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An increasing number of studies have shown how feedback interactions between plants and soil can influence primary and secondary succession. However, ...

A low input, and hence low cost, approach to the establishment of vegetation on mine and coal ash wastes in semiarid regions is advocated and a specif...

Unreclaimed taconite mine tailings in Arizona, USA, were used as a mycorrhiza-free ecosystem to gain insights about the influence of vesicular-arbuscu...

The pioneer community on sand tailings areas in W. Malaysia contained a number of grasses and legumes, including Tricholaena rosea [= Rhynchelytrum re...

The serpentine tailings from asbestos mines in southeastern Quebec cover 5.5 km2 and are largely devoid of vegetation. The tailings have a high pH, ve...

Understorey vegetation accounts for the majority of plant diversity in boreal forest ecosystems and contributes to ecosystem functioning. In restorati...

The use of sewage sludge, horse dung, NPK-fertilizer, and NPK-fertilizer plus bark to improve yields of grasses and clover sown on iron-mine tailings ...

Metal mining in drylands generates waste tailings with high toxicity, physical instability, as well as water and thermal stresses that hamper their bi...

Plant facilitation, an ecological interaction that benefits at least one species without harming the other, is increasingly used as a restoration tool...

A study of naturally colonizing Betula pubescens and B. pendula on 10-yr-old soil cover up to 1 m deep on a 32-ha tailing near Garpenberg, Sweden. The...