Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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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
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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Xiaoyu Li
Julie Talbot
James King
Meng Wang
Resource Date:
October
2023
Dust deposition can fertilize nutrient-limited peatlands and affect their plant assemblages and ecosystem functions, but the effects of local road dust on peatlands have seldom been studied. Here, we...
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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...
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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
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Our Nature talk on Tuesday, July 4th, featured Rachel Kendall and her work surrounding the forested wetlands of Nova Scotia. Rachel loves exploring and gaining new understandings of how plants, soil...
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Nature-based Solutions leverage nature and the power of healthy ecosystems to protect people, optimise infrastructure and safeguard a stable and biodiverse future. Explore topics related to Nature...
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Wetland Knowledge Exchange
Resource Date:
November
2023
Cassandra Chabot-Madlung, County of Grande Prairie presents - Wetland Replacement Program: How it Started & Who Can Participate This is a Municipal viewpoint of Alberta Environment and Protected Areas...
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Camille Defrenne
Jessica Moore
Colin Tucker
Louis Lamit
Evan Kane
Randall Kolka
Rodney Chimner
Jason Keller
Erik Lilleskov
Drainage-induced encroachment by trees may have major effects on the carbon balance of northern peatlands, and responses of microbial communities are likely to play a central mechanistic role. We...
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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
Resource Date:
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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Sheel Bansal
Irena Creed
Brian Tangen
Scott Bridgham
Ankur Desai
Ken Krauss
Scott Neubauer
Gregory Noe
Donald Rosenberry
Carl Trettin
Kimberly Wickland
Scott Allen
Ariane Arias‑Ortiz
Anna Armitage
Dennis Baldocchi
Kakoli Banerjee
David Bastviken
Peter Berg
Matthew Bogard
Alex Chow
William Conner
Christopher Craft
Courtney Creamer
Tonya DelSontro
Jamie Duberstein
Meagan Eagle
Siobhan Fennessy
Sarah Finkelstein
Mathias Göckede
Sabine Grunwald
Meghan Halabisky
Ellen Herbert
Mohammad Jahangir
Olivia Johnson
Miriam Jones
Jefrey Kelleway
Sara Knox
Kevin Kroeger
Kevin Kuehn
David Lobb
Amanda Loder
Shizhou Ma
Damien Maher
Gavin McNicol
Jacob Meier
Beth Middleton
Christopher Mills
Purbasha Mistry
Abhijit Mitra
Courtney Mobilian
Charles Schutte
Changchun Song
Camille Stagg
Jessica Turner
Rodrigo Vargas
Mark Waldrop
Marcus Wallin
Zhaohui Aleck Wang
Eric Ward
Debra Willard
Stephanie Yarwood
Xiaoyan Zhu
Wetlands cover a small portion of the world, but have disproportionate influence on global carbon (C) sequestration, carbon dioxide and methane emissions, and aquatic C fluxes. However, the underlying...
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Emily Ury
Puvaanah Arrumugam
Ellen Herbert
Pascal Badiou
Bryan Page
Nandita Basu
Resource Date:
April
2023
Wetland restoration is a popular nutrient management strategy for improving water quality in agricultural catchments. However, a wetland’s ability to retain phosphorus is highly variable and wetlands...
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Nia Perron
Jennifer Baltzer
Oliver Sonnentag
Transpiration is a globally important component of evapotranspiration. Careful upscaling of transpiration from point measurements is thus crucial for quantifying water and energy fluxes. In spatially...
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The United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021–2030 (hereafter “UN Decade”) recognizes the critical need to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of the world’s ecosystems. Effective...
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Teemu Juselius-Rajamäki
Minna Väliranta
Atte Korhola
Resource Date:
October
2023
Peatlands are the most dense terrestrial carbon stock and since the last glacial epoch northern peatlands have accumulated between 400 and 1000 Gt of carbon. Although the horizontal development...
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Dale Vitt
Melissa House
Lilyan Glaeser
Minerogenous peatlands that accumulate deep deposits of organic matter (fens) were an important part of the pre-disturbance landscape across Alberta’s oil sands mining area. Bryophytes occupy 80–100%...