Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Jay Woosaree
Brij Verma
Byron James
Phytoremediation, the use of plants to remove, degrade or stabilize sites contaminated with organic or toxic chemicals is gaining in popularity as an alternative and economical technique in...
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Wetland Knowledge Exchange
Resource Date:
November
2023
Cassandra Chabot-Madlung, County of Grande Prairie presents - Wetland Replacement Program: How it Started & Who Can Participate This is a Municipal viewpoint of Alberta Environment and Protected Areas...
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Richard Johnson
P. Bork
E.A.D. Allen
W.H. James
L. Koverny
The experiments detailed in this report show that it was possible to increase the solids content of sludge to 50% solids by adding three parts sand (tailings sand) to one part sludge.
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Paul Moore
Benjamin Didemus
Alexander Furukawa
James Waddington
Resource Date:
March
2021
A critical ‘threshold’ peat depth specific for different hydrogeological and hydroclimatic regions can be used to assess what peatlands are especially vulnerable to climate change mediated drought.
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Camille Defrenne
Jessica Moore
Colin Tucker
Louis Lamit
Evan Kane
Randall Kolka
Rodney Chimner
Jason Keller
Erik Lilleskov
Drainage-induced encroachment by trees may have major effects on the carbon balance of northern peatlands, and responses of microbial communities are likely to play a central mechanistic role. We...
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G.R. Hillman
J.D. Johnson
S.K. Takyi
Three experimental forest drainage sites were established in Alberta’s boreal forest to determine the effects of lowered water tables on soils, local hydrology, ground vegetation composition and tree...
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In 1986, a field trial was established near Second Falls, N.B. to assess the potential of using pulpmill wood waste as a soil ameliorant for land reclamation. Three types of wood waste were spread on...
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Paul Jefferson
Paul McCaughey
Ken May
Jay Woosaree
Linden McFarlane
The utilization of native grass species for potential biomass feedstocks of the emerging ethanol industry requires more information about their cellulose and hemicellulose concentration. Ten native...
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Shauna-Lee Chai
Amy Nixon
Scott Nielsen
Assessed 16 potentially new invasive plant species not yet present in Alberta for their invasiveness and climate change-related risk
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From 1981 to 1984, nineteen experimental plantations were established on a range of eight typical reforested sectors in seven regions of Quebec. Included in the experiments, which took place during...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Resource Date:
January
2020
Linear features, including seismic lines, pipelines, transmission lines, roads, railways, and trails are pervasive in Alberta’s boreal forest and have been implicated as a primary factor leading to...
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Terry Macyk
Martin Fung
Ron Pauls
Syncrude Canada Ltd. produces 200,000 barrels of synthetic crude oil per day from its oil sands surface mining operations located 50 km north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. The three major types of...
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Terry Macyk
Vern Albush
O. Terry
In 1992 the Alberta Research Council initiated a reclamation study at the Smoky River Coal Limited No. 12 Mine South area located northwest of Grande Cache, Alberta. The objective of the research is...
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Mar Martinez
Gary Borstad
Leslie Brown
Kaan Ersahin
Michael Henley
Monitoring of reclaimed sites is a complex, interdisciplinary undertaking, especially in large, disturbed areas with difficult access. In that context, remote sensing is a unique and valuable tool...
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Diesel invert wastes are one of the more difficult types of drilling mud wastes to dispose of due to the presence of hydrocarbons and salts. In 1989 a joint research program funded by the Alberta...
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Provides recommendations based on the field survey and ground checking, for developing methodologies to enhance the detail on 1:50 000 vegetation maps (preliminary vegetation community classification)
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Robert Danielson
Suzanne Visser
Associated with the roots of silver-berry and buffalo-berry are two symbionts the N2-fixing actinomycete, Frankia, and the vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) fungi.
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Jay Woosaree
Bruce Anderson
Reclamation in the oil sands in Alberta is a high priority and can be challenging. Suncor Energy is in the process of reclaiming one of its consolidated tailings (CT) ponds (Pond 5). The CT is being...
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Ronny Seidel
Ullrich Dettmann
Bärbel Tiemeyer
Peat and other organic soils (e.g., organo-mineral soils) show distinctive volume changes through desiccation and wetting. Important processes behind volume changes are shrinkage and swelling. There...
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Surya Acharya
Barbara Darroch
Reinhard Hermesh
Jay Woosaree
Alpine bluegrass [Poa alpina L.] and slender wheatgrass [Elymus trachycaulus (Link.) Gould ex Shinners] accessions from alpine and subalpine regions of the Canadian Rocky Mountains and eastern...