada’s peatlands, and our role in maintaining these crucial ecotypes. Part 1...
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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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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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Ignacio Aguirre
Glynnis Hood
Cherie Westbrook
Beavers ( Castor canadensis and C. fiber) build dams that modify catchment and pond water balances, and it has been suggested that they can be a nature-based solution for reducing flood hydrographs...
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Patricio A. Pacheco-Cancino
Rubén F. Carrillo-López
Armando Sepulveda-Jauregui
Marcelo A. 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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Meredith E. Theus
Nicholas E. Ray
Sheel Bansal
Meredith A. Holgerson
Shallow freshwaters release large amounts of greenhouse gases. These shallow waterbodies are often dominated by submersed plants, yet the role these plants have in affecting greenhouse gas release is...
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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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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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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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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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Jonathan Price
Colin McCarter
William Quinton
Peatlands are wetlands with soil comprised of undecomposed remains of plants that accumulate in such a way that both responds to and controls the flux and storage of surface water and groundwater, as...
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Budiman Minasny
Diana Vigah Adetsu
Matt Aitkenhead
Rebekka R. E. Artz
Nikki Baggaley
Alexandra Barthelmes
Amélie Beucher
Jean Caron
Giulia Conchedda
John Connolly
Raphaël Deragon
Chris Evans
Kjetil Fadnes
Dian Fiantis
Zisis Gagkas
Louis Gilet
Alessandro Gimona
Stephan Glatzel
Mogens H. Greve
Wahaj Habib
Kristell Hergoualc’h
Cecilie Hermansen
Darren B. Kidd
Triven Koganti
Dianna Kopansky
David J. Large
Tuula Larmola
Allan Lilly
Haojie Liu
Matthew Marcus
Maarit Middleton
Keith Morrison
Rasmus Jes Petersen
Tristan Quaife
Line Rochefort
Rudiyanto
Linda Toca
Francesco N. Tubiello
Peter Lystbæk Weber
Simon Weldon
Wirastuti Widyatmanti
Jenny Williamson
Dominik Zak
Peatlands cover only 3–4% of the Earth’s surface, but they store nearly 30% of global soil carbon stock. This significant carbon store is under threat as peatlands continue to be degraded at alarming...
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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...