Plant community development trends on mixed grass prairie well sites 5 years after reclamation

Soulodre, Etienne M.J.; Dhar, Amalesh; Naeth, M. Anne

doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2022.106635

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“…Although our pipeline study provided evidence of recovery as most of the plant community characteristics were similar to original grassland within 6-21 years including dominant species, the differences in plant community composition might be due to topsoil stripping as stated in other grassland studies (Desserud et al 2010;Elsinger et al 2022;Soulodre et al 2022). According to Elsinger et al (2022), impacts of construction method that involved intensive soil handling such as topsoil stripping had detrimental effects on recovery of fescue grassland.…”

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“…Ostermann (2001) found no difference in vegetation cover on an 11‐year‐old pipeline relative to undisturbed foothills fescue grassland. Soulodre et al (2022) suggested using topsoil to facilitate natural regeneration was better than seeding to achieve a diverse plant community in mixed grass prairie. Naeth et al (2020) found higher species richness and diversity in dry mixed‐grass prairie when topsoil was used to facilitate natural regeneration than when pipelines were seeded.…”

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“…In contrast to seeding or active revegetation, natural regeneration, spontaneous succession, and natural recovery were cost‐effective approaches for recovering biodiversity, ecological processes, and ecosystem services under favorable ecological conditions for wide range ecosystems from grassland to forest (Prach & Hobbs 2008; Avirmed et al 2015; Chazdon & Guariguata 2016). Native propagules are considered better adapted to local conditions than introduced propagules, thereby increasing establishment (Dhar et al 2018; Shaughnessy et al 2022; Soulodre et al 2022). Hence, disturbances revegetated via natural regeneration are expected to result in a more diverse community similar to undisturbed grassland (Hammermeister et al 2003; Desserud & Naeth 2013; Soulodre et al 2021).…”

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Plains rough fescue grassland restoration using natural regeneration after pipeline disturbances

Elsinger

Dhar

Naeth

2022

Restoration Ecology

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Plains rough fescue (Festuca hallii), once a dominant grassland in the Northern Great Plains, has been reduced to a fraction of its original extent by agricultural intensification and energy sector disturbances and has become a threatened community type. Despite thousands of kilometers of pipelines in grasslands, little is documented about long-term restoration outcomes. This research assessed recovery of rough fescue grassland 6-21 years after pipeline construction with topsoil stripping and natural regeneration relative to undisturbed reference sites in south-central Canada. Soil properties varied between pipelines and undisturbed prairie, although most were within theoretical values to support plant growth and development. Vegetation cover, species richness and Shannon diversity and evenness did not differ significantly between pipelines and undisturbed prairie. Multivariate analysis (multi-response permutation procedure) showed plant community composition, and its dominant species differed significantly between pipelines and undisturbed prairie. Bray-Curtis dissimilarity indices showed dominant species and functional species groups on pipelines were more similar to undisturbed prairie than the undesirable species group. Presence of early-to late-successional species and increasing F. hallii with pipeline age indicate restoration was possible with topsoil salvage and replacement, using natural regeneration as a revegetation method, but requires time to develop and restore a typical rough fescue grassland ecosystem.

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Plains rough fescue grassland restoration using natural regeneration after pipeline disturbances

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Dhar

Naeth

2022

Restoration Ecology

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“…The geographical and meteorological characteristics of the study areas are shown in Table 1. Similarly, Soulodre et al (2022) analyzed the plant development trends for the reclamation process and compared them between the second and fifth years of the plantation period. Moreover, a nearby planted control has also been considered to resemble a similar climatic condition to assess restoration and build the soil quality index in the degraded land due to coal mining activities (Mukhopadhyay et al, 2013).…”

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Tectona grandisL.f. mediated restoration of marginal lands in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, North India

