Environmental Conditions and Vegetation Recovery at Abandoned Drilling Mud Sumps in the Mackenzie Delta Region, Northwest Territories, Canada

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Johnstone, Jill F., Kokelj, Steven V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2009
• Subjects: disturbance; drilling mud sumps; low Arctic tundra; Mackenzie River delta; oil and gas exploration; permafrost; plant communities; vegetation classification; perturbation; bassins à boue de forage; basse toundra arctique; delta du fleuve Mackenzie; exploration pétrolière et gazière; pergélisol; peuplements de végétaux; classification de la végétation; Arctic; Canada; Fleuve Mackenzie; Kendall; Kendall Island; Kendall Island Bird Sanctuary; Mackenzie Delta; Mackenzie River; Northwest Territories; Arctique*; Mackenzie river; Territoires du Nord-Ouest; toundra; Tundra
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63104

Historical data from oil and gas exploration in the delta of the Mackenzie River, Northwest Territories, in the 1970s provided an opportunity to estimate decadal-scale impacts of exploratory oil and gas drilling on native plant communities in low Arctic tundra. We assessed changes in vegetation comp...