Plant community development following reclamation of oil sands mine sites in the boreal forest: a review

Reclamation strategies for mined forest soils and overstorey drive understorey vegetation

(2017) Han Y.H. Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Macrolichen diversity as an indicator of stand age and ecosystem resilience along a precipitation gradient in humid forests of inland British Columbia, Canada

(2016) André Arsenault et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Aftermath of Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak in British Columbia: Stand Dynamics, Management Response and Ecosystem Resilience

(2016) Amalesh Dhar et al.   Forests

Transfer of live aspen root fragments, an effective tool for large-scale boreal forest reclamation

(2015) Simon M. Landhäusser et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

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

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

Limiting factors for lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) and white spruce (Picea glauca) growth differ in some reconstructed sites in the Athabasca oil sands region

(2015) Min Duan et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Early successional plant community dynamics on a reclaimed oil sands mine in comparison with natural boreal forest communities

(2015) Ruth C. Errington et al.   ECOSCIENCE

Forest restoration following surface mining disturbance: challenges and solutions

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

Species interactions and random dispersal rather than habitat filtering drive community assembly during early plant succession

(2015) Werner Ulrich et al.   OIKOS

Early trajectories of forest understory development on reclamation sites: influence of forest floor placement and a cover crop

(2015) S. Ellen Macdonald et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Can environmental constraints determine random patterns of plant species co-occurrence?

(2015) Gonzalo García-Baquero et al.   Ecology and Evolution

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

(2015) Bradley Pinno et al.   Forests

Coarse Woody Debris Increases Microbial Community Functional Diversity but not Enzyme Activities in Reclaimed Oil Sands Soils

(2015) Jin-Hyeob Kwak et al.   PLoS One

Organic capping type affected nitrogen availability and associated enzyme activities in reconstructed oil sands soils in Alberta, Canada

(2014) G.M. Jamro et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Boreal mixedwood stand dynamics: ecological processes underlying multiple pathways

(2014) Yves Bergeron et al.   FORESTRY CHRONICLE

Managing the whole landscape: historical, hybrid, and novel ecosystems

(2014) Richard J Hobbs et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Environmental factors driving seed bank diversity in alkali grasslands

(2013) Orsolya Valkó et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Local and landscape factors affecting communities of plants and diurnal Lepidoptera in black coal spoil heaps: Implications for restoration management

(2013) Robert Tropek et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Anticipating the consequences of climate change for Canada’s boreal forest ecosystems

(2013) David T. Price et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

Depth of root placement, root size and carbon reserves determine reproduction success of aspen root fragments

(2013) Julia Wachowski et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Woody Debris Amendment Enhances Reclamation after Oil Sands Mining in Alberta, Canada

(2013) Robyn L. Brown et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Rebuilding Soils on Mined Land for Native Forests in Appalachia

(2013) Carl E. Zipper et al.   SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL

Topographically controlled soil moisture is the primary driver of local vegetation patterns across a lowland region

(2013) Jesper E Moeslund et al.   Ecosphere

Species-Driven Phases and Increasing Structure in Early-Successional Plant Communities

(2012) Markus K. Zaplata et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory

(2012) J. HilleRisLambers et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Regulatory history of Alberta's industrial land conservation and reclamation program

(2012) Chris Powter et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

The fate of herbaceous seeds during topsoil stockpiling: Restoration potential of seed banks

(2012) Desiree Rivera et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Pattern detection in null model analysis

(2012) Werner Ulrich et al.   OIKOS

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

(2012) Hao Zhang et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Forest floor development and biochemical properties in reconstructed boreal forest soils

(2011) P.T. Sorenson et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Mounding alters environmental filters that drive plant community development in a novel grassland

(2011) Nate Hough-Snee et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Importance of mixedwoods for biodiversity conservation: Evidence for understory plants, songbirds, soil fauna, and ectomycorrhizae in northern forests

(2011) Xavier Cavard et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

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

Field performance of alder-Frankia symbionts for the reclamation of oil sands sites

(2010) Elisabeth Lefrançois et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Vegetation succession on reclaimed coal wastes in Spain: the influence of soil and environmental factors

(2010) Josu G. Alday et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Does plantation forestry restore biodiversity or create green deserts? A synthesis of the effects of land-use transitions on plant species richness

(2010) Leah L. Bremer et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Understory species interactions in mature boreal mixedwood forests

(2010) Virginia Chávez et al.   Botany

Niche differentiation and neutral theory: an integrated perspective on shrub assemblages in a parkland savanna

(2010) C. J. Stokes et al.   ECOLOGY

Using biodiversity deconstruction to disentangle assembly and diversity dynamics of understorey plants along post-fire succession in boreal forest

(2010) Ermias T. Azeria et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Impact of reclamation of surface-mined boreal forest soils on microbial community composition and function

(2010) Pedro A. Dimitriu et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

Recolonization potential of bryophyte diaspore banks in harvested boreal mixed-wood forest

(2009) Richard T. Caners et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

The Role of the Forest Soil Propagule Bank in Assisted Natural Recovery after Oil Sands Mining

(2009) Dean D. Mackenzie et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Ecological Restoration in the Light of Ecological History

(2009) S. T. Jackson et al.   SCIENCE

Novel ecosystems: implications for conservation and restoration

(2009) Richard J. Hobbs et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The influence of aspect on the early growth dynamics of hydroseeded species in coal reclamation areas

(2008) J. González-Alday et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

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