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An International Perspective on Wetland Rehabilitation pp 205–214Cite as

Restoration of High Latitude Wetlands: An Example from the Canadian High Arctic

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Tundra communities are considered relatively simple in terms of their structure and depauperate in terms of vascular floristics, particularly in more climatically and edaphically severe high arctic zones (Young 1989, Edlund 1990), whereas regional cryptogamic species richness tends to increase here relative to temperate latitudes (Longton 1988). Although variously defined (Tarnocai and Zoltai 1988), wetlands are extremely limited in the high arctic (Bliss 1977, Svoboda and Freedman 1994) and are especially poor in terms of both vascular and non-vascular floristics.

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Forbes, B.C. (1999). Restoration of High Latitude Wetlands: An Example from the Canadian High Arctic. In: Streever, W. (eds) An International Perspective on Wetland Rehabilitation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4683-8_22

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