Benthic Invertebrates, Oil Sands Region

Benthic invertebrates monitoring includes both lotic (rivers/streams) and lentic (wetlands) ecosystems. Aquatic biomonitoring provides a direct measure of change in biotic populations and communities in relation to benchmark or reference conditions and can help identify the ecological effects of cumulative stressors. Used together with the water chemical and physical monitoring components, this program uses an integrated approach to assess whether ecological affects are occurring in response to OS developments.

Sampling can include the collection of invertebrates, algal biomass, water chemistry, and appropriate supporting habitat information and is conducted during periods of high abundance and diversity of macroinvertebrates. Sampling focuses on near-shore gravel and sand habitats on the Athabasca River, erosional habitats on major tributaries and in wadable areas in deltaic wetlands within the Expanded Geographical Area. As of October 2012, over 80 locations have been visited.

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Date ( RI_367 )
2014-03-07
Date ( RI_366 )
2014-01-01
RI_415
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Joseph Culp ( Chief, Cumulative Effects and Biomonitoring Project, Watershed Hydrology and Ecology Research Division )
10 Bailey Drive, P.O. Box 4400 , Fredericton , E3B 5A3 , Canada
506-458-7458
506-458-7597
RI_419
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Donald Baird ( Research Scientist, Watershed Hydrology and Ecology Research Division )
10 Bailey Drive, P.O. Box 4400 , Fredericton , E3B 5A3 , Canada
506-458-7048
506-452-6271
RI_409
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Nancy Glozier ( Aquatic Ecosystems Scientist, Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance )
11 Innovation Blvd , Saskatoon , S7N 3H5 , Canada
306-975-6057
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • biomonitoring, oil sands, benthic invertebrates, organisms, macro-invertebrate water quality, rivers, streams, wetlands, geospatial information, nearshore gravel and sand, habitat conditions
theme.EC_Information_Category.rdf theme.EC_Information_Category.rdf ( RI_528 )
  • Water - Quality
theme.EC_Content_Scope.rdf theme.EC_Content_Scope.rdf ( RI_528 )
  • Observation/Measurement
theme.EC_Waf.rdf theme.EC_Waf.rdf ( RI_528 )
  • Assess Toxicity, Manage and Monitor for Environmental Presence of Hazardous Substances and Waste
  • Monitor / Assess Substance and Waste Levels in Air, Water, Soil, Biota
local.place.EC_Geographic_Scope local.place.EC_Geographic_Scope ( RI_525 )
  • Prairie - Alberta (AB)
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Aquatic ecosystems
  • Oil sands
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Spatial representation type
vector; vecteur RI_635
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Biota
Begin date
2011-08-01
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Reference system identifier
EPSG / EPSG:4326 /
RI_412
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Environment and Climate Change Canada ( Inquiry Centre )
10 Wellington, 23rd Floor , Gatineau , K1A 0H3 ,
819-997-2800
819-994-1412
http://ec.gc.ca
OnLine resource
Notes for Benthic Invertebrate Data (English) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

OnLine resource
Notes for Benthic Invertebrate Data (French) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Supporting Document;PDF;fra

OnLine resource
View ECCC Data Mart (English) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Web Service;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
View ECCC Data Mart (French) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Web Service;HTML;fra

OnLine resource
Benthic Invertebrates ( ESRI REST: Map Service )

Web Service;ESRI REST;eng

OnLine resource
Benthic Invertebrates ( ESRI REST: Map Service )

Web Service;ESRI REST;fra

OnLine resource
Benthic Invertebrates ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;eng

OnLine resource
Benthic Invertebrates ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;fra

File identifier
7ee53ca2-8dcd-432f-811e-c651f33055ed XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
series; série RI_623
Date stamp
2022-05-20T19:02:06
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_418
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Environment and Climate Change Canada ( Inquiry Centre )
10 Wellington, 23rd Floor , Gatineau , K1A 0H3 ,
819-997-2800
819-994-1412
http://ec.gc.ca
 
 

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