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- Title
A dying delta? A case study of a wetland paradigm.
- Authors
TIMONEY, KEVIN
- Abstract
Focuses on the Peace-Athabasca Delta, Canada, which is viewed as an ecosystem in decline. Impact of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam; Factors contributing to the lack of ecological understanding; Factors involved in the recent changes, or lack of changes, including climatic variation and change, normal wetland dynamism, stochasticity, flow regulation, weirs, dredging, avulsions and their prevention, influxes of weeds and contaminants, delta evolution, and cultural change; Comparison of the Peace Athabasca Delta to other major deltas in North America.
- Subjects
PEACE-Athabasca Delta (Alta.); ALBERTA; CANADA; DAMS; HYDRAULIC structures; WETLANDS; DELTAS; CLIMATE change
- Publication
Wetlands, 2002, Vol 22, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0277-5212
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1672/0277-5212(2002)022[0282:ADDACS]2.0.CO;2