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8:00 AM- 12:00 PM SY07 Sym p osi u m Ha ll C

Ecological impacts a nd restoration of industrial sites: r oles of bryophytes and

graminoid vascular plants

Chair: Nicole Fenton

8:00 Introduction

8:15 SY07002 Vitt, Dale H.* -House, Melissa -Ebbs, Stephen -Glaeser, Lilyan -
Hazen, Renee
Reclaiming Peatlands after Oil Sands Mining: Plant Responses after
Two Years at Sandhill Fen

8:45 SY07003 Borkenhagen, Andrea* - Cooper, David - Kaczynski, Kristen
Vegetation establishment on a reclaimed fen in Alberta's oil sands
region

9:15 SY07004 Caners, Richard* - Lieffers, Victor
Bryophyte decomposition in wooded moderate-rich fens following
in situ oil sands exploration

9:45 Break

10:15 SY07006 Rochefort, Line
The moss layer transfer as an ecological restoration approach in
degraded peatlands

10:45 SY07007 Guittonny-Larcheveque, Marie* -Bouchard, Hugo - Remaury, Arnaud
Do herbaceous species used for mine waste revegetation facilitate or
compete with tree establishment?

11:15 D iscussion

8 :00AM- 12:00 PM SY08 Symposium Salon 17/18

U nderutilized Crops for Secure and Green Futures

Chair: Nyree Zerega

8:00 Introduction

8:15 SY08002 Ross, Nanci }.
The ecological side ofan ethnobotanical coin: how long do our selec-
tive impacts on the landscape persist?

8:45 SY08003 Khoury, Colin
Increasing homogeneity in global food supplies, agricultural research
funding, and recommendations for diversifying food systems

9:15 SY08004 Knapp, Sandra
Crop wild relatives - how much do we really understand?

9:45 Break

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