Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
Resource
Resource Date:
October
2021
In a world filled with breathtaking beauty, we have often overlooked the elusive charm and magic of certain landscapes. A cloudy river flows into a verdant Arctic wetland where sandhill cranes and...
Resource
Authors
Christopher Kilner
Alyssa Carrell
Daniel Wieczynski
Samantha Votzke
Katrina DeWitt
Andrea Yammine
Jonathan Shaw
Dale Pelletier
David Weston
Jean Gibert
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
Resource
Authors
Eunji Byun
Fereidoun Rezanezhad
Linden Fairbairn
Stephanie Slowinski
Nathan Basiliko
Jonathan Price
William Quinton
Pascale Roy-Léveillée
Kara Webster
Philippe Van Cappellen
Resource Date:
December
2021
Peat accumulation in high latitude wetlands represents a natural long-term carbon sink, resulting from the cumulative excess of growing season net ecosystem production over non-growing season (NGS)...
Resource
Protocols for sampling biotic and abiotic parameters in large lakes, large rivers, wetlands, and streams in Alberta is provided. Estimates of time costs are given.
Resource
Authors
Boreal Ecosystem Recovery and Assessment
The 2024 issue of The Edge summarizes the following key findings: Plan A better understanding of passive recovery trajectories will help guide restoration planning LiDAR is a powerful planning tool...
Resource
Authors
Ryan Cannon
William Quinton
James Craig
J. Hanisch
Oliver Sonnentag
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...
Resource
Authors
Jeremy Biggs
Stefanie von Fumetti
Mary Kelly-Quinn
Resource Date:
November
2016
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
Resource
Ground water conditions are frequently overlooked when placing surface materials in a mine reclamation scheme. The purpose of this paper is to outline the interaction between the surface materials and...
Resource
Authors
Maria Strack
Scott Davidson
Takashi Hirano
Christian Dunn
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
Resource
Authors
Alex Horne
Marc Beutel
Greg Woodside
Nitrate pollution of surface water from farms and urban runoff is widespread – impairing drinking water supplies, recreation, and wildlife habitat. The scale of the problem in rivers has overwhelmed...
Resource
Authors
Masoud Mahdianpari
Brian Brisco
Jean Granger
Fariba Mohammadimanesh
Bahram Salehi
Saeid Homayouni
Laura Bourgeau-Chavez
Development of the Canadian Wetland Inventory Map (CWIM) has thus far proceeded over two generations, reporting the extent and location of bog, fen, swamp, marsh, and water wetlands across the country...
Resource
Authors
Scott Davidson
Emily Dazé
Eunji Byun
Dean Hiler
Markus Kangur
Julie Talbot
Sarah Finkelstein
Maria Strack
Resource Date:
March
2022
Swamps are a highly significant wetland type in North America both in terms of areal extent and their role in terrestrial carbon cycling. These wetlands, characterized by woody vegetation cover...
Resource
Authors
Jos Verhoeven
Willem Koerselman
Boudewijn Beltman
Resource Date:
January
1988
Species-rich quaking fens have become rare in Western Europe. In Great Britain, Germany and The Netherlands they have been drained and turned into agricultural land. In The Netherlands small fens have...
Resource
Authors
Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers
Marcel Kok
Over fifty years of global conservation has failed to bend the curve of biodiversity loss, so we need to transform the ways we govern biodiversity. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity aims to...
Resource
Authors
Waverley Birch
MIchael Drescher
Jeremy Pittman
Rebecca Rooney
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
Resource
Authors
Julie Lovitt
Mir Mustafizur Rahman
Saraswati Saraswati
Gregory McDermid
Maria Strack
Bin Xu
Resource Date:
February
2018
Peatlands are globally significant stores of soil carbon, where local methane (CH 4 ) emissions are strongly linked to water table position and microtopography. Historically, these factors have been...
Resource
Authors
Aino Korrensalo
Tomáš Hájek
Timo Vesala
Lauri Mehtätalo
Eeva-Stiina Tuittila
Resource Date:
November
2016
Plant functional types (PFTs) are used to make generalizations in modeling how plants impact ecosystem functioning. In boreal bogs the number of plant species is small, but several PFTs are...
Resource
Mountain valley bottom peatlands are poorly studied systems, particularly in Alberta, Canada, where the provincial inventory has neither mapped nor characterized them. Nonetheless, these ecosystems...
Resource
Dr. Lorin Hicks talks about the Montana example of habitat conservation planning in forestry management.
Resource
Resource Date:
March
2013
This presentation describes the Alberta Watershed Toolkit as a watershed planning community space to share success stories and tools.