Transient peat properties in two pond-peatland complexes in the sub-humid Western Boreal Plain, Canada
In the Canadian Western Boreal Plain (WBP), wetlands (ponds and peatlands) comprise up to 50% of the landscape and represent unique habitat where summer precipitation is often outpaced by evapotranspiration and hillslope groundwater position does not follow topography.In this sub-humid location, groundwater fluxes and stores in riparian peatlands i