Can plant or lichen natural abundance 15N ratios indicate the influence of oil sands N emissions on bogs?

Study region: The 140,329 km2 Athabasca Oil Sands Administrative Area (OSAA), which contains 8982 km2 of bogs. Since the late 1970s, N emissions from oil sands development in the OSAA have steadily increased, reaching over 80,000 metric tonnes yr−1 in 2017. Study focus: If oil sands N emissions have...

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Main Authors: R. Kelman Wieder, Melanie A. Vile, Dale H. Vitt, Kimberli D. Scott, Bin Xu, James C. Quinn, Cara M. Albright
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-04-01
Series:Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221458182200043X