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Tectona grandis L.f. has considerable potential to restore marginal and degraded lands as it offers multiple co-benefits during the restoration venture. It provides good quality wood for multipurpose use, including biomass for bioenergy and noninvasive traits. For this, aboveground biomass (AGB) was assessed along with testing the critical soil properties (soil physicochemical and biological properties) across different plantation sites during a 4-year study period (2015)(2016)(2017)(2018). The study suggested that the soil properties like bulk density, moisture content, pH, organic carbon, available nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium have shown significant mean improvement in all planted sites collectively. These were improved by À0.21 g cm À3 , 0.68%, À0.68, 0.27%, 13.69 mg kg À1 , 11.77 mg kg À1 , 95.20 mg kg À1 , respectively, in an arid area (Mirzapur, i.e., M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, and M6 sites, representing a warm and tropical dry climate) from the unplanted control (CM1) during 2015-2018. Moreover, the microbial biomass carbon and dehydrogenase activity were significantly improved by 56.71 mg kg À1 and 6.92 μg TPF g À1 hr À1 , respectively, from CM1. Similar results were also observed in the semiarid areas of Varanasi, representing a humid subtropical climatic pattern (i.e., V4 and V5 sites) compared to the unplanted control in the (CV1). Furthermore, the AGB was found between 12.56 and 229.13 kg tree À1 , representing 5 and 30 years of plantation, respectively, in 2018. Reference sites (V1, V2,

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“…Benchmarks are typically created from distributions of indicator values that characterize the natural range of variability expected to occur in a region in the absence of development and are used to evaluate ecosystem conditions and management outcomes (Gibson et al, 2000; Hawkins et al, 2010; Webb et al, 2020). Outcomes of reclamation may be a reflection of climate and soil setting (Bresson et al, 2022; Shackelford et al, 2021), practices (Soulodre et al, 2022), policy (Lupardus et al, 2020), or combinations of factors. Edaphic factors especially, such as soil texture, depth, and salinity, are known to influence or constrain the structure and composition of reclaimed vegetation communities (Monroe et al, 2022; Pennington et al, 2017).…”

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Time, climate, and soil settings set the course for reclamation outcomes following dryland energy development

Lupardus,

Sengsirirak,

Griffen

et al. 2023

Land Degrad Dev

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Soil attributes, climate, and time since reclamation have important implications for oil and gas reclamation success on drylands. It is uncertain if reclaimed well pads, on highly degraded drylands, can successfully regain ecological function or meet indicator benchmarks for reclamation. Here, our goals were to assess patterns in reclamation outcomes relative to (1) soil attributes, climate, and time since reclamation; and (2) plant and soil reference benchmarks. We collected a suite of plant, soil, and landscape characteristics from 134 reclaimed well pads on the Colorado Plateau that spanned climate and soil gradients and ranged from 2 to 20 years post‐reclamation, then compared characteristics to those from 583 reference plots. On the reclaimed pads, less saline soils, more mesic climates, and longer time since reclamation were associated with favorable reclamation outcomes based on metrics of plant species richness and diversity, plant structure, and cover of important plant functional groups. However, most pads had major departures in 1/4 indicators, suggesting unsuccessful reclamation. Arid warm locations with shallow soils had the greatest percentage of major departures, and noxious plant richness had the greatest departures across soil and climate settings. Our assessment indicates reclamation is failing in key metrics for most pads, and the results highlight the role of environmental conditions in driving reclamation outcomes. These new insights are valuable for ascertaining possible reclamation outcomes and success rates following energy related disturbance, including orphaned wells and renewable energy development. Importantly, the approach used here has applicability for setting benchmarks and outcome standards.

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Plant community development trends on mixed grass prairie well sites 5 years after reclamation

Cited by 13 publications

References 46 publications

Plains rough fescue grassland restoration using natural regeneration after pipeline disturbances

Plains rough fescue grassland restoration using natural regeneration after pipeline disturbances

Tectona grandisL.f. mediated restoration of marginal lands in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, North India

Time, climate, and soil settings set the course for reclamation outcomes following dryland energy development

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