Use of pre-industrial baselines to monitor anthropogenic enrichment of metals concentrations in recently deposited sediment of floodplain lakes in the Peace-Athabasca Delta (Alberta, Canada)

• Published in: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
• Main Authors: Owca, Tanner J., Kay, Mitchell L., Faber, Jelle, Remmer, Casey R., Zabel, Nelson, Wiklund, Johan A., Wolfe, Brent B., Hall, Roland I.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Springer International Publishing 2020
• Subjects: Article; Athabasca River; Canada; Peace-Athabasca Delta
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6954137/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31925547; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-020-8067-y

Well-designed monitoring approaches are needed to assess effects of industrial development on downstream aquatic environments and guide environmental stewardship. Here, we develop and apply a monitoring approach to detect potential enrichment of metals concentrations in surficial lake sediments of t...