Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Alberta Soils Advisory Committee
Land disturbances due to resource extraction and transport are intended to be only temporary disruptions to the normal use of land for food and fiber production or for recreation. Although no two...
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Physical properties of soils and mined materials in relation to reclamation; Chemical properties of soils and methods of improving mined material for plant growth; Sulphur deposition and acidification
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Len Knapik
Katherine Bessie
E. Richardson
Soil patterns in the area are generally quite simple, with large homogeneous soil units. The major criteria for differentiating soils are parent material and drainage conditions.
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Soils were inspected and described at 413 sites. Soils of the Luvisolic, Brunisolic, Gleysolic, Cryosolic and Organic Orders were recognized and characterized. depth of peat is
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Larry Turchenek
J.D. Lindsay
Recurring patterns of soils, landforms, and vegetation were delineated. The information was transferred first to 1:50,000 preliminary maps and then to eight 1:126,720 maps which accompany this report
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Larry Turchenek
J.D. Lindsay
Soil morphology, site descriptions, and physical and chemical data for 130 soil profiles from the AOSERP study area are presented.
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Provide information on the kinds, characteristics, and distribution of soils in 16 permanent sample plots, each of about 5 ha area, established during 1981
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Emily Ury
Puvaanah Arrumugam
Ellen Herbert
Pascal Badiou
Bryan Page
Nandita Basu
Resource Date:
April
2023
Wetland restoration is a popular nutrient management strategy for improving water quality in agricultural catchments. However, a wetland’s ability to retain phosphorus is highly variable and wetlands...
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Spring-staging totals for two surveys for this year were 1000 and 3600 ducks. Five fall-staging surveys revealed a total of from 11 000 to 24 000 ducks.
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Mélina Guêné-Nanchen
Benoit-St-Hilaire
In light of the many potential benefits of Sphagnum farming and interest from the Canadian horticultural peat industry, some research projects to test small-scale Sphagnum farming approaches were...
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Patricio Pacheco-Cancino
Rubén Carrillo-López
Armando Sepulveda-Jauregui
Marcelo Somos-Valenzuela
Mosses of the genus Sphagnum are the dominant vegetation in most pristine peatlands in temperate and high-latitude regions. They play a crucial role in carbon sequestration, being responsible for ca...
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Stephen Moran
John Cherry
In reconstructing the landscape during reclamation the sequence and methods of placement of overburden material determine the post-mining subsurface-water chemistry. The type of material at various...
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Oil Sands Research and Information Network
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
Develop common understanding of the current knowledge regarding groundwater resources, groundwater-surface water interactions in the oil sands area, ongoing applied research, monitoring and impacts
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Road networks, both temporary and permanent, are necessary for accessing natural resources in the boreal forest. Forest roads can alter hydrology by 1) affecting the movement of water 2) reducing the...
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Alberta Health, Environmental Health Services Division
presents the summary of water quality in the Athabasca River during six sampling surveys (including a site at Fort McMurray, Tar Island, above G.G.O.S.)
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Alberta Health, Environmental Health Services Division
Water quality in the Athabasca River and tributaries was found to be generally acceptable throughout the winter of 1969/70. However, relatively high odor and colour values were observed on occasions
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Consultants were requested to carry out preliminary studies to determine the technical feasibility and estimated cost of constructing a dam on the Athabasca River in the vicinity of Crooked Rapids.
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Life history information and location data for the 672 fish, of 17 species, collected from rivers lakes are presented in table format
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Laminated root rot caused by the fungus Phellinus weirii is one of the most important root diseases of conifers in western North America. This short note discusses the susceptibility of western...
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S.S. Malhotra
Paul Addison
A.A. Khan
A number of coniferous and deciduous species that had been growing on the Suncor tailings sand dike for five to seven years were fumigated with 0.34 ppm SO2 under controlled environmental conditions