Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Jean Birks
Yi Yi
Sunny Cho
Emily Taylor
John Gibson
This study was conducted to characterize the composition of polar dissolved organic compounds present in snow and surface waters in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) with the goal of identifying...
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Jean Birks
Yi Yi
Sunny Cho
John Gibson
Rod Hazewinkel
Goal was identifying whether atmospherically-derived organics present in snow are a significant contributor to the organics detected in rivers and lakes in the oil sands region
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D.W. Mayhood
Linda Corkum
Baseline data available on the Muskeg River hydrology, benthic invertebrates, plankton and fish are generally useful, but additional information is desireable
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D.W. Mayhood
Gerry Walder
Tom Dickson
R.B. Green
Dave Reid
R. Strushnoff
Studies intended to both monitor the effects of Alsands' muskeg drainage on aquatic habitats and terrestrial vegetation, and to form the basis of a long-term aquatic habitat monitoring program
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The present volume evaluates the 1980 monitoring program, and makes suggestions for the conduct of future monitoring studies on the Muskeg River and elsewhere in the AOSERP area
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This report is a condensed version of two reports on the chemistry of a variety of oil sands substrates from Syncrude, Suncor, OSLO and SolvEx.
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C.R. Neill
B.J. Evans
A.W. Lipsett
Describe how water and sediment from the Athabasca River are distributed through the delta system and how they circulate and mix in Lake Athabasca and flow through to the Slave River (re contaminants)
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Treatment and disposal procedures for oil sands tailings, as well as for clay tailings from other industries, are discussed and general background to the disposal problems is provided
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Tim Williamson
Steve Colombo
Peter Duinker
Paul Gray
Ryan Hennessey
Daniel Houle
Mark Johnston
Aynslie Ogden
Dave Spittlehouse
Climate change is already affecting Canada’s forests. Current visible effects include changes in the frequency and severity of disturbances (such as fires, drought, severe storms, and damaging insect...
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Jeff Fera
Daniel Gouge
Evelyne Thiffault
Nelson Thiffault
This fibre fact provides an overview of how salvage logging can provide an opportuntiy for the forest industry to supply Canada's bioeconomy with wood fibre as well as regenerate a forest.
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Climate change is an undeniable reality, and the boreal forest's response to accelerated global warming will surely have a major impact on forest ecosystems. The effect that higher concentrations of...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Vulnerability to climate change of more than 170 of Alberta’s native species is assessed on the basis of exposure and sensitivity to change
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Christopher Shank
Amy Nixon
This report provides a broad overview of how Alberta species are likely to be affected by climate change by the 2050s. Amphibians were consistently found to be the most vulnerable to climate change
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Randy Rudolph
M.M. Oleskiw
R.A. Stuart
Climatological analysis of recent data from the MAPS network of automatic meteorological data acquisition, forestry lookout stations, minisondes, pack surveys, and the Fort McMurray station
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Forest fire is the primary natural disturbance process influencing the distribution and abundance of terrestrial lichens across ranges of woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou), including the...
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Alex Schumacher
Reinhard Hermesh
Antoine Bedwany
The study involved an examination of the vegetation and spoils on five mine locations in the central Parkland of Alberta. These five locations represented different spoil types, and methods of mining...
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In regard to reclamation, the predisturbance inventories carried out as a function of the EIA or D&R Approval, dictate to a large extent the vegetation cover or land uses that will be established. As...
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Forest floor mineral soil mix had significantly greater soil microbial functional diversity than peat mineral soil mix. CWD increased microbial biomass and microbial functional diversity in both soil
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Alberta Environment and Parks
This code of practice regulates wetland restoration and wetland construction activities as defined in the Code by replacing Water Act approval requirements. Wetland restoration is applied to wetlands...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
We collected high-resolution aerial imagery and associated ground-truthed data from four sampling blocks in two caribou ranges to assess human footprint accuracy and state of vegetation recovery.