Reclamation strategies for mined forest soils and overstorey drive understorey vegetation

Every restoration is unique: testing year effects and site effects as drivers of initial restoration trajectories

(2017) Katharine L. Stuble et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Climate change-associated trends in net biomass change are age dependent in western boreal forests of Canada

(2016) Han Y. H. Chen et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The Contribution of Litterfall to Net Primary Production During Secondary Succession in the Boreal Forest

(2016) Han Y. H. Chen et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Positive species diversity and above-ground biomass relationships are ubiquitous across forest strata despite interference from overstorey trees

(2016) Yu Zhang et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Reclamation of boreal forest after oil sands mining: anticipating novel challenges in novel environments

(2015) Patrick Audet et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Forest restoration following surface mining disturbance: challenges and solutions

(2015) S. Ellen Macdonald et al.   NEW FORESTS

Temporal Trends of Ecosystem Development on Different Site Types in Reclaimed Boreal Forests

(2015) Bradley Pinno et al.   Forests

Textural interfaces affected the distribution of roots, water, and nutrients in some reconstructed forest soils in the Athabasca oil sands region

(2014) Kangho Jung et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Monitoring Cumulative Long-Term Vegetation Changes Over the Athabasca Oil Sands Region

(2014) Rasim Latifovic et al.   IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Dynamics of epiphytic macrolichen abundance, diversity and composition in boreal forest

(2014) Samuel F. Bartels et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Canopy closure exerts weak controls on understory dynamics: a 30-year study of overstory–understory interactions

(2013) Charles B. Halpern et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Soil water regimes of reclaimed upland slopes in the oil sands region of Alberta

(2012) J. Leatherdale et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Partitioning vascular understory diversity in mixedwood boreal forests: The importance of mixed canopies for diversity conservation

(2012) Virginia Chávez et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Forest productivity increases with evenness, species richness and trait variation: a global meta-analysis

(2012) Yu Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Interactions between overstorey and understorey vegetation along an overstorey compositional gradient

(2012) Samuel F. Bartels et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Plant Recruitment in Early Development Stages on Rehabilitated Quarries in Hong Kong

(2012) Hao Zhang et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Salinization of soil over saline-sodic overburden from the oil sands in Alberta

(2011) S. Kessler et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Tree diversity and environmental context predict herb species richness and cover in Germany's largest connected deciduous forest

(2011) Elke A. Vockenhuber et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Functional groups and dispersal strategies as guides for predicting vegetation dynamics on reclaimed mines

(2011) Josu G. Alday et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

How Does Restoration of Native Canopy Affect Understory Vegetation Composition? Evidence from Riparian Communities of the Hunter Valley Australia

(2011) Carla J. Harris et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Forest restoration, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

(2011) Raf Aerts et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Is understory plant species diversity driven by resource quantity or resource heterogeneity?

(2010) Samuel F. Bartels et al.   ECOLOGY

How understanding aboveground–belowground linkages can assist restoration ecology

(2010) Paul Kardol et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Factors affecting species diversity of plant communities and the restoration process in the loess area of China

(2009) Jin-Tun Zhang et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Associations between species and groups of sites: indices and statistical inference

(2009) Miquel De Cáceres et al.   ECOLOGY

FIRE, LOGGING, AND OVERSTORY AFFECT UNDERSTORY ABUNDANCE, DIVERSITY, AND COMPOSITION IN BOREAL FOREST

(2008) Stephen A. Hart et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Beyond Deforestation: Restoring Forests and Ecosystem Services on Degraded Lands

(2008) R. L. Chazdon   SCIENCE

Influence of tree species on understory vegetation diversity and mechanisms involved—A critical review for temperate and boreal forests

(2007) Stéphane Barbier et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT