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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.
Items in this Collection
- 1Boreal forests
- 1Coal mine reclamation
- 1Forest growth
- 1Reclamation
- 1Reclamation of land--alberta
- 1Salinity gradient
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Boreal trees can grow on saline sites – implications for reclamation success on saline soils
Download2015-03-04
Soils from oil sands mining can be affected by salts leached from tailings or overburden materials – resulting in saline soil conditions. As a result, re-establishment of forests on saline sites is an important goal on reclaimed oil sands mines. Forest vegetation is typically thought to be...
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Deeper soil salvaging depths produce greater cover of native plants than shallow salvage depths on a reclaimed coal mine site
Download2015-12-01
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...