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Record W4413838769 · doi:10.24908/iqurcp19896

Ecosystem-Scale Carbon Fluxes Following Fen Restoration

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Katherine Bot

Bibliographic record

VenueInquiry Queen s Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicPeatlands and Wetlands Ecology
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEnvironmental scienceEcosystemScale (ratio)Restoration ecologyCarbon fibersCarbon fluxEcologyEnvironmental resource managementGeographyBiologyComputer science

Abstract

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Peatland restoration aims to re-establish carbon (C) sequestration and peat accumulation to the ecosystem following a disturbance. While bog restoration has been relatively well-studied, limited data is available on C exchange following fen restoration in Canada. My research was conducted at South Julius, Manitoba, a post-extraction peatland restored in 2016. Differing restoration treatments created contrasting hydrological conditions and thus plant communities across the site. The “wet” site included reprofiling, creation of berms, and spreading of donor material. Rainy conditions the following spring caused flooding that spread to active extraction areas. In response, a berm was installed which resulted in deep inundation. This site is now a marsh-like plant community currently dominated by Typha spp. in standing water. The “dry” site did not include reprofiling but was rewetted during restoration activities and developed a diverse plant community with sedges and shrubs. The restored areas are surrounded by undisturbed fens. Eddy covariance (EC) systems were installed in the dry, wet, and undisturbed sites to measure ecosystem-scale C fluxes in addition to hydrological and meteorological conditions, providing insights into differences in C exchange between the sites. Preliminary findings indicate that the undisturbed fen exhibits the highest net C uptake, while the wet site has elevated methane (CH4) emissions, likely linked to plant-mediated transport through the Typha spp. These findings highlight how hydrological outcomes and plant community development shape ecosystem greenhouse gas (GHG) function following restoration. My research will assess restoration outcomes and results will be important for GHG emission reporting for C offset credits and Canada’s national GHG inventory. This research was conducted under the supervision of Dr. Ian Strachan in the Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) Lab, Department of Geography and Planning.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.158
Threshold uncertainty score0.315

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.041
GPT teacher head0.332
Teacher spread0.291 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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