Data · dataset · 2024
Carbon cycle study—White River and Big Creek wetlands
Listed in Ontario Open Government Data
The goal of this carbon cycle study is to:
Description
- better understand wetland carbon uptake and losses to the atmosphere across watersheds
- evaluate wetland carbon’s usefulness as a natural climate solution __Study sites__ Study sites for this project are:
- Big Creek Watershed in Southern Ontario
- White River in the experimental forest area in Northern Ontario We chose these sites to represent relatively data-scarce regions of Ontario, and locations that represent:
- recently restored wetland
- an undisturbed wetland These locations can show how wetlands can act as natural climate solutions. __Wetlands and climate change__ Wetlands absorb and release atmospheric carbon as plants grow and decompose. If wetlands absorb more carbon than they release, they can act as natural climate solutions. Wetland restoration and wetland preservation:
- promotes carbon uptake by wetlands in Ontario
- slows future climate warming Wetland carbon exchange with the atmosphere varies immensely across space and time. These continuous measurements are used to:
- calculate the amount of carbon moving between the air, plants and soils of wetlands
- improve numerical models that will help us predict how wetland carbon exchanges might respond to climate warming at these locations and other locations __Download the study data__ We submit this data to Ameriflux, which is a network of sites measuring ecosystem CO2, water and energy fluxes in North, Central and South America. You can download the data from Ameriflux.
Links
Get the data
- Big Creek - Wetland Carbon Cycle Study ameriflux.lbl.gov/sites/siteinfo/CA-BCW ↗
download · from data ontario ca
- White River - Wetland Carbon Cycle Study ameriflux.lbl.gov/sites/siteinfo/CA-WRF ↗
download · from data ontario ca
Where it is published
- Ontario Open Government Data dataset page data.ontario.ca/dataset/carbon-cycle-study-white-river-and-big-creek-wetlands ↗
landing page · from data ontario ca
Documentation and papers
- Publisher page ameriflux.lbl.gov ↗
documentation · from data ontario ca
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.ontario.ca/api/3/action/package_show?id=b0e81ed1-f0f9-422c-9b24-274ead23f… ↗
metadata API · from data ontario ca
Topics
- From keywords
- Earth & Environmental Science · Greenhouse gases · Methane
- Inferred from text
- Climate change impacts and adaptation 69%
Provenance · 1 source records, 10 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ontario Open Government Data | b0e81ed1-f0f9-422c-9b24-274ead23f3a2 | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:4101 | enrichment · data ontario ca | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (69%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data ontario ca | connector:data_ontario_ca@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[subject].local:topic:greenhouse-gases | mapping · data ontario ca | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['greenhouse gases'] |
| concepts[subject].local:topic:methane | mapping · data ontario ca | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['methane'] |
| created_date | source · data ontario ca | connector:data_ontario_ca@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · data ontario ca | connector:data_ontario_ca@1.0.0 | /notes |
| license_text | source · data ontario ca | connector:data_ontario_ca@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · data ontario ca | connector:data_ontario_ca@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · data ontario ca | connector:data_ontario_ca@1.0.0 | /title |
| updated_date | source · data ontario ca | connector:data_ontario_ca@1.0.0 |