Abstract
Includes 10 papers from a symposium organized to review what is know about the ecological principles that will govern the ultimate success or failure of all reclamation efforts on drastically disturbed lands. The papers cover four general areas: soil biological properties and nutrient cycling; vegetation dynamics; animal recolinization; and landscape-scale processes.
Keywords
landscape ecology,
mine spoil,
plant succession,
reclamation,
soil fungi,
nutrients,
cycling,
revegetation,
disturbed land,
habitats
Citation
Chambers, Jeanne C.; Wade, Gary L.; [Editors] 1992. Evaluating reclamation success: the ecological consideration-proceedings of a symposium; 1990 April 23-26; Charleston, WV. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-164. Radnor, PA: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 107 p.