Recovery of Tundra Vegetation Three Decades after Hydrocarbon Drilling with and without Seeding of Non-Native Grasses + Supplementary Appendices (See Article Tools)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Kearns, Nicole B., Jean, Mélanie, Tissier, Emily J., Johnstone, Jill F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2015
• Subjects: revegetation treatments; low Arctic tundra; plant invasion; oil and gas exploration; Kendall Island Bird Sanctuary; long-term monitoring; traitements de revégétalisation; basse toundra arctique; invasion par les plantes; exploration pétrolière et gazière; Refuge d’oiseaux de l’île Kendall; surveillance à long terme; Arctic; Canada; Kendall; Kendall Island; Mackenzie Delta; Northwest Territories; Arctique*; Territoires du Nord-Ouest; toundra; Tundra
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/67487

Oil and gas exploration conducted in the 1970s left a legacy of abandoned test wells with sumps, containing drilling waste, in the Mackenzie Delta region of Canada’s Northwest Territories. One to two years after the wells were decommissioned, a set of sites were seeded with non-native grasses and fe...