In other landscapes with heavily modified ecologies – mining, salinity, urbanization – design can mark the hand of human intervention, but then return the landscape to an amalgamation of historic ecologies and cultural handprints.
It is well known that pyrite oxidation is a major factor responsible for the acidification of mine wastes, which cause extreme salinity and metal toxicity, and generate acid mine drainage when carbonates are depleted [10].
The database provides genome-wide datasets of salinity tolerant Populus, along with data mining and visualization tools for studying the salt resistance in poplars.
Freshwater peatlands dominate the landscape prior to mining, but the post-mining reclamation landscape will have wetlands that span a salinity gradient.
This information is important to the management and the control of salinity and metals in soils affected by mine tailings.
Bioreduction of inorganic sulfur compounds can be applied to treat sulfur-rich waste streams with high pH and salinity originated from the oil, natural gas and mining industries.
In the last decade the attempt for mining more and more salt tolerant genes from the grasses has increased gradually, also the genes have been characterized and transformed in different model plants to test their efficacy in enhancing salinity tolerance.
We surveyed vegetation communities and environmental variables in 25 natural boreal wetlands along a salinity gradient and in 10 industrial marshes in the oil sands mining region.
High values of potential salinity in the area can be ascribed to high sulfate content derived from the lead mining, the major mineral mined in the studied area.
Issues potentially or actually pertinent to the Cape Range/Barrow Island groundwater fauna include oil and gas field development [24], mining [3], water extraction or various uses and waste discharge [23], increasing salinity [10], and pollution [1].
