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The objective of the study was to identify native plant species that have demonstrated revegetation potential on industrial disturbances that are some of the oldest in northern Canada. Given the nature of the study area, and the disturbances, these were species colonizing primary successional sites that had never been subjected to reclamation treatments.
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Peter Kershaw, G. (2003). Long-Term Tundra Disturbances: Successful Colonizers. In: Rasmussen, R.O., Koroleva, N.E. (eds) Social and Environmental Impacts in the North: Methods in Evaluation of Socio-Economic and Environmental Consequences of Mining and Energy Production in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic. NATO Science Series, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1054-2_12
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