<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Savard, Martine M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Begin, Christian</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Marion, Joelle</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Modelling carbon isotopes in spruce trees reproduces air quality changes due to oil sands operations</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">air emissions</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">analytical methodology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">federal government</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">model</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">modeling</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">trees</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10/2014</style></date></pub-dates></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ecological Indicators </style></publisher><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">45</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">7 pages </style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Direct monitoring of air quality does not cover more than the last three decades in most industrialized countries. For that reason studies using growth-ring carbon isotopes (δ13C) of several species of trees have recently investigated isotopic responses in the contexts of stationary and diffuse pollution in humid continental conditions. Here, the growth-ring δ13C series (1880–2009) of spruce trees living in sub-humid subarctic conditions were measured to assess if they represent indicators for air quality changes near oil sands (OS) developments initiated in northeastern Alberta in 1967. The measured δ13C pre-operation rings at two forest sites were analyzed along local climatic conditions to develop response-to-climate statistical models and predict the natural isotopic behaviour for the most recent part of the ring series. The measured trends and climate-modelled (natural) δ13C values strongly depart during the operation period, depicting anomalies which can be nicely reproduced by multiple regression models combining climate and a proxy for OS airborne emissions. This research allows envisioning the use of carbon dendroisotopic indicators to compensate for the lack of long-term air quality measurement, and monitor environmental conditions in the sub-humid terrestrial ecosystem exposed to emissions from oil sands operations which are predicted to increase in the future.</style></abstract><custom2><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">northeastern Alberta </style></custom2><custom3><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5900250063</style></custom3><custom4><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">OSEMB</style></custom4></record></records></xml>