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Increasing Contributions of Peatlands to Boreal Evapotranspiration in a Warming Climate
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The response of evapotranspiration (ET) to warming is of critical importance to the water and carbon cycle of the boreal biome, a mosaic of land cover types dominated by forests and peatlands. The...
Inside Canada’s Fight to Save its Peatlands
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Peat extraction companies have learned a lot about how to restore these vital ecosystems. But slow growth, climate change, and complexity mean conservation is an important strategy as well. Over the...
Large Stocks of Peatland Carbon and Nitrogen are Vulnerable to Permafrost Thaw
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Northern peatlands have accumulated large stocks of organic carbon (C) and nitrogen (N), but their spatial distribution and vulnerability to climate warming remain uncertain. Here, we used machine...
Peat Fest 2022
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August 30th, 2022 at 12:00am to September 4th, 2022 at 11:59pm
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Welcome to Peat-Fest 2022! The theme of this year’s Peat-Fest is Rights of Peatlands, so we’ll be taking inspiration from the incredible global successes of the Rights of Nature movement and...
Tundra Game Drives: An Arctic-Alpine Comparison
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Stone fences and blinds built by prehistoric hunters to gather and ambush elk and bighorn sheep above timberline in the Colorado Front Range are similar in concept and function to structures built by...
Women in Wetlands
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June 14th, 2022 at 1:00pm EST to June 14th, 2022 at 3:00pm EST
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Everyone is welcome to join this Women in Wetlands session! On the 14th of June, RE-PEAT and Dr. Elizabeth-Jane Burnett (Northumbria University) are hosting a panel discussion all about women and...