Interim report on ecological studies on the benthic invertebrates of various rivers in the Alberta oil sands environmental research program study area, northeastern Alberta

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Wallace, R. R.
  • Barton, D. R.

• This report details preliminary experimental and survey research on benthic communities affected by selected hydrocarbons and tailings sludge produced by existing oil sands mining and upgrading operations. Taxonomic surveys of macrobenthic communities were carried out in the Muskeg and Steepbank river drainages concurrent with experimental manipulations.

• Date created

  1979

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Oil Sands
  • AOSERP
  • Surveys
  • Water Quality
  • Oil sands
  • Tailings
  • Tar sands
  • Invertebrates
  • AOSERP AF 2.0
  • Water Chemistry
  • Tar Sands
  • Alberta
  • Canada, Alberta, Fort McMurray

• Type of Item

  Report

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3T73V

• License

  This material is provided under educational reproduction permissions included in Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development's Copyright and Disclosure Statement, see terms at http://www.environment.alberta.ca/copyright.html. This Statement requires the following identification: \"The source of the materials is Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development http://www.environment.gov.ab.ca/. The use of these materials by the end user is done without any affiliation with or endorsement by the Government of Alberta. Reliance upon the end user's use of these materials is at the risk of the end user.