Research Applications
PRS® Probes have been used in laboratory and field studies evaluating the impact of practices for restoring degraded landscapes.
Examples
- Soil and plant response to wellsite rehabilitation on native prairie in southeastern Alberta, Canada.
- Recreating a functioning forest soil in reclaimed oil sands in northern Alberta: An approach for measuring success in ecological restoration.
- Impact of reclamation of surface-mined boreal forest soils on microbial community composition and function.
- Microbial community structure and nutrient availability in oil sands reclaimed boreal soils.
- Laboratory-based nitrogen mineralization and biogeochemistry of two soils used in oil sands reclamation.
- Applying the forest health approach to monitoring boreal ecosystems in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region.
- Effectiveness of soil N availability indices in predicting site productivity in the oil sands region of Alberta.