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A Framework to Identify Priority Wetland Habitats and Movement Corridors for Urban Amphibian Conservation
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Cities worldwide are expanding in area and human population, posing multiple challenges to amphibian populations, including habitat loss from removal of wetlands and terrestrial upland habitat...
Canadian Wetland Inventory using Google Earth Engine: The First Map and Preliminary Results
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Although wetlands provide valuable services to humans and the environment and cover a large portion of Canada, there is currently no Canada-wide wetland inventory based on the specifications defined...
Human-induced Behavioural Changes of Global Threatened Terrestrial Mammals
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Abstract Aim: Understanding changes in the behaviour of threatened species responding to rapidly increasing human disturbances is critical for biodiversity conservation. Here, we synthesize a meta...
Mount Royal University World Wetlands Symposium 2023
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Event Date and Time
February 2nd, 2023 at 8:30am MST to February 2nd, 2023 at 4:00pm MST
Calgary, AB
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World wetlands day (WWD) is celebrated on the 2nd of February each year, to mark the protection of wetlands under the Ramsar Convention. Events to celebrate WWD are hosted around the world, with the...
Mount Royal University World Wetlands Symposium 2024
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Calgary, AB
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World Wetlands Day (WWD) is celebrated on the 2nd of February each year, to mark the protection of wetlands under the Ramsar Convention. Events to celebrate WWD are hosted around the world, with the...
Mount Royal University's Virtual World Wetlands Day 2022
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Event Date and Time
February 2nd, 2022 at 8:30am MST to February 2nd, 2022 at 12:00pm MST
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World wetlands day (WWD) is celebrated on the 2nd of February each year, to mark the protection of wetlands under the Ramsar Convention. Events to celebrate WWD are hosted around the world, with the...
Recent Climate Change has Driven Divergent Hydrological Shifts in High-latitude Peatlands
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High-latitude peatlands are changing rapidly in response to climate change, including permafrost thaw. Here, we reconstruct hydrological conditions since the seventeenth century using testate amoeba...
The Essential Carbon Service Provided by Northern Peatlands
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Northern peatlands have cooled the global climate by accumulating large quantities of soil carbon (C) over thousands of years. Maintaining the C sink function of these peatlands and their immense long...
Video - Determining Community Level Physiological Profiles of Organic Soil Horizons
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This presentation is about understanding how land disturbances impact the diversity, abundance and activity of soil microorganisms, and discusses both CLPP and functional diversity
Virtual World Wetlands Day 2021
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Event Date and Time
February 2nd, 2021 at 8:30am MST to February 2nd, 2021 at 11:30pm MST
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World wetlands day (WWD) is celebrated on the 2nd of February each year, to mark the protection of wetlands under the Ramsar Convention. Events to celebrate WWD are hosted around the world, with the...
Webinar - Boreal Fen Vegetation Initiation on Residual Mineral Substrates
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Boreal Fen Vegetation Initiation on Residual Mineral Substrates Presented by Felix Nwaishi, Mount Royal University and Bin Xu, NAIT Centre for Boreal Research Energy exploration in Alberta’s oil sands...