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Acting for Wetlands: Challenges and Opportunities
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Event Date and Time
January 31st, 2022 at 7:00am MST to January 31st, 2022 at 8:15am MST
Organization
The Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands is pleased to invite you to a virtual event, organized for World Wetlands Day 2022 on Monday, 31 January 2022 from 15.00 to 16.15 CET. Marking the first...
Balancing Between Predation Risk and Food by Boreal Breeding Ducks
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Wetlands belong to the globally most threatened habitats, and organisms depending on them are of conservation concern. Wetland destruction and quality loss may affect negatively also boreal breeding...
Decreased Carbon Accumulation Feedback Driven by Climate‐Induced Drying of Two Southern Boreal Bogs over Recent Centuries
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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...
Digging Into Canadian Soils - An Introduction to Soil Science
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Written entirely by members of the Canadian Society of Soil Science, "Digging into Canadian Soils: An Introduction to Soil Science" provides an introduction to the core disciplines of soil science...
Environmental Spaces for Palsas and Peat Plateaus are Disappearing at a Circumpolar Scale
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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...
Global Guidelines for Peatland Rewetting and Restoration
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The Convention on Wetlands (The Convention) and other national, regional and global policy frameworks promote the restoration of degraded peatlands. Rewetting peatland to reduce greenhouse gas...
Global Wetland Outlook: State of the World's Wetlands and Their Services to People 2018
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Conservation and wise use of wetlands are vital for human livelihoods. The wide range of ecosystem services wetlands provide means that they lie at the heart of sustainable development. Yet policy and...
Governance as a Driver of Change in the Canadian Boreal Zone
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The Canadian boreal forest is primarily public land, owned and managed by provincial governments on behalf of the public interest. Boreal forest governance consists of a complex patchwork of federal...
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...
Integrating Traditional and Evolutionary Knowledge in Biodiversity Conservation: A Population Level Case Study
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Despite their dual importance in the assessment of endangered/threatened species, there have been few attempts to integrate traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and evolutionary biology knowledge...
Intra- and Interspecific Variation in Spectral Properties of Dominant Sphagnum Moss Species in Boreal Peatlands
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Boreal peatlands store ~25 % of global soil organic carbon and host many endangered species; however, they face degradation due to climate change and anthropogenic drainage. In boreal peatlands...
Modeled Production, Oxidation, and Transport Processes of Wetland Methane Emissions in Temperate, Boreal, and Arctic Regions
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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...
Peatlands & climate commitments: Enhancing climate action through peatlands
Event
Event Date and Time
June 23rd, 2022 at 1:30am MST to June 23rd, 2022 at 9:00am MST
The session will be organized in 2 different occasions on Thursday 23 June 2022 Morning session: 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. CEST/UTC +2 (Rome time) Afternoon session: 15:00 – 17:00 p.m. CEST/UTC +2 (Rome time)...
Practical Peatland Restoration
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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...