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Redevelopment of biological activity in stripmine spoils: saprotrophic fungi – abstract

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

Suzanne Visser
Suzanne Visser
Affiliation:
Kananaskis Centre for Environmental Research, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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The impact of severe soil disturbance on soil fungal community composition and function and how this relates to the resultant decomposition/mineralisation process is very poorly understood. Consequently, research was conducted to determine: (a) to what degree fungal community structure and potential function are altered in a sub-alpine coal mine spoil (Luscar, Alberta), and (b) how do alterations in the fungal community affect patterns of fungal colonisation and decomposition of plant residues deposited on recently mined soil.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 94: Fungi and Ecological Disturbance , 1988 , pp. 85
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1988

References

Visser, S. 1985. Management of microbial processes in surface mined land reclamation in Western Canada. In Soil Reclamation Processes: Microbiological Analyses and Applications, eds. Tate, R. L. & Klein, D. A., pp. 203–241. New York: Marcel Dekker.Google Scholar