Benefits of fertilization for white spruce and lodgepole pine trees depend on the reclamation substrate – overburden vs tailings sand

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Chang, S.

• During reclamation of oil sands mines, overburden or tailings sand substrates are often capped with a peat mineral mix.
  These soils can exhibit a number of challenging properties, including low availability of water and nutrients such as nitrogen.
  Some trees planted on oil sands mines have started to show reduced growth and yellowed needles – signs of nitrogen deficiency. This study sought to determine the growth responses of white spruce and lodgepole pine to fertilization in reconstructed boreal forest soils.

• Date created

  2015-12-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Reclamation of land--alberta
  • Oil sands mines reclamation

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3FF3M15T

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International