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Main Title Use of Greenhouse Chambers for Enhancing Growth of Tundra Transplants on Gravel Fill in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.
Author Shirazi, M. A. ; Haggerty, P. K. ; Wyant, J. G. ; Bollman, M. A. ;
CORP Author Corvallis Environmental Research Lab., OR. ;Forest Service, Corvallis, OR. ;ManTech Environmental Technology, Inc., Corvallis, OR.
Publisher Aug 94
Year Published 1994
Report Number EPA/600/A-94/171;
Stock Number PB94-209772
Additional Subjects Offshore drilling ; Crude oil ; Tundra ; Arctic regions ; Ecosystems ; Disturbances ; Oil fields ; Greenhouses ; Temperature ; Estimates ; Plant growth ; Soil properties ; Biomass ; Habitats ; Revegetation ; Alaskan North Slope ; Plugs
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NTIS  PB94-209772 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
An approach is presented that could facilitate disturbed tundra revegetation and monitoring in Alaska North Slope Oil Fields. Experiments were conducted on an abandoned drilling pad where the gravel was removed to a thin layer (Ca. 20 cm) above tundra grade and mixed with underlying compacted original sod. Intact plugs 13.3 cm in diameter were transplanted from a donor plot into the thin gravel in treatments with and without mini greenhouses covering single plugs and double plugs. At the end of the first growth season, the greenhouse air temperature (in aggregate thawing degree C days) was elevated 68% and the greenhouse soil temperature was elevated 17% above the ambient air and soil temperatures, respectively. Two independent methods were used for estimating plug growth. Visual cover estimation showed that double plugs with greenhouse produced cover values significantly greater than single plugs. Radiometry measurements developed and modeled to predict plug canopy dry weight showed that the dry weight for all treatments except double plugs with greenhouse fall within ranges of samples taken from stressed areas in the native tundra.