If you haven’t found enough information on your topic using the key databases (in the box to the left), then continue your searching in the following supplemental databases.
The following databases provide information on Canadian topics and/or a Canadian perspective on a topic or issue. In particular, they can provide some news and current events about issues such the melting of the polar icecap.
The following list provides examples of keywords that can be used to search for articles on your topic.
biogeography
biomes
biota
"climate change"
"carbon cycle" or "carbon cycling" or "carbon flux*" or "CO2 flux"
"core sample*" (OR core sampl*)
ecozones
eccosystems (or grasslands or wetlands or prairies or desert or boreal forest or arctic, etc.)
environment
"global warming"
"gas exchange"
humidity
measurement
"microbial ecology"
microclimate
nutrient*
"nutrient cycle"
"nitrogen cycle"
permafrost
"permafrost soils"
"permafrost thaw"
"phenology
"plant ecology"
"plant community"
plants or lichen or moss
precipitation
radiation (sunlight)
"soil analysis"
"soil biology"
"soil respiration"
succession
survey*
temperature
"terrestrial ecosystems
tundra
vegetation
wildlife (or mammals or insect* or birds or fish*, entomology, aves, etc.)
Note: Use the asterisk * to search a for keyword with various endings. For example, searching: sampl* , will search for: sample, samples, and sampling.
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