Effects of Landscape Age and Salinity on Plant Community Composition and Productivity in Opportunistic and Constructed Wetlands in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta ...
Wetlands comprise 65% of the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) surface mineable area and thus support diverse flora (approximately 400 species in Alberta). Due to increased anthropogenic land disturbance activities such as bitumen extraction, reclamation of surface mineable areas will also increase....
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ftdatacite:10.11575/prism/41754 2023-11-05T03:41:14+01:00 Effects of Landscape Age and Salinity on Plant Community Composition and Productivity in Opportunistic and Constructed Wetlands in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta ... Mombourquette, Ashlee Dawn 2023 https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/41754 https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/116912 en eng Graduate Studies University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. vegetation community composition vegetation biomass wetland oil sands reclamation Ecology FOS Biological sciences article master thesis CreativeWork Other 2023 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.11575/prism/41754 2023-10-09T11:06:44Z Wetlands comprise 65% of the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) surface mineable area and thus support diverse flora (approximately 400 species in Alberta). Due to increased anthropogenic land disturbance activities such as bitumen extraction, reclamation of surface mineable areas will also increase. The resulting reclaimed areas will tend to be sodium-enriched compared to pre-disturbance landscapes. In this thesis, forty young (<40 years old) stratified-randomly selected wetlands were sampled on reclaimed landscapes at Syncrude’s Mildred Lake lease and from reference wetlands in adjacent areas in the AOSR to determine how salinity and age influence the vegetation community composition, and the biomass of six dominant wetland plant species (Carex aquatilis, Calamagrostis canadensis, Carex atherodes, Carex utriculata, Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, and Typha latifolia) found on reclaimed and reference landscapes. Wetland vegetation communities on reclaimed landscapes differed from those on reference ... Master Thesis Carex aquatilis DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Wetlands comprise 65% of the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) surface mineable area and thus support diverse flora (approximately 400 species in Alberta). Due to increased anthropogenic land disturbance activities such as bitumen extraction, reclamation of surface mineable areas will also increase. The resulting reclaimed areas will tend to be sodium-enriched compared to pre-disturbance landscapes. In this thesis, forty young (<40 years old) stratified-randomly selected wetlands were sampled on reclaimed landscapes at Syncrude’s Mildred Lake lease and from reference wetlands in adjacent areas in the AOSR to determine how salinity and age influence the vegetation community composition, and the biomass of six dominant wetland plant species (Carex aquatilis, Calamagrostis canadensis, Carex atherodes, Carex utriculata, Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, and Typha latifolia) found on reclaimed and reference landscapes. Wetland vegetation communities on reclaimed landscapes differed from those on reference ... |
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Effects of Landscape Age and Salinity on Plant Community Composition and Productivity in Opportunistic and Constructed Wetlands in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta ... |
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Effects of Landscape Age and Salinity on Plant Community Composition and Productivity in Opportunistic and Constructed Wetlands in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta ... |
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Effects of Landscape Age and Salinity on Plant Community Composition and Productivity in Opportunistic and Constructed Wetlands in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta ... |
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Effects of Landscape Age and Salinity on Plant Community Composition and Productivity in Opportunistic and Constructed Wetlands in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta ... |
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Effects of Landscape Age and Salinity on Plant Community Composition and Productivity in Opportunistic and Constructed Wetlands in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta ... |
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effects of landscape age and salinity on plant community composition and productivity in opportunistic and constructed wetlands in the athabasca oil sands region, alberta ... |
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