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What is it with the natural world and complex chains of events? Nothing in ecology is ever simple or straightforward its all interconnected. While this illustrates the fragility of the ecosystem, it also results in some pretty cool chain reactions. Back in the summer of 2000, Erin Kelly, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta, had just started her research project looking at mercury concentrations in alpine lakes along an elevational gradient. When she showed up in Jasper National Park though, she got a big surprise. That July and August, an 1,100 hectare forest fire swept through the Moab Lake region, burning
The forest around Moab Lake burns during the summer of 2000. SUBMITTED PHOTO.
B abies of 2006
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