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The health of individual amphibians, amphibian populations, and their wetland habitats are monitored in the oil sands region and at reference locations. Contaminants assessments are done at all sites. Amphibians developing near oil sands activities may be exposed to concentrations of oil sands-related contaminants, through air emissions as well as water contamination. The focus of field investigations is to evaluate the health of wild amphibian populations at varying distances from oil sands operations. Wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) populations are being studied in Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories in order to examine the relationship of proximity to oil sands activities and to prevalence of infectious diseases, malformation rates, endocrine and stress responses, genotoxicity, and concentrations of heavy metals, naphthenic acids and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

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Name	Format	Description	Link
Amphibian and Wetland Health Contaminants and Toxicology Data (English)	CSV		http://donnees.ec.gc.ca/data/species/assess/amphibian-and-wetland-health-contaminants-and-toxicology-oil-sands-region/?lang=en
Amphibian and Wetland Health Contaminants and Toxicology Data (French)	CSV		http://donnees.ec.gc.ca/data/species/assess/amphibian-and-wetland-health-contaminants-and-toxicology-oil-sands-region/?lang=fr
View ECCC Data Mart (English)	HTML		https://data-donnees.ec.gc.ca/data/species/assess/amphibian-and-wetland-health-contaminants-and-toxicology-oil-sands-region/
View ECCC Data Mart (French)	HTML		https://data-donnees.ec.gc.ca/data/species/assess/amphibian-and-wetland-health-contaminants-and-toxicology-oil-sands-region/?lang=fr

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