Browsing Geography and Environmental Management by Subject "restoration"
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An evaluation of the water balance and moisture dynamics within Sphagnum mosses following the restoration (rewetting) of an abandoned block-cut bog
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)Artificial drainage networks established throughout peatlands during the peat extraction process often remain active following abandonment, maintaining a water table relatively far from the surface of the peat and hindering ... -
The feasibility of field based mechanical compression to reduce the capillary barrier effect and increase CO2 sequestration in a restored cutover peatland
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-28)Ten years after restoration was implemented at the Bois-des-Bel peatland (BdB) in Quebec, there was limited hydrological connectivity between the regenerated Sphagnum moss and the remnant cutover peat due to the formation ... -
Fen restoration on a bog cut down to sedge peat: A hydrological assessment of rewetting and the impact of a subsurface gyttja layer
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-22)Vacuum harvested peatlands do not easily regain their hydrological function after peat production therefore restoration is required to create hydrological conditions appropriate for the growth of peat producing fen plant ... -
Impacts of seismic line restoration on CO2, CH4, and biomass
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-21)Oil and gas exploration has resulted in over 300,000 km of linear disturbances, known as seismic lines, throughout boreal peatlands across Canada. Sites are left with altered hydrologic and topographic conditions that ... -
Impacts Of Seismic Line Restoration Techniques On Nutrient Biogeochemical Processes In A Boreal Fen
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-23)Peatlands contain 40 cm or more of partially-decomposed plant matter and sequester carbon and nutrients. The disturbance of peatlands alters these ecological functions. Seismic lines, long cutlines in the forest created ...