Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Evan DeLancey
Agatha Czekajlo
Lyle Boychuk
Fiona Gregory
Meisam Amani
Brian Brisco
Jahan Kariyeva
Jennifer Hird
Wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) of Canada and the United States represent a unique mapping challenge. They are dynamic both seasonally and year-to-year, are very small, and frequently...
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Frederick Cheng
Junehyeong Park
Mukesh Kumar
Nandita Basu
Resource Date:
December
2022
Wetlands protect downstream waters by filtering excess nitrogen (N) generated from agricultural and urban activities. Small ephemeral wetlands, also known as geographically isolated wetlands (GIWs)...
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Oona Könönen
Olli Karjalainen
Juha Aalto
Miska Luoto
Jan Hjort
The anthropogenic climate change threatens northern permafrost environments. This compromises the existence of permafrost landforms, such as palsas and peat plateaus, which have been assessed to be...
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Ruth Errington
Ellen Macdonald
Natalka Melnycky
Jagtar Bhatti
Climate warming in the North could lead to lichen decline within critical woodland caribou habitat. We used repeat measurements of sixty-nine plots over ten years (2007–2008 and 2017–2018) to assess...
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Kevin Renkema
Dean MacKenzie
Natalie Shelby‐James
Bin Xu
Chris Powter
The pilot study validated the research questions, sampling design, measurement and data analysis methods developed for a large‐scale study, with some minor amendments.
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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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Jean Birks
John Manchuk
Yi Yi
Cynthia McClain
Michael Moncur
John Gibson
Clayton Deutsch
Emily Taylor
Guy Bayegnak
Groundwater quality data for the AOSR are compiled and interpreted to provide information on regional water quality to inform groundwater monitoring and land use planning. A database of 546 water...
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Jean Birks
John Manchuk
Yi Yi
Cynthia McClain
Michael Moncur
John Gibson
Clayton Deutsch
Emily Taylor
Guy Bayegnak
Groundwater quality data for the AOSR are compiled and interpreted to provide information on regional water quality to inform groundwater monitoring and land use planning. A database of 546 water...
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A primary goal of this Guideline is to emphasize the long-standing preference for reclaiming and restoring public lands to the pre-disturbance land use type.
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Vanessa Caron
M. Henley
Eduard Loos
Kevin Renkema
Dean MacKenzie
Natalie Shelby-James
In 2018, the Petroleum Technology Alliance of Canada (PTAC) initiated a multi-stage project on the reclamation certification process for sites that were constructed using imported mineral soil pads in...
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NWT Cumulative Impact Monitoring Program
Permafrost thaw in peatlands results in changes to vegetation and soil and can affect water resources. This project examined peatlands in the Dehcho region. It was found that peatlands with increased...
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Lucas Deschamps
Vincent Maire
Lin Chen
Daniel Fortier
Gilles Gauthier
Amélie Morneault
Elisabeth Hardy-Lachance
Isabelle Dalcher- Gosselin
François Tanguay
Charles Gignac
Jeffrey McKenzie
Line Rochefort
Esther Lévesque
Resource Date:
November
2022
1. It is of prime importance to understand feedbacks due to the release of carbon (C) stored in permafrost soils (permafrost-climate feedback) and direct impacts of climatic variations on permafrost...
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Ranjeet Nagare
Young-Jin Park
Rob Wirtz
Dallas Heisler
Glen Miller
The upland and wetlands substrate in reclaimed oil sands landforms will be constructed of post-mining materials with an objective of replicating the landscape and hydrology of the surrounding boreal...
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Resource Date:
April
2022
Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability The Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report assesses the impacts of climate change, looking at ecosystems...
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John Gibson
P. Eby
Jean Birks
Colin Twitchell
C. Gray
J. Kariyeva
Water sampling for stable isotopes ( 18O and 2H) was carried out during 2009–2019 across Alberta, Canada, as part of a survey targeting 1022 open water wetlands. The study presents the first site...
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Karisa Tyler
Daniele Castagneri
Myroslava Khomik
Matthew Elmes
Patrick Fonti
Georg von Arx
Michael Pisaric
Richard Michael Petrone
Resource Date:
August
2022
As global temperatures increase, ongoing research is essential in understanding the long-term effects of climate change on tree dominated wetlands. Acting as a significant landform in the boreal...
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Canadian Conservation and Land Management Knowledge Network
This briefing note synthesizes knowledge from two resources on wetland mapping available on the Canadian and Conservation Land Management (CCLM) Knowledge Portal.
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Resource Date:
March
2022
In the discontinuous permafrost zone, thermokarst lakes and thermal erosion are widespread and common permafrost thaw-related phenomena. Thermokarst features are indicative of thaw sensitive...
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Clarice Perryman
Carmody McCalley
Jessica Ernakovich
Louis Lamit
Joanne Shorter
Erik Lilleskov
Ruth Varner
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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Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt
Pouya Sabokruhie
Tammy Rosner
A novel, quasi-two-dimensional surface water-quality modelling approach is presented in which the model domain can be discretised in two dimensions, but a one-dimension solver can still be applied to...