Report to the Endangered Species Recovery Fund, World Wildlife Fund, Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the 2000 field season.
| dc.contributor.author | Hynes, Kim E. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tagliavia, Cecilia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bazely, Dawn | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-12-04T10:50:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-12-04T10:50:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2001-07 | |
| dc.description | Report to the Endangered Species Recovery Fund, World Wildlife Fund, Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the 2000 field season. Part 1: The plant community composition of Oak Savanna remnants in southern ontario (Pinery Provincial park, Point Pelee National park and Rondeau Provincial Park). Part 2: Recovery of restored cottage sites in Point Pelee National Park. Part 3: Experimental reintroduction of vulnerable native herbaceous and woody species to a model southern ontario Carolinian forest | en |
| dc.description.abstract | 1. Southwestern Ontario is the most densely populated, urbanized, industrialized and intensively farmed part of Canada. The remaining natural habitat cover is 5-10%, and much of this has been subjected to intense human-induced disturbance in the past. Conservation and habitat restoration is, to put it mildly, a huge challenge. 2. This report explains the 2000 fieldwork results of 3 projects funded by the ESRF, which comprise the research of 2 York University graduate students, Cecilia Tagliavia and Kim Hynes. 3. The overall aim of the research was to determine how best to restore Carolinian plant communities, specifically Oak Savanna and closed canopy Carolinian forest. 4. Oak savanna is to some degree a fire-dependent plant community. Rare and endangered species (e.g. Wild Lupine and Karner Blue Butterfly) are present and the community itself is considered to be extremely rare in Ontario and globally imperiled. 5. Overall, the 2000 field season has demonstrated that active management efforts in Carolinian plant communities have the potential of successfully restoring and rehabilitating highly disturbed habitats. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Endangered Species Recovery Fund, Environment Canada, administered by World Wildlife Fund Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Hynes, K., Tagliavia, C. and Bazely, D.R. 2001. Restoring disturbed Carolinian plant communities. Report to the Endangered Species Recovery Fund, World Wildlife Fund, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 51 pp. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10315/6348 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Biology Department, York University | en |
| dc.subject | Oak savanna | en |
| dc.subject | National Parks | en |
| dc.subject | Provincial Parks | en |
| dc.subject | Rondeau | en |
| dc.subject | Pinery | en |
| dc.subject | Point Pelee | en |
| dc.subject | Restoration ecology | en |
| dc.subject | Prescribed burn | en |
| dc.subject | Endangered species | en |
| dc.title | Report to the Endangered Species Recovery Fund, World Wildlife Fund, Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the 2000 field season. | en |
| dc.type | Technical Report | en |