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Satellite Observation of Regional Cumulative Effects on Wildlife Habitats (SORCE)

Project

This report summarizes the work that was completed by NRCan personnel and project partners at eleven study sites within Quebec and Labrador between July 22 and August 2, 2019. This work was conducted...

Wetland Knowledge Exchange

Boreal Caribou

Webinar - Status of DUC's Enhanced Wetland Classification Inventory and Case Study of the Akaitcho Wetland Mapping Project

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Contacts

Michael Merchant

Organization

Ducks Unlimited Canada

Project

Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) has been leading the effort to provide detailed and accurate wetland maps for large areas of the western boreal forest. To date, nearly 200 million acres of wetlands from...

Little Bear Environmental Consulting

Industrial Project Implementation and Boreal Water Bodies: Cradle to Grave Best Management Practice Considerations

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Contacts

Rick Schewchuck

Organization

Project

The presentation reviews physical and functional disturbances, best management practices, and opportunities for project planning/design, construction, operation and infrastructure decommissioning.

Alberta Pacific Forest Industries Inc.

Integrated Planning for Multiple Values (and Multiple Scales) Across Industrial Sectors

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Contacts

Margaret Donnelly

Organization

Project

Al-Pac is incorporating integrated land management approaches into forest operations, including opportunities for planning processes that consider disturbance a restoration across space and time.

NAIT Centre for Boreal Research

Removing In-Situ Footprint in Boreal Peatlands

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Contacts

Bin Xu

Organization

Project

Restoring peatlands in the in situ oil sands region of northern Alberta presents a set of challenges that have yet to be properly addressed. The lack of proven, cost-effective methods for restoring...

Wetland Mitigation on Manitoba Hydro Transmission Rights of Way: From Planning to Operations

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Contacts

James Mathewson

Organization

Manitoba Hydro

Project

This presentation provides an overview of Manitoba Hydro's planning through to operations approach to wetland mitigation on their rights of ways.

Seed Storage Behaviour of Eight Peatland Pool Specialists: Implications for Restoration

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Authors

Bérenger Bourgeois

Marc-André Lemay

Tommy Landry

Line Rochefort

Monique Poulin

Contacts

Monique Poulin

Organization

Seed introduction is a current practice for the conservation and restoration of plant populations and communities. In many cases, however, seeds of target wild species must be collected from natural...

Detection of Rain-On-Snow (ROS) Events and Ice Layer Formation Using Passive Microwave Radiometry: A Context for Peary Caribou Habitat in the Canadian Arctic

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Authors

Alexandre Langlois, Cheryl Ann Johnson, Benoit Montpetit, Alain Royer, E. A. Blukacz-Richards, Erin Neave, Caroline Dolant, Aleaxandre Roy, George Arhonditsis, Dong-Kyun Kim, Samarth Kaluskar, Ludovic Brucker

Contacts

Alexandre Langlois

Organization

Université de Sherbrooke

University of Toronto

Abstract: Over the past four decades, amplified warming in the Arctic has led to numerous consequences. Of particular relevance, negative anomalies of snow and sea ice cover, glacier retreat, and the...

Photo of some members of the wider research team in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut

Boreal Caribou

Evaluation of Threshold Freezing Conditions for Winter Road Construction over Discontinuous Permafrost Peatlands, Subarctic Canada

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Authors

Wendy E. Sladen

Stephen A. Wolfe

Peter D. Morse

Contacts

Wendy Sladen

Organization

Winter roads provide an important transportation service in northern regions. The Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road (TCWR), traversing subarctic Canada, is the busiest heavy-haul road in the world with...

Threshold Peat Burn Severity Breaks Evaporation‐Limiting Feedback

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Authors

Sophie L. Wilkinson

Gregory J. Verkaik

Paul A. Moore

James M. Waddington

Contacts

Sophie L. Wilkinson

James Michael Waddington

Organization

McMaster University

A suite of autogenic ecohydrological feedbacks and moss traits are important for protecting vast peatland carbon stocks following wildfire disturbance. Here, we examine how peat burn severity and...

University of Eastern Finland

Warming Impacts on Boreal Fen CO2 Exchange Under Wet and Dry Conditions

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Authors

Anna M. Laine

Päivi Mäkiranta

Raija Laiho

Lauri Mehtätalo

Timo Penttilä

Aino Korrensalo

Kari Minkkinen

Hannu Fritze

Eeva‐Stiina Tuittila

Contacts

Anna M. Laine

Organization

Natural Resources Institute Finland

University of Helsinki

Northern peatlands form a major soil carbon (C) stock. With climate change, peatland C mineralization is expected to increase, which in turn would accelerate climate change. A particularity of...

Seismic Lines in the Boreal and Arctic Ecosystems of North America: Environmental Impacts, Challenges, and Opportunities

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Authors

Anna Dabros

Matthew Pyper

Guillermo Castilla

Contacts

Anna Dabros

Organization

Fuse Consulting Ltd.

The oil and gas industry has grown significantly throughout the boreal and arctic ecosystems of North America. A major feature of the ecological footprint of oil and gas exploration is seismic lines...

