Evaluating spoil amendment use and mycorrhizal inoculation on reforestation success in the eastern and western kentucky coalfields

25th Annual Meetings of the American Society of Mining and Reclamation and 10th Meeting of IALR 2008

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 98-111

  Barton, Christopher D ^a   Sweigard, Rick J ^a   Marx, Donald ^b   Barton, Will ^c  

^a Department of Forestry ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b Plant Health Care   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest reclamation approach; Soil amendments; Topsoil replacement

Indexed keywords

COAL DEPOSITS; FERTILIZERS; FUNGICIDES; LAND RECLAMATION; RECLAMATION; REFORESTATION; SEED; SOILS; WOOD PRODUCTS;

FACTORIAL EXPERIMENT; FOREST RECLAMATION; FUNGICIDE APPLICATION; HERBACEOUS BIOMASS; INHIBITORY EFFECT; MYCORRHIZAL FUNGUS; SOIL AMENDMENT; TOPSOIL REPLACEMENT;

COMPOSTING;

EID: 84865433667     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.21000/jasmr08010098     Document Type: Conference Paper

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