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Title: Impact of gold smelter emissions on vegetation and soils of a sub-Arctic forest-tundra transition ecosystem

Abstract

Surveys were conducted to determine the nature and extent of terrestrial contamination and effects on plant ecology resulting from air pollution in the Yellowknife area of Canada. The survey consisted of widespread sampling of vegetation and soils and a study of plant ecology in a forest stand and on a nearby rocky outcrop at numerous sites. Results indicate that the arsenic level in the soil and vegetation was attributed to gold smelters in an inverse square of the distance from the smelters in a monotonic pattern. In addition, it seems probable that the SO/sub 2/ has been primarily responsible for the depletion of lichens, since analysis of some living specimens indicated very high tolerance for arsenic.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Canadian Wildlife Service, Edmonton, Alberta
OSTI Identifier:
5269121
Report Number(s):
CONF-760654-
Journal ID: CODEN: PRAPA
Resource Type:
Conference
Journal Name:
Proc., Annu. Meet., Air Pollut. Control Assoc.; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 69; Conference: Annual meeting of air pollution control association, Portland, OR, USA, 27 Jun 1976
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; ARSENIC; ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; LICHENS; TOLERANCE; SMELTERS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TOXICITY; AIR POLLUTION; CANADA; SOILS; SURVEYS; ALGAE; CHALCOGENIDES; ELEMENTS; FUNGI; NORTH AMERICA; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PLANTS; POLLUTION; SEMIMETALS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SULFUR OXIDES; 500200* - Environment, Atmospheric- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (-1989); 510200 - Environment, Terrestrial- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (-1989); 560303 - Chemicals Metabolism & Toxicology- Plants- (-1987)

Citation Formats

Hocking, D, Kuchar, P, Plambeck, J A, and Smith, R A. Impact of gold smelter emissions on vegetation and soils of a sub-Arctic forest-tundra transition ecosystem. United States: N. p., 1976. Web.
Hocking, D, Kuchar, P, Plambeck, J A, & Smith, R A. Impact of gold smelter emissions on vegetation and soils of a sub-Arctic forest-tundra transition ecosystem. United States.
Hocking, D, Kuchar, P, Plambeck, J A, and Smith, R A. 1976. "Impact of gold smelter emissions on vegetation and soils of a sub-Arctic forest-tundra transition ecosystem". United States.
@article{osti_5269121,
title = {Impact of gold smelter emissions on vegetation and soils of a sub-Arctic forest-tundra transition ecosystem},
author = {Hocking, D and Kuchar, P and Plambeck, J A and Smith, R A},
abstractNote = {Surveys were conducted to determine the nature and extent of terrestrial contamination and effects on plant ecology resulting from air pollution in the Yellowknife area of Canada. The survey consisted of widespread sampling of vegetation and soils and a study of plant ecology in a forest stand and on a nearby rocky outcrop at numerous sites. Results indicate that the arsenic level in the soil and vegetation was attributed to gold smelters in an inverse square of the distance from the smelters in a monotonic pattern. In addition, it seems probable that the SO/sub 2/ has been primarily responsible for the depletion of lichens, since analysis of some living specimens indicated very high tolerance for arsenic.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5269121}, journal = {Proc., Annu. Meet., Air Pollut. Control Assoc.; (United States)},
number = ,
volume = 69,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1976},
month = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1976}
}

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