Essays about: "boreal catchment"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 39 essays containing the words boreal catchment.

  1. 1. Riparian plant biodiversity and community composition of ditches and straightened streams : identifying key environmental drivers in a boreal forest setting

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

    Author : Rasmus Staaf; [2024]
    Keywords : artificial waterways; riparian zone; novel ecosystems; ; forestry; ditch network maintenance; species richness; hill-diversity; drainage ditches; coarse woody debris; ditch cleaning; ecology;

    Abstract : Modified ecosystems are typically seen as degraded and having no ecological value. In many cases, the modification of the ecosystem was done more than 100 years ago and may have had time to recover and become a refugia for species that were once more common in the landscape. READ MORE

  3. 2. Controls over stream temperature in a northern boreal landscape

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap

    Author : Oskar Damström; [2023]
    Keywords : Aquatic ecosystems; Climate change; Stream warming; Boreal streams;

    Abstract : With widespread increases in air temperature, it is expected that the temperature of aquatic ecosystems will also increase, especially at high latitudes. Warmer streams and rivers could have severe, direct impacts on cold-adapted aquatic fauna but may also indirectly influence species by reducing the amount of suitable habitat. READ MORE

  4. 3. Forest Ditches As Habitat For Aquatic Macroinvertebrate In Boreal Landscapes

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap

    Author : Lara Sánchez Calderón; [2022]
    Keywords : aquatic macroinvertebrates; drainage ditches; Sweden; mineral soil; peat soil; forestry;

    Abstract : Large areas of northern Sweden have been ditched to promote forest growth by draining wet soils and peatlands. These ditches have greatly added to length of Sweden’s stream and river network, but the ecological properties of these man-made aquatic environments is poorly understood. READ MORE

  5. 4. Temporal Trends in Dissolved Inorganic Carbon in a Swedish Boreal Catchment

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Lukas Rehn; [2021]
    Keywords : Boreal catchments; carbon cycling; carbon dioxide; DIC; headwater streams; Krycklan Catchment Study; trend analysis;

    Abstract : Inland waters are important systems for transforming, storing and transporting carbon along the aquatic continuum, but also by emitting carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) to the atmosphere. In light of the last decades observed increase in dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in many inland waters across the northern hemisphere, a logical question arise whether other aquatic carbon species display similar trends. READ MORE

  6. 5. Patterns and factors affecting brownification in a boreal river

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Teknisk vattenresurslära

    Author : Emil Winqvist; [2021]
    Keywords : Bolmen; brownification; precipitation; discharge; sulfur deposition; land use; trend analysis; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : During the last decades a brownification of the lakes and streams in the northern hemisphere has been observed. The change has been attributed to an increase of organic content in the water, leached from the top soil layers, called humic substances. READ MORE