Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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M. L. Hunter
R. J. Frei
I. B. Strachan
M. Strack
The installation of drainage ditches and removal of vegetation in preparation for vacuum harvesting alters the carbon dynamics of peatlands. However, we lack the measurements to understand the spatial...
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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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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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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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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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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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Angelo Filicetti
Jesse Tigner
Scott Nielsen
Katherine Wolfenden
Murdoch Taylor
Paula Benthamd
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November
2023
Seismic lines, linear features originating from the oil and gas industry for energy exploration, pose a substantial management challenge due to their collective impact on biogeochemical cycles, plant...
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Craig Mahoney
Joshua Montgomery
Stephanie Connor
Danielle Cobbaert
Abstract Boreal wetlands within the oil sands region of Alberta, Canada, are subject to natural and anthropogenic pressures, resulting in the need for monitoring these sensitive ecosystems to ensure...
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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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Emily Ury
Puvaanah Arrumugam
Ellen Herbert
Pascal Badiou
Bryan Page
Nandita Basu
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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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Christopher Evans
Vincent Gauci
To reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, conservation and restoration of wetlands play a key role. This report outlines the contribution of wetlands to global methane output; differences between...
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Sophie Wilkinson
Raymond Andersen
Paul Moore
Scott Davidson
Gustaf Granath
Mike Waddington
Resource Date:
April
2023
The northern peatland carbon sink plays a vital role in climate regulation; however, the future of the carbon sink is uncertain, in part, due to the changing interactions of peatlands and wildfire...
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Matthew Elmes
Richard Petrone
Olena Volik
Jonathan Price
Resource Date:
February
2022
Study Region A channel fen in the Athabasca Oil Sands Area, Alberta, Canada Study Focus We assessed the hydrological changes to the hydrology of a moderate-rich fen after the construction of a road...
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Jody Daniel
Rebecca Rooney
Derek Robinson
Resource Date:
March
2022
Wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) are forecast to retract in their ranges due to climate change, and potholes that typically contain ponded water year-round, which support a larger...
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United Nations Environment Programme
Resource Date:
November
2022
Peatlands are unique and rare ecosystems that, despite only covering around 3-4% of the planet’s land surface, they contain up to one-third of the world’s soil carbon, which is twice the amount of...
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Patrick Deane
S. Wilkinson
G. Verkaik
P. Moore
D. Schroeder
J. Waddington
Resource Date:
March
2022
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Manuel Helbig
Tatjana Živković
Pavel Alekseychik
Mika Aurela
Tarek El-Madany
Eugenie Euskirchen
Lawrence Flanagan
Timothy Griffis
Paul Hanson
Juha Hatakka
Carole Helfter
Takashi Hirano
Elyn Humphreys
Ger Kiely
Randy Kolka
Tuomas Laurila
Paul Leahy
Annalea Lohila
Ivan Mammarella
Mats Nilsson
Alexey Panov
Frans-Jan Parmentier
Matthias Peichl
Janne Rinne
Daniel Roman
Oliver Sonnentag
Eeva-Stiina Tuittila
Masahito Ueyama
Timo Vesala
Patrik Vestin
Simon Weldon
Per Weslien
Sönke Zaehle
Resource Date:
August
2022
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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Ellie Goud
Sabrina Touchette
Ian Strachan
Maria Strack
One metric of peatland restoration success is the re-establishment of a carbon sink, yet considerable uncertainty remains around the timescale of carbon sink trajectories. Conditions post-restoration...