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Long-term development of vegetation communities at four past-producing B.C. mine-sites Binns, John Brailsford

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Few long-term ( > 15 years) studies of vegetation communities on past-producing mine-sites have been carried out. Considerable effort goes into test-plot experiments to design re-vegetation programs prior to termination of production but usually little monitoring has been done after mining operations cease. In addition, little is known from test plots of the long-term effect of competitive interactions between seeded/planted species themselves and between seeded/planted species and invading native species. The present study revisited and repeated some of the scientific studies carried out at four minesites during the period 1973-1978 by Ministry of Energy, Mines & Petroleum Resources (MEMPR) and/or University of British Columbia. (UBC) On-site studies carried out during the 1993 field season included soil sampling and visual measurements of plant species and population density. Mine-sites were in different biogeoclimatic locations and at each mine, sample sites varied by type of waste material. Results show an expected variation between mine-sites under different biogeoclimatic regimes and less predictable development of the plant community over a 17-19 year period at individual mine-sites. This study was carried out by the author as part of an M.Sc. thesis project studying natural regeneration of vegetation at past-producing mine-sites.

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Long-term development of vegetation communities at four past-producing B.C. mine-sites
Creator
Binns, John Brailsford
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British Columbia Mine Reclamation Symposium; University of British Columbia. Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering
Date Issued
1994
Description
Few long-term ( > 15 years) studies of vegetation communities on past-producing mine-sites have been carried out. Considerable effort goes into test-plot experiments to design re-vegetation programs prior to termination of production but usually little monitoring has been done after mining operations cease. In addition, little is known from test plots of the long-term effect of competitive interactions between seeded/planted species themselves and between seeded/planted species and invading native species. The present study revisited and repeated some of the scientific studies carried out at four minesites during the period 1973-1978 by Ministry of Energy, Mines & Petroleum Resources (MEMPR) and/or University of British Columbia. (UBC) On-site studies carried out during the 1993 field season included soil sampling and visual measurements of plant species and population density. Mine-sites were in different biogeoclimatic locations and at each mine, sample sites varied by type of waste material. Results show an expected variation between mine-sites under different biogeoclimatic regimes and less predictable development of the plant community over a 17-19 year period at individual mine-sites. This study was carried out by the author as part of an M.Sc. thesis project studying natural regeneration of vegetation at past-producing mine-sites.
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Conference Paper
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Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2010-02-17
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0042243
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/20348
Affiliation
Applied Science, Faculty of; Mining Engineering, Keevil Institute of; Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES), Institute for
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Other
Copyright Holder
British Columbia Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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