Evaluating Reclamation Success: The Ecological Consideration

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Evaluating Reclamation Success: The Ecological Consideration Presented at the American Society for Surface Mining and Reclamation (ASSMR)

Based on a session of invited papers presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Surface Mining and Reclamation (ASSMR), April 23-26, 1990 at Charleston, West Virginia. Editors: Jeanne C. Chambers and Gary L. Wade

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• Evaluating Reclamation Success: The Ecological Consideration - Proceedings of a Symposium (23.9 MB)

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• Cover page, Abstracts, Table of Contents, and Introduction (1.63 MB)
• Soil Biological Properties and Nutrient Cycling (5.75 MB)
• Vegetation Dynamics (7.76 MB)
• Animal Recolonization (6.07 MB)
• Landscape-Scale Processes (3.12 MB)
• Synthesis (3.42 MB)