Significance of natural vegetation in abandoned gravel pits.
Contributors: Suffling, Roger.; Cavers, Paul B.; Symposium of the Canadian Botanical Association (1981 : Guelph, Ont.)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Quarries and quarrying -- Ontario.; Botany -- Ontario.; Revegetation -- Ontario.
Other titles: Revegetation of pits and quarries.
Description:   A wide variety (68) of vascular plant taxa were found on the five study slopes of abandoned gravel pits in southwestern Ontario.  A geometric, chemical and taxonomic description was made for each study slope.  The importance of microclimate and topography was also studied.
Notes: In : Revegetation of pits and quarries : paper presented at a symposium of the Canadian Botanical Association at the Annual Meeting, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario 10th June 1981 / edited by Roger Suffling.

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