Upland reclamation promotes forest evaporative losses in the Boreal Plains of Canada: A comparison of carbon and water fluxes

Reclaiming upland boreal forests as part of post-mining watershed construction in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) requires evaluation criteria as these novel ecosystems develop. Here, we analyzed 55 site-years of eddy covariance observations of constructed forests and soils on formally pit-mined landscapes (9 sites) and contrasted them to 18 site-years of post-harvested ecosystems (3 sites) and 38 site-years of mature Boreal Plains …