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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...
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...
Lecture: Conserving Caribou - Matters of Space, Time, and Scale
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The Toronto Field Naturalists are pleased to present "Conserving Caribou - Matters of Space, Time, and Scale." During this lecture, Jim Schaefer, Professor of Biology at Trent University, will speak...
Swamplands as Untapped Climate Solutions: A Look to the Hudson Bay Lowlands
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December 16th, 2021 at 11:00am MST to December 16th, 2021 at 12:15pm MST
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Swamplands such as peatlands, bogs, fens, marshes, and swamps have been demonized and dismissed as dismal, unhealthy “wastelands,” with little ecological value. But these underappreciated ecosystems...
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...