Soil salinity is an environmental condition that is currently increasing worldwide. Plant
growth under salinity induces osmotic stress and ion toxicity impairing root water and …

Quaking or trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) is a foundational tree species,
which is native, common, and broadly distributed in North America. The ecology of aspen …

Much has been achieved by research into ecological restoration as a nature-based solution
to the destruction of ecosystems, particularly in Canada. We conducted a national-level …

Although aboveground metrics remain the standard, restoring functional ecosystems should
promote both aboveground and belowground biotic communities. Restoration using …

Aeolian desertification is the dominant form of land degradation in drylands. The straw
checkerboard barrier (SCB) method is effective for sand fixation and has been used to …

Microbial research for maintaining soil productivity, health, and environment as well as for
ecosystem function has been one of the main research focuses in the Department of …

Monitoring of ecological restorations has rarely focused on fungi. In this study, we conduct a
first‐ever monitoring of macrofungi in ecological restorations of coastal Indiana (USA) and …

Land reclamation following surface mining in the Athabasca oils sands region will be
extensive, with various challenges specific to local reclamation cover soils. The high …

The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of different soil covers used to
reclaim decommissioned oil sands mining sites on the genetic diversity of aspen and their …

Fine root litter is the principal source of carbon stored in forest soils and a dominant source
of carbon for fungal decomposers. Differences in decomposer capacity between fungal …