Revegetation standards for floodplain forest ecosystems in western Washington, USA
- Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA (United States)
Mining activity within floodplain landforms of western Washington, USA, presents unique problems in terms of approaches to revegetation and the success standards to be use to quantitatively evaluate revegetation success. Persistent historical disturbance of floodplain areas of the region has left little undisturbed natural vegetation to use as reference sites for development of success standards. A strategy is proposed for use of an ecological model of succession within floodplain vegetation to both identify revegetation options and provide a quantifiable and ecologically dynamic framework of success standards for revegetation evaluation. The floodplain forest moasic of mined lands in western Washington is a combination of (1) aquatic sites of open surface, impounded or flowing waters, (2) minerotrophic wetlands, and (3) xeroriparian sites between wetlands and uplands. Seven distinct and persistent plant communities of three community types are present are common. These physiognomic groupings successionally linked as habitats change from one flooding regime to another. Remenant stands of floodplain vegetation were used to construct a successional model which will provide for revegetation guidelines and a framework of success standards.
- OSTI ID:
- 588943
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9605286-; TRN: 98:001296-0102
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 13. annual meeting of the American Society for Surface Mining and Reclamation (ASSMR), Knoxville, TN (United States), 18-23 May 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Successes and failures: Applying research results to insure reclamation success; Daniels, W.L.; Burger, J.A.; Zipper, C.E. [Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA (United States). Depts. of Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences and Forestry] [eds.]; PB: 889 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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