scholarly journals Coarse Woody Debris as a Land Reclamation Amendment at an Oil Sands Mining Operation in Boreal Alberta, Canada

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 1640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley Pinno ◽  
Sanatan Das Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Coarse Woody Debris ◽  
Oil Sands ◽  
Land Reclamation ◽  
Woody Debris ◽  
Mining Operation ◽  
Oil Sands Mining

scholarly journals Coarse Woody Debris Increases Microbial Community Functional Diversity but not Enzyme Activities in Reclaimed Oil Sands Soils

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. e0143857 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin-Hyeob Kwak ◽  
Scott X. Chang ◽  
M. Anne Naeth ◽  
Wolfgang Schaaf
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Community ◽  
Functional Diversity ◽  
Coarse Woody Debris ◽  
Enzyme Activities ◽  
Oil Sands ◽  
Woody Debris

Coarse woody debris extract decreases nitrogen availability in two reclaimed oil sands soils in Canada

2015 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
pp. 13-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin-Hyeob Kwak ◽  
Scott X. Chang ◽  
M. Anne Naeth ◽  
Wolfgang Schaaf
Keyword(s):  
Coarse Woody Debris ◽  
Oil Sands ◽  
Nitrogen Availability ◽  
Woody Debris

Reclamation of boreal forest after oil sands mining: anticipating novel challenges in novel environments

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 364-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Audet ◽  
Bradley D. Pinno ◽  
Evelyne Thiffault
Keyword(s):  
Boreal Forest ◽  
Oil Sands ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Restoration Ecology ◽  
Land Reclamation ◽  
Anthropogenic Impacts ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Novel Ecosystems ◽  
Natural Ecosystems ◽  
Oil Sands Mining

Boreal forests in northern Alberta have a growing anthropogenic footprint due to a rapidly growing oil sands mining industry. Although land reclamation is a necessary aspect of responsible industrial development, these activities nearly always affect higher order landscape components such as the broader landform, and its hydrology and biogeochemistry. Recent anthropogenic impacts are then believed to result in new environmental conditions and obstacles under which the boreal forest is developing, potentially leading to irreversibly different environments that could be characterized as novel ecosystems. Reflecting an emerging trend across the field of restoration ecology, these novel ecosystems are not necessarily undesirable. Instead, they are an unavoidable consequence of pervading anthropogenic effects on natural ecosystems. It is our view that successful reclamation outcomes can still be derived so long as policy and regulatory requirements are afforded the necessary scope and economic flexibility to account for the development of hybrid and novel ecosystems among highly disturbed mine sites. Hence, this analysis seeks to situate current and anticipated challenges affecting the reclamation of boreal forest following oil sands mining by describing (i) how regulatory criteria shape reclamation practices and targeted end goals and (ii) how these approaches embody latest trends and priorities in the area of restoration ecology.

Woody Debris Amendment Enhances Reclamation after Oil Sands Mining in Alberta, Canada

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn L. Brown ◽  
M. Anne Naeth
Keyword(s):  
Oil Sands ◽  
Woody Debris ◽  
Oil Sands Mining

Improvements to production planning in oil sands mining through analysis and simulation of truck cycle times

CIM Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Goris Cervantes ◽  
S. P. Upadhyay ◽  
H. Askari-Nasab
Keyword(s):  
Production Planning ◽  
Oil Sands ◽  
Cycle Times ◽  
Oil Sands Mining
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