Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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This report summarizes the results of a three-year research project to evaluate the effects of forest resource roads and construction techniques on wetland hydrology in Manitoba's boreal forest.
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Authors
Chantel Markle
Henry Gage
Alex Tekatch
Sophie Wilkinson
James Waddington
Boreal peatland ecosystems are generally resilient to low severity wildfire. However, climate change may increase wildfire intensity and frequency, potentially shifting wetlands to less wildfire...
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Stephanie Connor
Justin Hanisch
Danielle Cobbaert
Wetlands in the Oil Sands Region of Alberta are vulnerable to direct and indirect effects of human development including land disturbance, hydrologic alteration, and addition of contaminants. Nineteen...
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Presented at the Alberta Lake Management Society Conference 2022, this presentation discusses wetlands irreplaceable ecosystem services, such as nutrient filtration, and the effects of wetland removal...
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Authors
Christopher Evans
Vincent Gauci
To reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, conservation and restoration of wetlands play a key role. This report outlines the contribution of wetlands to global methane output; differences between...
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Wetlands: Nature's Natural Filter Fresh water is a vital resource for human society. We depend upon water for drinking, hydropower, irrigation, cooling, and cleaning; for products such as food, plants...
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Olena Volik
Richard Petrone
Jonathan Price
Wetlands comprise unique water storage and conveyance mechanisms that maintain landscape integrity under the sub-humid climate in the Athabasca Oil Sands Area. In addition to their internal function...
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Authors
Carla Ferreira
Milica Kašanin-Grubin
Marijana Solomun
Svetlana Sushkova
Tatiana Minkina
Wenwu Zhao
Zahra Kalantari
Abstract Wetlands are multifunctional systems performing as nature-based solutions (NBS) for water management. This paper provides an overview of natural and constructed wetlands and their potential...
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Resource Date:
April
2018
The Wetland Best Management Practices Knowledge Exchange releases monthly newsletters that highlight new research, publications, news, events and more. In this edition you will learn about: Peatland...
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Paige Olmsted
Sonia Patel
Infrastructure is the underlying structure that helps a country and its economy function. While most people think of infrastructure as concrete structures like bridges and ports, wetlands are also...
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Phoebe Maund
Katherine Irvine
Jonathan Reeves
Emily Strong
Ruth Cromie
Martin Dallimer
Zoe Davies
Resource Date:
November
2019
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...
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Authors
Olena Volik
Matthew Elmes
Richard Petrone
Eric Kessel
Adam Green
Danielle Cobbaert
Jonathan Price
Resource Date:
February
2020
Oil sands development within the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) has accelerated in recent decades, causing alteration to natural ecosystems including wetlands that perform many vital ecosystem...
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Authors
W.H. MacKenzie
J.R. Moran
This guide presents a site classification and interpretative information for wetlands and related ecosystems of British Columbia.
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Authors
Quinn Webber
Kristy Ferraro
Jack Hendrix
Eric Vander Wal
Resource Date:
January
2022
Historically the study of diet caribou and reindeer (Rangifer tarandus (Gmelin, 1788)) has been specific to herds and few comprehensive circumpolar analyses of Rangifer diet exist. As a result, the...
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Authors
Jan Adamczewski
Anne Gunn
Kim Poole
Alex Hall
John Nishi
John Boulanger
The Beverly herd was one of the first large migratory herds of barren-ground caribou ( Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) defined in northern Canada on the basis of annual return of breeding females to...
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Authors
W.J. Beese
J.S. Sandford
M.L. Harrison
C.N. Filipescu
Our coastal montane forests are a treasure trove of biodiversity, offering crucial cultural, social, and ecological benefits while also serving as valuable economic resources. Yet, high demand for...
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Authors
Jay Woosaree
Marshall McKenzie
The 2010 Reclamation Criteria for Wellsites and Associated Facilities for Native Grasslands was released in June of 2011 to relieve then current backlog of processing Reclamation Certificate...
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Authors
Daniel Fortin
Philip McLoughlin
Mark Hebblewhite
Resource Date:
March
2020
A significant challenge of conservation biology is to preserve species in places where their critical habitat also attracts significant economic interest. The problem is compounded when species...
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Authors
Joseph Bennett
Sean Maxwell
Amanda Martin
Iadine Chadès
Lenore Fahrig
Benjamin Gilbert
Resource Date:
February
2018
Abstract: The question of when to monitor and when to act is fundamental to applied ecology and notoriously difficult to answer. Value of information (VOI) theory holds great promise to help answer...
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Céline Boisvenue presents a lecture to the Canadian Institute of Forestry on GHG emissions in Forestry / Forest Ecology. In this talk, various models are introduced that could help viewers quantify...