Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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To assess climatic and soil conditions under which salts will move out of the root zone in a soil disturbed by a pipeline and to determine the rate at which salts will move in disturbed soils.
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Authors
Anna Dabros
Matthew Pyper
Guillermo Castilla
Resource Date:
February
2018
The oil and gas industry has grown significantly throughout the boreal and arctic ecosystems of North America. A major feature of the ecological footprint of oil and gas exploration is seismic lines...
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One of the major tasks facing the coal mining industry today is dealing with environmental concerns. The requirement of selectively handling topsoil and subsoil for reclaiming plains strip mines is...
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Authors
Karen Cannon
Sandra Landsburg
Concerns about soil compaction on pipeline rights-of-way have increased with the introduction of heavier, more powerful construction equipment
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The soil resources in the Highvale Mine area are predominantly thin Black Solodized Solonetzic and Gleysolic soils developed on residual bedrock of the Edmonton Formation. A significant amount of Gray...
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Origins, extent and reclamation of saline soils in Alberta are described. Natural and man-induced salinity are addressed but the latter is emphasized. Major activities/structures responsible for...
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Pedocan Land Evaluation Ltd.
Part 1 of this manual is a background and explanatory section that describes the terminology used in soil surveys and presents the assumptions and conventions upon which the interpretations are based
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Pedocan Land Evaluation Ltd.
Part 2 presents typical data and interpretations for each soil series in Alberta. The interpretations were made by applying the guidelines in Part 1, and checking the results against experience
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InnoTech Alberta
University of Alberta
The InnoTech/UofA above ground mesocosm facility enables configurable, innovative approaches for assessing potential environmental and ecological impacts of industrial activities
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Authors
Manuel Helbig
Mike Waddington
Pavel Alekseychik
Brian Amiro
Mika Aurela
Alan Barr
Andrew Black
Sean Carey
Jiquan Chen
Jinshu Chi
Ankur Desai
Allison Dunn
Eugenie Euskirchen
Lawrence Flanagan
Thomas Friborg
Michelle Garneau
Achim Grelle
Silvie Harder
Michal Heliasz
Elyn Humphrey
Hiroki Ikawa
Pierre-Erik Isabelle
Hiroki Iwata
Rachhpal Jassal
Mika Korkiakoski
Juliya Kurbatova
Lars Kutzbach
Elena Lapshina
Anders Lindroth
Mikaell Lofvenius
Annalea Lohila
Ivan Mammarella
Philip Marsh
Paul Moore
Trofim Maximov
Daniel Nadeau
Erin Nicholls
Mats Nilsson
Takeshi Ohta
Matthias Peichl
Richard Petrone
Anatoly Prokushkin
William Quinton
Nigel Roulet
Benjamin Runkle
Oliver Sonnentag
Ian Strachan
Pierre Taillardat
Eeva-Stiina Tuittula
Juha-Pekka Tuovinen
Jessica Turner
Masahito Ueyama
Andrej Varlagin
Timo Vesala
Martin Wilmking
Vyacheslav Zyrianov
Resource Date:
October
2020
Peatlands and forests cover large areas of the boreal biome and are critical for global climate regulation. They also regulate regional climate through heat and water vapour exchange with the...
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Authors
L.M. McKinnon
A.K. Mitchell
A. Vyse
In forestry, the purpose of site preparation is to ameliorate environmental conditions which limit tree seedling survival and growth. In subalpine and boreal forests, low soil temperature in...
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Ten years after restoration was implemented at the Bois-des-Bel peatland (BdB) in Quebec, there was limited hydrological connectivity between the regenerated Sphagnum moss and the remnant cutover peat...
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Majid Iravani
Monica Kohler
Shannon White
The results showed a pronounced variation in the historic supply of soil organic carbon and aboveground biomass in the watershed. Land management resulted in a diverse range of gains or losses.
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Reclamation of the land surface is what makes non-renewable resource developments sustainable. We must continue to strive to improve our science so that we can prove to regulators and the public that
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Authors
Kristine Haynes
Jessica Smart
Brenden Disher
Olivia Carpino
William Quinton
Resource Date:
December
2020
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
As of 2010, human footprint in the Active In-situ Region was 7.7%, whereas it was 20.8% in the Mineable Region. Total human footprint in all Woodland Caribou ranges increased between 2007 and 2010
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
As of 2012, the total human footprint across the OSR was 13.8%. Energy footprint covered 2.2% of the OSR. The total human footprint in the OSR increased from 11.3% to 13.8% between 1999 and 2012.
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Authors
Karen Cannon
Sandra Landsburg
Topsoil stripping of forested soils and its subsequent replacement would result in horizon characteristics similar to those of the plough depth resulting from farming practices
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Bolter Parish Trimble Ltd.
Ducks Unlimited (Canada)
Tom Peters and Associates
K.C. Mackenzie Associates Ltd.
Stewart Weir Stewart Watson & Heinrichs
Contains the following chapters: Environment Characteristics and Conditions; Soils; Wildlife; and Human Settlement Pattern of the Expanded Study Area
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Authors
Emma Bocking
David Cooper
Johnathan Price
Resource Date:
November
2017
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...