@article {52170,
	title = {Effects of eroding oil sand and periodic flooding on benthic macroinvertebrate communities in a brown-water stream in northeastern Alberta Canada},
	volume = {57},
	year = {1979},
	pages = {8 pages },
	publisher = {Canadian Journal of Zoology },
	abstract = {
The portion of the Steepbank River which cuts through the Athabasca oil sands deposit supported a less diverse benthic invertebrate community than did upstream areas. The variety and relative abundance of Plecoptera and Trichoptera were consistently lower in the area of oil sand exposure. As a substrate for benthic invertebrates, oil sand appears to be analogous to bedrock, supporting about 60\% as many animals per unit area as adjacent rubble substrates. Burrowingand negatively phototropicorganisms were significantly less abundant on oil sand than on rubble. When high discharge of the Athabasca River flooded a riffle to form a pool near the mouth of the Steepbank, rheophilic forms, such as Barfis and Sin~uliutnw, e!-e largely eliminated from the rime and benthic standing stocks were reduced by about 50\%. The invertebrate community recovered quickly after rifRe conditions returned.},
	keywords = {Athabasca River, federal government, invertebrates, tributaries},
	url = {http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/z79-063},
	author = {Barton, D. R. and Wallace, R. R.}
}
