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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...
Fire Temperatures and Sphagnum Damage during Prescribed Burning on Peatlands
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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...
Peat Fest 2022
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Event Date and Time
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...
Peatland Pools are Tightly Coupled to the Contemporary Carbon Cycle
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Peatlands are globally important stores of soil carbon (C) formed over millennial timescales but are at risk of destabilization by human and climate disturbance. Pools are ubiquitous features of many...
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 Impacts of Climate and Social Changes on Cloudberry (Bakeapple) Picking: A Case Study from Southeastern Labrador
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Abstract The traditional subsistence activities of Indigenous communities in Canada's subarctic are being affected by the impacts of climate change, compounding the effects of social, economic and...
The Third Generation of Pan-Canadian Wetland Map at 10 m Resolution Using Multisource Earth Observation Data on Cloud Computing Platform
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Development of the Canadian Wetland Inventory Map (CWIM) has thus far proceeded over two generations, reporting the extent and location of bog, fen, swamp, marsh, and water wetlands across the country...
Wetlands for Wellbeing: Piloting a Nature-Based Health Intervention for the Management of Anxiety and Depression
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Abstract Nature-based health interventions (NBIs) for the treatment of poor mental health are becoming increasingly common, yet evidence to support their effectiveness is lacking. We conduct a pilot...
Women in Wetlands
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Event Date and Time
June 14th, 2022 at 1:00pm EST to June 14th, 2022 at 3:00pm EST
Organization
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...