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Restoring Native Grassland Function in Urban Environment: Implications for Soil-Plant Relations
DownloadFall 2013
The area of rough fescue prairie has been reduced in Western Canada because of human activities. Larch Park is an Edmonton residential development area to which land reclamation and restoration ecology have been applied to rebuild natural grasslands instead of turf grasses. By using salvaged...
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Roots in reconstructed soils - how land reclamation practices affect the development of tree root systems
DownloadSpring 2018
Tree root systems are incredibly complex organs that fulfill several vital functions, the main ones being anchorage and uptake of water and mineral elements. They perform these functions in a highly complex and challenging soil environment with heterogeneously distributed soil resources, physical...
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2020-03-19
Drozdowski, Bonnie, Bachmann, Victor, Thacker, Sarah
A root assessment at select locations across the Aurora Soil Capping Study site was completed in October 2018 to determine if rooting patterns and distribution could be used to explain observed variation in above-ground tree growth. The variation in above-ground tree growth included patterns of...
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Spring 2015
Surface mining activities cause severe adverse effects on soils. Scientists across the world have used different physical, chemical and biological reclamation techniques to recover mining disturbed areas. The effectiveness and efficiency of reclamation techniques is crucial to reclamation...
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The role of microtopography in vegetation colonization and early forest development on mine reclamation sites
DownloadSpring 2023
Microsite heterogeneity is an important variable that drives biodiversity in forests. Current forest reclamation practices often do not incorporate site heterogeneity in their practices which might pose a challenge to the reclamation goals of restoring disturbed sites to resilient and sustainable...
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Tree Growth on Reclaimed Overburden Sites Containing Petroleum Hydrocarbons at the Suncor Base Mine
Download2018-08-01
Paragon Soil and Environmental Consulting Inc.
Paragon Soil and Environmental Consulting Inc. (Paragon) was contracted to complete a field program and analysis for the Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) Joint Industry Project (JIP) partners Syncrude Canada Limited (Syncrude), Imperial Oil Resources Limited (Imperial), Canadian...
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Trembling aspen seedling establishment, growth and response to fertilization on contrasting soils used in oil sands reclamation.
Download2012
Landhäusser, S. M., Chow, P. S., MacKenzie, M. D., Pinno, B. D., Quideau, S. A.
Trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) is an important tree species for land reclamation. This study determined trembling aspen germination, establishment, initial growth and response to fertilizer on contrasting oil sands reclamation soils. In a greenhouse, eight soils varying in total nitrogen...