Soil amendments improve vegetation establishment and evapotranspiration on store and release mine cover systems

Authors: Millar, C; Barber, L; Robeson, M; Sump, D; McDonnell, JJ

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Millar, C, Barber, L, Robeson, M, Sump, D & McDonnell, JJ 2023, 'Soil amendments improve vegetation establishment and evapotranspiration on store and release mine cover systems', in B Abbasi, J Parshley, A Fourie & M Tibbett (eds), Mine Closure 2023: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Mine Closure, Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Perth, https://doi.org/10.36487/ACG_repo/2315_049

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Keywords: mine cover systems, surface amendments, land reclamation, vegetation establishment, ecohydrology, net percolation, evapotranspiration

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