Harvesting Surface Vegetation does not Impede Self‐Recovery of Sphagnum Peatlands

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Authors

Mélina Guêné-Nanchen

Sandrine Hugron

Line Rochefort

Contacts

Mélina Guêné‐Nanchen

Organization

Ecosystem restoration frequently involves the reintroduction of plant material in the degraded ecosystem. When there are no plant nurseries or seeds available on the market, the plant material has to...

Northern Arizona University

Cross-Scale Controls on Carbon Emissions from Boreal Forest Megafires

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Authors

Xanthe Walker

Brendan Rogers

Jennifer Baltzer

Steven Cumming

Nicola Day

Scott Goetz

Jill Johnstone

Edward Schuur

Merritt Turetsky

Michelle Mack

Contacts

Xanthe Walker

Organization

Woods Hole Research Center

Wilfrid Laurier University

University of Saskatchewan

University of Guelph

Climate warming and drying is associated with increased wildfire disturbance and the emergence of megafires in North American boreal forests. Changes to the fire regime are expected to strongly...

The State of Canada's Forests Annual Report 2020

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Organization

As Canadians, our forests permeate our lives, and Canada’s forest sector is an essential economic engine and major employer of Canadians, including in Indigenous and rural communities. The theme of...

University of Northern British Columbia

The Role of Hummocks in Re-establishing Black Spruce Forest Following Permafrost Thaw

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Authors

Kristine M. Haynes

Jessica Smart

Brenden Disher

Olivia Carpino

William L. Quinton

Contacts

Kristine M. Haynes

Organization

University of Waterloo

Environment and Climate Change Canada

Northwestern Canada's discontinuous permafrost landscape is transitioning rapidly due to permafrost thaw, with the conversion of elevated, forested peat plateaus to low‐lying, treeless wetlands...

Wilfrid Laurier University

The Hydrology of Interconnected Bog Complexes in Discontinuous Permafrost Terrains

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Authors

Ryan Connon

William Quinton

James Craig

J. Hanisch

Oliver Sonnentag

Contacts

Ryan F. Connon

Organization

University of Waterloo

University of Montreal

In the zone of discontinuous permafrost, the cycling and storage of water within and between wetlands is poorly understood. The presence of intermittent permafrost bodies tends to impede and re‐direct...

Environment and Climate Change Canada

Increasing Contributions of Peatlands to Boreal Evapotranspiration in a Warming Climate

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Authors

Manuel Helbig

James Michael Waddington

Pavel Alekseychik

Brian Amiro

Mika Aurela

Alan Barr

Andrew Black

Peter Blanken

Sean Carey

Jiquan Chen

Jinshu Chi

Ankur Desai

Allison Dunn

Eugenie Euskirchen

Lawrence Flanagan

Inke Forbrich

Thomas Friborg

Achim Grelle

Silvie Harder

Michal Heliasz

Elyn Humphreys

Hiroki Lkawa

Pierre-Erik Isabelle

Hiroki Iwata

Rachhpal Jassal

Mika Korkiakoski

Juliya Kurbatova

Lars Kutzbach

Anders Lindroth

Mikaell Ottosson Lofvenius

Annalea Lohila

Ivan Mammarella

Philip Marsh

Trofim Maximov

Joe Melton

Paul Moore

Daniel Nadeau

Erin Nicholls

Mats Nilsson

Takeshi Ohta

Matthias Peichl

Richard Petrone

Roman Petrov

Anatoly Prokushkin

William Quinton

David Reed

Nigel Roulet

Benjamin Runkle

Oliver Sonnentag

Ian Stachan

Pierre Taillardat

Eeva-Stiina Tuittila

Juha-Pekka Tuovinen

Jessica Turner

Masahito Ueyama

Andrej Varlagin

Martin Wilmking

Steven Wofsy

Vyacheslav Zyianov

Contacts

Manuel Helbig

Organization

McMaster University

University of Helsinki

University of Manitoba

Dalhousie University

University of Lethbridge

University of British Columbia

Wilfrid Laurier University

University of Montreal

University of Eastern Finland

McGill University

Finnish Meteorological Institute

University of Colorado

Michigan State University

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Worcester State University

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Marine Biological Laboratory

University of Copenhagen

Lund University

Carleton University

Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences National Agriculture and Food Research Organization

Shinshu University

Russian Academy of Science

University of Arkansas

University of Hamburg

Osaka Prefecture University

University of Greifswald

Harvard University

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...

Florence Bascom Geoscience Center

Large Stocks of Peatland Carbon and Nitrogen are Vulnerable to Permafrost Thaw

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Authors

Gustaf Hugelius

Julie Loisel

Sarah Chadburn

Robert Jackson

Miriam Jones

Glen MacDonald

Maija Marushchak

David Olefeldt

Maara Packalen

Matthias Siewert

Claire Treat

Merritt Turetsky

Carolina Voigt

Zicheng Yu

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Organization

University of California

University of Jyväskylä

University of Toronto

University of Alberta

Umeå University

University of New Hampshire

University of Guelph

University of Colorado

University of Montreal

Lehigh University

Northeast Normal University

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...