Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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An independent full-cost-benefit accounting and economic analysis of woodland caribou habitat restoration in northeastern British Columbia.
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Authors
K. Best
Donatella Zona
E Briant
Chun-Ta Lai
David Lipson
K.R. McEwing
Scott Davidson
Walter Oeche
Significant uncertainties persist concerning how Arctic soil tundra carbon emission responds to environmental changes. In this study, 24 cores were sampled from drier (high centre polygons and rims)...
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Authors
Terry Callaghan
Lars Olof Björn
Yuri Chernov
Terry Chapin
Torben Christensen
Brian Huntley
Rolf Ims
Margareta Johansson
Dyanna Jolly
Sven Jonasson
Nadya Matveyeva
Nicolai Panikov
Walter Oechel
Gus Shaver
Josef Elster
Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir
Kari Laine
Kari Taulavuori
Erja Taulavuori
Christoph Zöckler
Environmental manipulation experiments showed that species respond individualistically to each environmental-change variable. The greatest responses of plants were generally to nutrient, particularly...
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This book is composed of chapters that reveal our current state of knowledge on reclamation and restoration of these boreal ecosystems. The boreal forest, or taiga, is a mosaic of lakes, peatlands...
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The Forest Restoration Virtual Tours and Silviculture Toolkit provides resources to support successful forest restoration practices on oil sands sites. This site was first developed by Canada’s Oil...
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Authors
Ville Vasko
Simon Gaultier
Anna Blomberg
Thomas Lilley
Kai Norrdahl
Jon Brommer
Wetlands are important habitats for insectivorous bats, as the presence of water promotes insect abundance and provides drinking water for wildlife, and therefore could promote bat conservation...
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Authors
Denys Yemshanov
Mackenzie Simpson
Ning Liu
Aaron Petty
Frank Koch
Eric Neilson
Cynthia Chand
George Duffy
Vita Hoyles
Chris Mallon
Abstract In western Canada, decades of oil-and-gas exploration have fragmented boreal landscapes with a dense network of linear forest disturbances (seismic lines). These seismic lines are implicated...
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Authors
L. Dinesen
H. Joosten
Line Rochefort
R. Lindsay
S. Glatzel
Resource Date:
November
2021
Peatlands cover about 400 million hectares (ha), or 3% of the land surface of our planet. Yet they store more carbon, more effectively and for longer periods, than any other ecosystem on land. Intact...
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New Brunswick Environmental Network
The objective of this toolkit is to create a hub of information needed by watershed and restoration groups who want to create a riparian reforestation project. This toolkit hopes to take you through...
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Resource Date:
December
2016
Presentation from the Seismic Line Restoration Technical Session Edmonton, AB December 1 st , 2016 Organized by the Canadian Institute of Forestry This technical session will facilitate discussion and...
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Authors
S. Couturier
Aaron Dale
Bryn Wood
Jamie Snook
Formal report of the results of the 2017 aerial survey of the Torngat Mountains caribou herd.
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This publication discusses the restoration of treed peatlands after disturbances caused by oil and gas activities, particularly in areas where seismic lines have been created. Seismic lines are...
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Agriculture, urban development, and woody encroachment have reduced the North American tallgrass prairie ecosystem to less than 1% of its historical extent. The remnants of this now rare habitat are...
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Authors
Anthony Stewart
Meghan Halabisky
Chad Babcock
David Butman
David D’Amore
Monika Moskal
Inland wetlands are critical carbon reservoirs storing 30% of global soil organic carbon (SOC) within 6% of the land surface. However, forested regions contain SOC-rich wetlands that are not included...
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The resource information needs of land use, soil handling and revegetation in the US are integral to the reclamation planning and permitting requirements of Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act...
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The current infestation of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) is having a significant effect on the lodgepole pine forests of Interior British Columbia. By 2004, 7 million hectares had...
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Resource Date:
November
2015
This 2015 report prepared for the Nunavut Wildlife management Board reviews both scientific and traditional knowledge sources published from 2010-2015 on the effects of human disturbance on barren...
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AMEC Earth & Environmental Limited
Various methods have been developed and used to revegetate sites disturbed by oil and gas activities in Western Canada. Considerable information describing these methods and their effectiveness exists...
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Authors
Katayoun Moazami-Goudarzi
Olivier Andréoletti
Jean-Luc Vilotte
Vincent Béringue
Resource Date:
October
2021
This review summarizes our current understanding of CWD control, focusing on PRNP genetic, strain diversity and capacity to infect other animal species, including humans.
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Authors
Ronny Seidel
Ullrich Dettmann
Bärbel Tiemeyer
Peat and other organic soils (e.g., organo-mineral soils) show distinctive volume changes through desiccation and wetting. Important processes behind volume changes are shrinkage and swelling. There...