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Improving Insights on Air Pollutant Mixtures and Their Origins by Enhancing L...
An “event-based” approach to characterize complex air pollutant mixtures was applied in the Oil Sands region of northern Alberta, Canada. This approach was developed to... -
Lake-sediment record of PAH, mercury, and fly-ash particle deposition near co...
We report a historical record of atmospheric deposition in dated sediment cores from Hasse Lake, ideally located near both currently and previously operational coal-fired power... -
Tracing nitrate sources with a combined isotope approach (δ15NNO3, δ18ONO3 an...
Rapid population growth and land-use intensification over the last century have resulted in a substantial increase in nutrient loads degrading marine and freshwater ecosystems... -
Prevalence, levels and seasonal variations of human enteric viruses in six ma...
The prevalence and seasonal variation of 7 viruses in 6 major rivers in Alberta were assessed using a combination of qPCR, cell culture and integrated cell culture with qPCR... -
Multiple threats and stressors to the Athabasca River Basin: What do we know ...
Over the last five decades, the Athabasca River Basin in Alberta, Canada, has been subjected to a wide range of environmental stressors from diverse human developments. This has... -
Environmental archives of atmospheric Hg deposition – A review
Environmental archives offer an opportunity to reconstruct temporal trends in atmospheric Hg deposition at various timescales. Lake sediment and peat have been the most widely... -
Quantifying seasonal succession of phytoplankton trait‐environment associatio...
Integration of species traits in direct gradient analysis generates insights into how communities are assembled and may respond to environmental changes. We investigated... -
Atmospheric drivers of winter above-freezing temperatures and associated rain...
Winter thaw episodes, especially when accompanied by rain, can significantly deplete the winter snowpack, which is a critical water storage component in the mountainous... -
Succession after reclamation: Identifying and assessing ecological indicators...
Site preparation for oil and gas extraction often requires the complete removal of vegetation and surface soil on the well pad. Although subsequent reclamation then attempts to... -
A spatial–temporal approach to modeling somatic growth across inland recreati...
We develop a mechanistically motivated von Bertalanffy growth model to estimate growth rate and its predictors from spatial–temporal data and compare this model’s performance... -
An empirical analysis of hunter response to chronic wasting disease in Alberta
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has impacted wildlife management in Canada. An integral partner in CWD management is the hunting community. This article empirically explored the... -
Biological Factors Moderate Trace Element Accumulation in Fish along an Envir...
Trace elements can accumulate in aquatic food webs, becoming potentially hazardous to wildlife and human health. Whereas many studies have examined mercury dynamics in... -
Effects of univariate and multivariate statistical downscaling methods on cli...
Statistical downscaling methods have been actively developed to improve the applicability of global climate models’ (GCMs) outputs to impact studies at a local scale. This study... -
Flows for floodplain forests: Conversion from an intermittent to continuous f...
The Little Bow River (LBR) in western Canada naturally displayed an intermittent flow regime; the channel dried up most summers, excluding the development of riparian woodlands... -
Investigating the Spatio-Temporal dynamics in the soil water storage in Alber...
Anomalous atmospheric conditions which, for the most part, manifest in the form of heavy precipitation events leading to the generation of pluvial or fluvial flooding in some... -
Mercury bioaccumulation in stream fish from an agriculturally-dominated water...
Bioaccumulation of mercury in freshwater fish is a complex process driven by environmental and biological factors. In this study, we assessed mercury in fish from four... -
Multiscale drivers of phytoplankton communities in north-temperate lakes
Multiple factors operating across different spatial and temporal scales affect β-diversity, the variation in community composition among sites. Disentangling the relative... -
Can soil invertebrates indicate soil biological quality on well pads reclaime...
Integrating soil physico-chemical properties and soil invertebrate bioindicators could prove a practical and robust method for assessing reclamation and soil biological quality... -
Tracing total and dissolved material in a western Canadian basin using qualit...
Highlights •The source dynamics of total and dissolved material were investigated. •Water quality monitoring data was modelled with Deconvolutional-MixSIAR. •A novel approach to... -
A Burning Question: What are the Implications of Forest Fires for Woodland Ca...
Canada's federal recovery strategy for boreal woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) classifies areas burned by forest fire as disturbed habitat. This assignment of fire...
