Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Humaira Enayetullah
Laura Chasmer
Chris Hopkinson
Daniel Thompson
Danielle Cobbaert
Seismic lines are the dominant anthropogenic disturbance in the boreal forest of the Canadian province of Alberta, fragmenting over 1900 km 2 of peatland areas and accounting for more than 80% of all...
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Jessica Allan
Mélina Guêné-Nanchen
Line Rochefort
David Douglas
Jan Axmacher
Resource Date:
October
2023
Abstract The provision of critical ecosystem services like carbon sequestration by peatlands has been degraded around the globe. Peatland restoration represents an opportunity to tackle the twin...
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Aneta Bieniada
Laura Hug
Christopher Parsons
Maria Strack
The microbial community in peat is responsible for organic matter degradation and greenhouse gas emissions, yet its response to peat extraction and peatland restoration remains poorly understood. We...
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Masahito Ueyama
Sara Knox
Kyle Delwiche
Sheel Bansal
William Riley
Dennis Baldocchi
Takashi Hirano
Gavin McNicol
Karina Schafer
Lisamarie Windham-Myers
Benjamin Poulter
Robert Jackson
Kuang-Yu Chang
Jiquen Chen
Housen Chu
Ankur Desai
Sébastien Gogo
Hiroki Iwata
Minseok Kang
Ivan Mammarella
Matthias Peichl
Oliver Sonnentag
Eeva-Stiina Tuittila
Youngryel Ryu
Eugénie Euskirchen
Mathias Göckede
Adrien Jacotot
Mats Nilsson
Torsten Sachs
Resource Date:
January
2023
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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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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Lorna Harris
David Olefeldt
Nicolas Pelletier
Christian Blodau
Klaus-Holger Knorr
Julie Talbot
Liam Heffernan
Merritt Turetsky
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August
2023
Rapid, ongoing permafrost thaw of peatlands in the discontinuous permafrost zone is exposing a globally significant store of soil carbon (C) to microbial processes. Mineralization and release of this...
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Wendy MacKeigan
Alex Mifflin
Tyler Mifflin
Samantha Blake
Jacob Thompson
Nick Koro
Resource Date:
November
2023
Canada's Boreal Forest is the largest intact terrestrial, ecosystem remaining on Earth. It is an irreplaceable stronghold of nature that benefits every corner of the planet, whether through its...
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Norman Allard Jr.
Tom Biebighauser
Resource Date:
February
2023
I am pleased to share the full short film The Wetlands. In 2017 Lower Kootenay Band began planning the restoration of a number of wetland impoundments created in the late 1960's to mid 1980's. Due to...
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Nadine Taube
Brandi Newton
Rocky Mountain headwaters are a critical source of water for major watersheds in Alberta. For example, the combined contribution of mountain headwaters supplies 99% of the annual volume of the South...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
The Wetland Atlas describes the distribution of wetlands in Alberta and summarizes human footprint around open water wetlands. Also included are research spotlights on wetland biodiversity including...
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Wetland Knowledge Exchange
Resource Date:
April
2023
The Wetland Knowledge Exchange releases monthly newsletters that highlight new research, publications, news, interesting facts, events and more. In this edition you will learn about: The Wetlands, a...
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The Wetland Knowledge Exchange releases monthly newsletters that highlight new research, publications, news, interesting facts, events and more. In our July issue of the Wetland Knowledge Exchange...
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Resource Date:
November
2023
The Wetland Knowledge Exchange releases monthly newsletters that highlight new research, publications, news, interesting facts, events and more. In this edition you will learn about: The Arctic...