ACRRE Research Notes
Outreach and application of knowledge is a key component of ACRRE’s mandate. ACRRE is committed to disseminating the key findings of its researchers in formats that are highly relevant and widely accessible to the industry and government partners who need them. These research notes summarize the management implications of key research papers published by ACRRE research teams.
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Deeper soil salvaging depths produce greater cover of native plants than shallow salvage depths on a reclaimed coal mine site
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Landhäusser, S., Macdonald, E.
The forest understory serves as a key source of plant diversity and plays an important role in various forest processes. However, re-establishment of the forest understory community has proven challenging when using conventional reclamation techniques because of limited availability of native...
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Protecting forest floor in place rather than stripping it off is a better strategy to regenerated temporary drilling pads
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In situ extraction of oil sands reserves requires the production of many temporary exploration drilling pads to assess the bitumen layer. In these operations the forest floor and topsoil can be stripped off, stockpiled and replaced after drilling. As a result, many of these pads are slow to...
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Soil salvage depth is key to aspen root fragment survival and sucker regeneration in forest reclamation
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When clearing mine sites for development, forest floor material is salvaged and often directly placed onto nearby reclamation sites. Soils salvaged from aspen forests have significant quantities of root fragments contained in these materials. Aspen roots are known to produce aspen suckers...