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Overview

Maria Strack is a researcher affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada, focusing primarily on environmental science. Their work spans multiple subfields, including ecology, atmospheric science, plant science, global and planetary change, and environmental chemistry.

The core areas of their research emphasize peatlands and wetlands ecology, which constitute the majority of their published work. Other significant topics explored include coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, botany and plant ecology studies, climate change and permafrost, fire effects on ecosystems, geology and paleoclimatology research, as well as cryospheric studies and observations.

Over time, Maria Strack has contributed articles to various scientific journals, frequently publishing in the Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, Environmental Research Letters, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Wetlands Ecology and Management, and Restoration Ecology.

The recent papers authored or coauthored by Maria Strack demonstrate their ongoing engagement with topics concerning climate solutions, peatlands, and ecosystem dynamics. Some notable recent publications include:

  • "Natural climate solutions for Canada," 2021, Science Advances
  • "The Boreal-Arctic Wetland and Lake Dataset (BAWLD)," 2021, Earth System Science Data
  • "The essential carbon service provided by northern peatlands," 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • "The Potential of Peatlands as Nature-Based Climate Solutions," 2022, Current Climate Change Reports
  • "Environmental drivers of increased ecosystem respiration in a warming tundra," 2024, Nature

The researcher frequently collaborates with several colleagues, including Scott J. Davidson, Megan Schmidt, Ellie M. Goud, Bin Xu, and Scott J. Ketcheson.

Best Publications

  • Greenhouse gas emission factors associated with rewetting of organic soils

    D. Wilson;D. Blain;J. Couwenberg;C.D. Evans

  • Response of vegetation and net ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange at different peatland microforms following water table drawdown

    M Strack;J. M Waddington;L Rochefort;Eeva-Stiina Tuittila

  • Effect of water table drawdown on northern peatland methane dynamics: Implications for climate change

    M. Strack;J. M. Waddington;E.-S. Tuittila;E.-S. Tuittila;E.-S. Tuittila

  • Response of peatland carbon dioxide and methane fluxes to a water table drawdown experiment

    M. Strack;M. Strack;J. M. Waddington

  • Effect of water table drawdown on peatland dissolved organic carbon export and dynamics

    M. Strack;J. M. Waddington;R. A. Bourbonniere;R. A. Bourbonniere;E. L. Buckton

  • Natural climate solutions for Canada.

    C. Ronnie Drever;Susan C. Cook-Patton;Susan C. Cook-Patton;Fardausi Akhter;Pascal H. Badiou

  • Dynamics of biogenic gas bubbles in peat and their effects on peatland biogeochemistry

    M. Strack;E. Kellner;J. M. Waddington

  • Distribution and diversity of Verrucomicrobia methanotrophs in geothermal and acidic environments

    Christine E. Sharp;Angela V. Smirnova;Jaime M. Graham;Matthew B. Stott

  • Annual carbon balance of a peatland 10 yr following restoration

    M. Strack;Y. C. A. Zuback

  • Toward restoring the net carbon sink function of degraded peatlands: Short-term response in CO2 exchange to ecosystem-scale restoration

    J. M. Waddington;M. Strack;M. J. Greenwood

  • The role of waterborne carbon in the greenhouse gas balance of drained and re-wetted peatlands

    Chris D. Evans;Flo Renou-Wilson;Maria Strack

  • Sedge Succession and Peatland Methane Dynamics: A Potential Feedback to Climate Change

    M. Strack;M. F. Waller;J. M. Waddington

  • Effect of water table drawdown on peatland nutrient dynamics: implications for climate change

    M. L. Macrae;K. J. Devito;M. Strack;J. M. Waddington

  • The Potential of Peatlands as Nature-Based Climate Solutions

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  • Multi-year net ecosystem carbon balance of a restored peatland reveals a return to carbon sink.

    Kelly A. Nugent;Ian B. Strachan;Maria Strack;Nigel T. Roulet

  • Organic matter accumulation in a restored peatland: evaluating restoration success.

    M. Lucchese;J.M. Waddington;M. Poulin;R. Pouliot

  • The Boreal–Arctic Wetland and Lake Dataset (BAWLD)

    David Olefeldt;Mikael Hovemyr;McKenzie A. Kuhn;David Bastviken

  • Carbon dioxide flux and net primary production of a boreal treed bog: Responses to warming and water-table-lowering simulations of climate change

    T. M. Munir;T. M. Munir;M. Perkins;E. Kaing;Maria Strack;Maria Strack

  • A Method to Determine Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity in Living and Undecomposed Sphagnum Moss

    Jonathan S. Price;Peter N. Whittington;David E. Elrick;Maria Strack

  • The essential carbon service provided by northern peatlands

    Lorna I Harris;Karen Richardson;Kelly A Bona;Scott J Davidson

  • Moisture controls on carbon dioxide dynamics of peat‐Sphagnum monoliths

    M. Strack;J. S. Price

  • Responses of carbon dioxide flux and plant biomass to water table drawdown in a treed peatland in northern Alberta: a climate change perspective

    T. M. Munir;B. Xu;M. Perkins;Maria Strack

  • Growing season carbon dioxide and methane exchange at a restored peatland on the Western Boreal Plain

    Maria Strack;Arnold Magnus Keith;Bin Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

James M. Waddington
James M. Waddington McMaster University
Jonathan S. Price
Jonathan S. Price University of Waterloo
Line Rochefort
Line Rochefort Université Laval
Richard M. Petrone
Richard M. Petrone University of Waterloo
Eeva-Stiina Tuittila
Eeva-Stiina Tuittila University of Eastern Finland
Merrin L. Macrae
Merrin L. Macrae University of Waterloo
Nigel T. Roulet
Nigel T. Roulet McGill University
Andrew Baird
Andrew Baird University of California, San Diego
Kevin J. Devito
Kevin J. Devito University of Alberta
David Olefeldt
David Olefeldt University of Alberta

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