Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Cari Ficken
Danielle Cobbaert
Rebecca Rooney
Resource Date:
November
2019
Boreal wetlands are at risk of degradation from anthropogenic activities including oil sands energy extraction. Despite efforts to monitor the impacts of oil sands energy extraction-related activities...
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Seismic lines are slow to recover naturally, and many seismic lines need to be restored to contribute towards caribou recovery. Caribou predators use seismic lines to travel throughout caribou ranges...
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This ongoing project characterized changes and early responses in biodiversity and environmental conditions along seismic lines in relation to the adjacent forest.
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Over 500,000 oil and gas wells have been drilled in Alberta. Recently updated peatland restoration criteria for well-pads creates incentive for peatland restoration, but little is known about...
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Authors
Terry Osko
Clayton Gillies
Matthew Pyper
Resource Date:
February
2018
This report compiles a toolbox of shared practices currently in use by COSIA companies, or which have been used but were found to be unsuccessful.
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Resource Date:
April
2018
This document combines as-of-2017 reports for projects relating to mine site reclamation of the Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) Land Environmental Priority Area (EPA). These research...
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Authors
Karl Lamothe
Haibin Dong
Oscar Senar
Sonja Teichert
Irena Creed
David Kreutzweiser
Fiona Schmiegelow
Lisa Venier
The Canadian boreal zone provides ecosystem services from local to global scales. Either directly or indirectly, demands for these services have and will continue to serve as drivers of change in the...
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Authors
Eleanor Stern
Federico Riva
Scott Nielsen
Resource Date:
August
2018
Forest fragmentation threatens forest biodiversity and ecosystem function. One of the concerns relates to increases in edge effects, which among other things affects the forest microclimate that...
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Saline boreal fens represent potential models for post-mining landscape reclamation in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) (Canada) where wetland construction is challenged by salinization. One of...
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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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Resource Date:
April
2018
This presentation provides an introduction to the Boreal Water Futures program.
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Resource Date:
September
2018
Oil sands mining in Alberta has disturbed large areas of peatlands, the dominant regional ecosystem type, and no formal strategies exist to reconstruct the landscape. Peatland reclamation is...
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Resource Date:
November
2018
COSIA initiated this project to create an inventory of shared practices, improve knowledge sharing, clarify knowledge gaps, and identify opportunities for innovation.
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Resource Date:
January
2018
This presentation provides an overview of a long-term university-industry research partnership to improve understanding of peatland ecosystem function and reclamation techniques.
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Moderate to rich fens covered with tamarack and black spruce cover large areas of Alberta. These peatlands are nearly pH neutral and are characterized by hummock-hollow topography where the hummocks...
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Authors
Kimberley Murray
Melanie Bird
Bin Xu
This research poster discusses and compares various treatments to well pad sites as well as an overview of temporary and permanent linear features. Presented at the NAIT 7th Seminar on Linear...
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Resource Date:
April
2017
This document combines as-of-2016 reports for projects relating to mine site reclamation of the Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) Land Environmental Priority Area (EPA). These research...
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Authors
Stuart Slattery
Howie Singer
Susan Witherly
Llwellyn Armstrong
Glenn Mack
Jared Knockaert
Dave Howerter
This research poster discusses a study of linear feature impacts on settling and breeding of ducks in Alberta. Presented at the NAIT 7th Seminar on Linear Disturbance Impacts on Boreal Wetland...
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Authors
Anna Dabros
Jaime Pinzon
David Langor
Research poster presented at the NAIT 7th Seminar on Linear Disturbance Impacts on Boreal Wetland Ecosystems.
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Resource Date:
April
2017
The Guide for Reclaiming Aggregate and Borrow Excavations to Water Bodies (The Guide) was prepared for Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) and is a is a presentation of current knowledge...