Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Yihan Zhao
Anne Naeth
Sarah Wilkinson
Amalesh Dhar
Process affected water and other industrial wastewaters are a major environmental concern. During oil sands mining, large amounts of oil sands process affected water (OSPW) are generated and stored in...
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Marie-Claude Roy
Ermias Azeria
David Locky
John Gibson
The analysis of functional trait-habitat relationships has been used to measure the degree to which environmental factors influence the assembly of ecological communities. In the Parkland and...
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Authors
Mélina Guêné Nanchen
Marie-Claire LeBlanc
Line Rochefort
Resource Date:
October
2021
Fire plays a major role in structuring and the functioning of boreal ecosystems. As peatlands are important components of boreal forests, the impact of fire upon these wetter ecosystems is...
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Authors
Sarah Wilkinson
Anne Naeth
Amalesh Dhar
Nature-based, low technology wastewater treatment systems can benefit small and remote communities. Adding a constructed floating wetland (CFW) to waste stabilization ponds can enhance treatment...
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Brittany Flemming
Vincent Futoransky
Wade Pruett
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Meike Lemmer
Bin Xu
Maria Strack
Linne Rochefort
Resource Date:
April
2022
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Authors
Dale H. Vitt
Melissa House
Lilyan C. Glaeser
Peatlands represent an important part of the landscape of boreal western Canada, occupying some 365,157 km 2. Sixty-three percent of these are minerogenous fens. Scattered among these fens are...
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Authors
Kimberley Murray
Melanie Bird
Maria Strack
Michael Cody
Bin Xu
Resource Date:
April
2021
This article outlines the results of monitoring two restored oil sands exploration sites, and discusses the effectiveness of treatments on tree recovery and greenhouse gas emissions.
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Authors
Sam Vander Kloet
Trevor Avery
P.J. Vander Kloet
G.R. Milton
The research reported here aims to characterise and compare different planting methods in terms of which would be more successful for achieving the regeneration of dwarf fleshy-fruited shrubs on...
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Authors
Bin Xu
Line Rochefort
Melanie Bird
Bhupesh Khadka
Maria Strack
The prompt introduction and establishment of peatland donor species through moss layer transfer technique was crucial to the overall re-establishment of peatland vegetation.
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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...
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Authors
Bérenger Bourgeois
Marc-André Lemay
Tommy Landry
Line Rochefort
Monique Poulin
Resource Date:
January
2019
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Authors
Emily Jones
Laura Chasmer
Kevin Devito
Christopher Hopkinson
Climate change in northern latitudes is increasing the vulnerability of peatlands and the riparian transition zones between peatlands and upland forests (referred to as ecotones) to greater frequency...
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Authors
Laura Chasmer
Edberto Moura Lima
Craig Mahoney
Chris Hopkinson
Joshua Montgomery
Danielle Cobbaert
Resource Date:
August
2021
Bi-temporal LiDAR data used to identify correspondence between density of anthropogenic disturbances, wetland shape complexity and changes in vegetation height within >1800 wetlands near Fort McKay
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Authors
Colette Shellian
Julia Linke
Gregory McDermid
Michael Cody
Scott Nielsen
Seismic lines in western Canada's boreal region are linear disturbances that affect the habitat of threatened woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou). To hasten the return of forest cover and...
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Authors
Caitlyn Lyons
Brain Branfireun
Jim McLaughlin
Zoë Lindo
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Emily Ury
Puvaanah Arrumugam
Ellen Herbert
Pascal Badiou
Bryan Page
Nandita Basu
Resource Date:
April
2023
Wetland restoration is a popular nutrient management strategy for improving water quality in agricultural catchments. However, a wetland’s ability to retain phosphorus is highly variable and wetlands...
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Authors
Suyuan Yang
Owen Sutton
Eric Kessel
Jonathan Price
At the Nikanotee Fen Watershed, a pioneering reclamation project in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, elevated sodium (Na+) in the porewater of mine-waste materials has been shown to migrate to the fen...
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Authors
Meagan Wood
Merrin Macrae
Maria Strack
Jonathan Price
Terry Osko
Richard Petrone
Wetlands are found extensively throughout the Western Boreal Plain, a region under pressure because of disturbance by the oil and gas industries. To understand how wetland systems may respond to...
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Authors
Patricio Pacheco-Cancino
Rubén Carrillo-López
Armando Sepulveda-Jauregui
Marcelo Somos-Valenzuela
Mosses of the genus Sphagnum are the dominant vegetation in most pristine peatlands in temperate and high-latitude regions. They play a crucial role in carbon sequestration, being responsible for ca...