Effects of Landscape Age and Salinity on Plant Community Composition and Productivity in Opportunistic and Constructed Wetlands in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta ...

• Main Author: Mombourquette, Ashlee Dawn
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Graduate Studies 2023
• Subjects: vegetation community composition; vegetation biomass; wetland; oil sands; reclamation; Ecology; FOS: Biological sciences; Mildred Lake; Carex aquatilis
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/41754; https://ucalgary.scholaris.ca/handle/1880/116912

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....