Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Royal Alberta Museum
Alberta Science Network
An introduction to Alberta's wetland classifications and biodiversity, created for Alberta Science Network classroom presentations. A wetland is a part of the land that holds water temporarily or...
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Alberta NAWMP Partnership
The Landowner Guide to the Alberta Wetland Policy helps landowners understand their rights and responsibilities when working in and around wetlands on their farm or ranch under Alberta’s Wetland...
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Northern peatlands are significant contributors to global biogeochemical cycles. In Canada alone, peatlands cover over a tenth of the land surface and store over half of the country’s terrestrial...
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The Alberta Wetland Classification System Field Guide is a visual, plain-language field guide for identifying and classifying wetlands based on the Alberta Wetland Classification System (AWCS). The...
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Resource Date:
December
2021
This Briefing Note presents key information on practical peatland rewetting and restoration on site. It formulates general guiding principles applicable to all peatland restoration practices and...
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Mountain valley bottom peatlands are poorly studied systems, particularly in Alberta, Canada, where the provincial inventory has neither mapped nor characterized them. Nonetheless, these ecosystems...
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Wetland loss in southern Ontario, escalated by development, is putting pressure on planners as they struggle to meet development needs while maintaining a balance with regional natural heritage...
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Jamie Fenneman
Ryan Durand
Alice Lee
The Wetland Plants of British Columbia is an introduction to the common indicator wetlands species that are used to classify ecosystems using the provincial Biogeoclimatic Ecosystem Classification...
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Resource Date:
December
2019
Aboveground plants provide resources to the belowground microbial community via plant litter and, in turn, the belowground microbial community provides nutrients for plant uptake, linking the two...
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Ryan O’Neill
Jean-Marie Sobze
Catherine Brown
Reed grass (Phragmites australis) is a 1.5 to 5 m tall perennial grass commonly found in riparian areas and along the edges of wetlands. The species establishes quickly over disturbed landscapes and...
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Exploration of resources creates numerous temporary access features, including seismic lines, winter roads, and oil sands exploration wells in boreal peatlands. Although construction is usually...
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Ten years after restoration was implemented at the Bois-des-Bel peatland (BdB) in Quebec, there was limited hydrological connectivity between the regenerated Sphagnum moss and the remnant cutover peat...
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Ten years after restoration was implemented at the Bois-des-Bel peatland (BdB) in Quebec, there was limited hydrological connectivity between the regenerated Sphagnum moss and the remnant cutover peat...
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The Forest Management and Wetland Stewardship Initiative
This practitioner guide is a user-friendly compilation of wetland best management practices that can be applied to incorporate wetland stewardship into forestry planning and operations.
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Over 500,000 oil and gas wells have been drilled in Alberta. Recently updated peatland restoration criteria for well-pads creates incentive for peatland restoration, but little is known about...
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Saline boreal fens represent potential models for post-mining landscape reclamation in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) (Canada) where wetland construction is challenged by salinization. One of...
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This plain language operational field guide helps resource managers identify wetlands in the field. It includes five major wetlands classes and 19 minor classes. Project partners include Ducks...
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Resource Date:
January
2018
The Guide to Watershed Management Planning in Alberta provides advice on the steps to develop and implement a watershed management plan.
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Resource Date:
December
2018
This practitioner guide provides a user-friendly overview of the interactions between boreal wetlands and forests and what these interactions mean for forest managers working in Canada’s boreal.
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Alexander Jonathan Frederick Mertens
Shallow lakes are highly abundant in the Canadian Western Boreal Forest (WBF) and provide essential ecosystem functions, water resources, sources of biodiversity and anthropogenic values. Increasing...