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The epilithic microbial and micro-invertebrate communities under conditions of light and shade were studied from April to November 1978
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Aaron Sekerak
Gordon Walder
16-24 species of fish were found in each watershed. Forage fish (lake chub, pearl dace, longnose dace, trout-perch, brook stickleback, slimy sculpin) and white and longnose suckers were most abundant
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Aaron Sekerak
Gordon Walder
Maps showing fish collection locations, photos and details of the physical characteristics of nine streams within five watersheds (Firebag, Muskeg, Steepbank, MacKay, and Ells) in AOSERP study area
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Hal Hamilton
Ron Wallace
D. Westlake
Julia Foght
Barry Taylor
Steve Hrudey
Relationship between hydrocarbons present naturally, or introduced due to surface oil sands mining and upgrading activities, and their potential bioaccumulation and tainting of the commercial fishery
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During 1978, a number of aquatic projects were funded by AOSERP using a habitat inventory and mapping approach.
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T.W. Chamberlin
E.A. Harding
Philosophy and structure of aquatic system inventory as conducted by the BC Resource Analysis Branch. Additional topics included data management and examples of detailed interpretive projects
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During a recent public hearing regarding the future Point Lake open pit mine in the Northwest Territories, the Arctic Canadian Diamond Company declared intent to ensure the project does not negatively...
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This atlas is an attempt to translate and consolidate the available knowledge on permafrost. It is a timely book suffused with the compelling enthusiasm of its authors and contributors. Close to a...
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GRID-Arendal
Levi Westerveld
Tiina Kurvits
T. Schoolmeester
Oda Mulelid
Torjus Eckhoff
Pier Overduin
Michael Fritz
Hugues Lantuit
Björn Alfthan
A. Sinisalo
Frederieke Miesner
L.-K. Viitanen
NUNATARYUK Consortium
Resource Date:
October
2023
This atlas is an attempt to translate and consolidate the available knowledge on permafrost. It is a timely book suffused with the compelling enthusiasm of its authors and contributors. Close to a...
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American Pika populations in Alberta will likely be capable of persisting throughout this century, although their survival will depend increasingly on successful vertical migration.
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Kishan Sambaraju
Chantal Côté
Invasions of exotic forest insects and pathogens can devastate evolutionarily naïve habitats and could cause irreversible changes to urban and natural ecosystems. Given the ever-increasing volume of...
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Goals of this investigation were to describe the present hydrologic and sediment regimes and to predict the consequences of surface disturbances which precede oil sands mining using runoff plots.
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Mark Baah-Acheamfour
Jean-Marie Sobze
The longevity of seeds in storage is modulated by the initial quality as well as the storage conditions.
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures
With few exceptions, permeability across in situ developments was the main factor affecting caribou movement. Relationship was non-linear, suggesting a minimum threshold of permeability is needed
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures
Salmo Consulting
At current levels of industrial development, pipelines and linear features have a very small negative effect on caribou populations compared to the high levels of predation.
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There is an existing gap in knowledge on the economic impacts of caribou recovery measures on forestry activities and non-renewable resource extraction. To address this knowledge gap, this project...
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Alberta Forestry, Lands and Wildlife, Resource Planning Branch
To alleviate potential adverse effects on the environment from the proliferation of linear facilities, the multiple use corridor concept has been accepted by FLW as a feasible remedy
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Rod Olson
Bruce Thompson
Henry Bertram
Roy Peters
Determine changes in the input rate of atmospheric trace substances into sensitive ecosystems and provide a database for the documentation of variations in chemical characteristics of precipitation
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This report identifies historical, annual and open water, low flow sequences for 13 stations in the Athabasca River Basin which can be used to determine management guidelines for the River basin
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Monthly flows are provided for the period 1912 to 1980 at 21 locations on the Athabasca River and its major tributaries. The flow data sets are suitable for water management planning