Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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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...
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January
2022
Swamplands: Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs, and the Improbable World of Peat Peatlands cover around 4% of the earth and yet they store twice as much carbon as all the world’s forests. But these...
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January
2020
This webinar focuses on lessons learned at three fen restoration sites in South Eastern Manitoba near the towns of Whitemouth and Elma.
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November
2022
Presented by Meike Lemmer, PhD, Research Scientist at University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf Dr. Meika Lemmer's research studied several peatland restoration approaches following the...
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January
2019
This presentation highlights the value of wetlands to forest management and the role wetlands play in sustaining healthy forested ecosystems.
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February
2018
The presentation provides examples of effective science communication, key implications for knowledge exchange in wetland conservation, and opportunities to help separate distractions from impact.
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March
2019
This presentation highlights the importance of northern Alberta’s “mountains” and wetlands on sustaining water flows in local streams and regional rivers in the Athabasca River Basin.
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Ground-truthing of remote-sensing of surface chlorophyll concentrations in Pigeon Lake was performed to calibrate a chlorophyll retrieval algorithm. High performance liquid chromatography and advanced...
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Moderate to rich fens covered with tamarack and black spruce cover large areas of Alberta. These peatlands are nearly pH neutral and are characterized by hummock-hollow topography where the hummocks...
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Tricia Stadnyk
John Gibson
Francisco Castrillon
Bernhard Mayer
The impacts of climate change can be clearly seen in our water resources. In Alberta, water quality is changing, and water supply is more variable and increasingly uncertain due to extreme weather...
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March
2020
This presentation provides an overview of methods for delineating wetland boundaries using a three-factor approach, which involves indicators of hydrophytic vegetation, hydric soil, and wetland...
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Marcel Darveau
Kylie McLeod
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January
2019
This presentation highlights the ecosystem services wetlands provide in the boreal forest and what this means for forest management and land users.
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February
2019
This presentation provides an overview of how wetlands are incorporated in the context of provincial forest management planning frameworks in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and BC.
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Aquatic invertebrates, often overlooked but essential components of aquatic ecosystems, offer valuable insights into the health and intactness of our waters. In this presentation, we embark on a...
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Jean-Marie Sobze
Amanada Schoonmaker
Line Rochefort
This article in Canadian Reclamation (Issue 1, Vol 12, pages 10-13) describes the wellsite clay pad removal and inversion technique applied by the NAIT Centre for Boreal Research in a peatland...
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Melanie Bird
Bin Xu
Jean-Marie Sobze
Amanda Schoonmaker
Line Rochefort
Reclaiming in-situ well pads built in peatland presents many challenges. Our project offers an innovative approach that removes the clay pad and geotextile, fluffs and re-profiles the buried peat...
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The issue of how to best manage the wastes resulting from the bitumen extraction processes is complex. When clays contained in the oil sands are subjected to the Clark Hot Water Extraction Process a...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
The Wetland Atlas describes the distribution of wetlands in Alberta and summarizes human footprint around open water wetlands. Also included are research spotlights on wetland biodiversity including...
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The Forest Management and Wetland Stewardship Initiative
This practitioner guide is a user-friendly compilation of wetland best management practices that can be applied to incorporate wetland stewardship into forestry planning and operations.
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Bev Gingras
Jules Lebeouf
Kylie McLeod
Leanne Mingo
These proceedings describe the findings of the Wetland Best Management Practices (BMPs) Workshop held on January 20th & 21st 2016 in Edmonton, Alberta hosted by Ducks Unlimited Canada.