Chloride inputs to the North Saskatchewan River watershed: the role of road salts as a potential driver of salinization downstream of North America's northern most major city (Edmonton, Canada)

Tracing nitrate sources with a combined isotope approach (δ15NNO3, δ18ONO3 and δ11B) in a large mixed-use watershed in southern Alberta, Canada

“…The numerical data in this study are typically presented as the mean ± standard deviation of the identified group. To illustrate spatial variation in NO3 and B concentrations in each river a change ratio was used (Meybeck 1998, Laceby et al 2019, dividing the solute concentration at each sampling site by the concentration measured at the most upstream sampling site of each river (i.e. BR1 and OM1).…”

How Does Mining Salinisation Gradient Affect the Structure and Functioning of Macroinvertebrate Communities?

“…To date, the impact of salinisation on benthic fauna has chiefly been studied only in running waters (e.g. Piscart et al 2005a, b;Velasco et al 2006;Kefford et al 2011;Piscart et al 2011;Schäfer et al 2011;Cañedo-Argüelles et al 2014Golovatyuk and Shitikov 2016;Gutiérrez-Cánovas et al 2019a;Laceby et al 2019;. Data on salinisation in anthropogenic water bodies is relatively rare (Williams 2001;Blasius and Merritt 2002).…”

Freshwater salinisation: a research agenda for a saltier world

“…Habitat connectivity plays a key role in environmental tracking (i.e., adaptation to environmental change at the community level) and therefore in either buffering (e.g., population maintenance due to mass effect) or favouring community differentiation (e.g., change in species pool) [57][58][59]. At the same time, connectivity may also contribute to negative impacts of FS by propagating it from a main source (e.g., basin-wide effects [118]) and this must therefore be considered since changes in the upstream chemical composition can be exported across a whole river catchment [119,120].…”