@article {24884,
	title = {Wetlands baseline for Project Millennium},
	year = {1998},
	note = {Consultant commissioned by Suncor Inc. Oil Sands Group. Final report on wetlands baseline for Project Millennium},
	abstract = {This document details the Wetlands Resources within the Local and Regional Study Areas for Suncor Energy Inc. Project Millennium in support of an Environmental Impact Assessment. The study area wetlands are described and classified using the methodology of the Alberta Wetlands Inventory. Beckinham and Archibalds wetlands classification system was used as the basis for the floristic analysis and initial classification of the wetlands types. The objectives of this document were to: describe the lowland or wetlands types within the Project Millennium local and regional study areas; to assess wetland diversity within the local and regional study areas; to provide a wetlands component to the Ecological Land Classification; and to provide a basis for wetlands reclamation, research and monitoring. For the regional study area, Landsat Thematic Mapper Satellite imagery was used as a basis for mapping. This was augmented by a helicopter survey in July 1997. For the local study area, wetlands were identified on 1996; 1:10,000 scale black and white aerial photographs. The aerial photographs were pre-stratified according to the Alberta Vegetation Inventory, which included Alberta Wetlands Inventory criteria. Vegetation surveys were taken in July and August 1997. Community level biodiversity was assessed by examining community richness, diversity and patch (map unit) size. The ranges of these parameters, or indices, are an expression of heterogeneity in wetlands within the local and regional study areas.},
	keywords = {ecological land classification, Lowland types, monitoring and TLU, Project Millennium, research, wetland types, wetlands diversity, wetlands reclamation}
}
