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A Strong Mitigation Scenario Maintains Climate Neutrality of Northern Peatlands
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Northern peatlands store 300–600 Pg C, of which approximately half are underlain by permafrost. Climate warming and, in some regions, soil drying from enhanced evaporation are progressively...
Alberta Lake Management Society September 2020 Webinar Series
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September 18th, 2020 at 10:00am MST to September 18th, 2020 at 12:00pm MST
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ALMS Webinar Series: Join us every Friday morning in September from 10:00-12:00 MDT to hear from speakers from across North America on a range of exciting topics! September 4: Monitoring Alberta's...
Alberta Lake Management Society September 2020 Webinar Series
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Event Date and Time
September 25th, 2020 at 10:00pm MST to September 25th, 2020 at 12:00pm MST
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ALMS Webinar Series: Join us every Friday morning in September from 10:00-12:00 MDT to hear from speakers from across North America on a range of exciting topics! September 4: Monitoring Alberta's...
Connecting Diverse Knowledge Systems for Enhanced Ecosystem Governance: The Multiple Evidence Base Approach
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Indigenous and local knowledge systems as well as practitioners’ knowledge can provide valid and useful knowledge to enhance our understanding of governance of biodiversity and ecosystems for human...
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...
Rediscovery of Traditional Ecological Knowledge as Adaptive Management
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Indigenous groups offer alternative knowledge and perspectives based on their own locally developed practices of resource use. We surveyed the international literature to focus on the role of...
The Boreal-Arctic Wetland and Lake Dataset
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Here we present the Boreal–Arctic Wetland and Lake Dataset (BAWLD), a land cover dataset based on an expert assessment, extrapolated using random forest modelling from available spatial datasets of...
Wetlands as Nature-Based Solutions for Water Management in Different Environments
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Abstract Wetlands are multifunctional systems performing as nature-based solutions (NBS) for water management. This paper provides an overview of natural and constructed wetlands and their potential...
Workbook for Developing Lake Watershed Management Plans in Alberta
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The Alberta Lake Management Society has produced a workbook for groups to use when developing lake watershed management plans in this province.