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The combination of environmental stresses to which the Sudbury region has been subjected has led to a series of distinct zones of vegetation surrounding the smelters. Closest to the smelters is a 170-km2 zone of barren land that is nearly completely devoid of plant life. Adjoining the barrens is a 720-km2 semibarren area, a zone of transition between the barrens and the natural plant community of the region (see Chapter 2). The two zones, the barren zone and transition zone (Amiro and Courtin 1981), are the direct result of human activity, and neither is found naturally as a successional stage of the eastern hemlock-white pine-northern hardwood forest (Braun 1950) that was once typical of the area.
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Courtin, G.M. (1995). Birch Coppice Woodlands near the Sudbury Smelters: Dynamics of a Forest Monoculture. In: Gunn, J.M. (eds) Restoration and Recovery of an Industrial Region. Springer Series on Environmental Management. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2520-1_18
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