Research themes: GHG exchange in managed and modified systems

Our primary interest is the role that human activity has on the greenhouse gas exchange in ecosystems. We continue to examine ecosystems that have been modified directly through a land-use change or indirectly through climate change. We also are examining ecosystems that are managed for food production.

• Reservoir GHG
• Harvested Peatlands
• Marsh wetlands
• Agricultural GHG

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Our work with Hydro Quebec in the eastern James Bay boreal forest involved examining the net effect of a land-use change. Flooding the boreal forest to create a hydro-electric reservoir alters the net exchange of carbon and water with the atmosphere.

read more about the Reservoir GHG project

Our work with the Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss Association at locations in Quebec and Alberta involves examining the net changes in carbon cycling resulting from drainage, peat extraction and restoration.

read more about the EMISSIONS DURING HARVEST project

read more about the RestorATION project

We are examining the controls on, and fate of, carbon from a temperate freshwater marsh that is part of the Mer Bleue wetland complex near Ottawa, Ontario.

read more about the Marsh wetlands project

Our collaborative work with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada focuses on the movement of GHGs from various components of agroecosystems.

read more about our Agricultural research projects

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