• A pair of disturbances common in Western Canada’s boreal forests, when combined, may have an unexpected benefit of limiting the spread of non-native plant species, a University of Alberta study shows • The research gauged the interactive effect that natural wildfires and the presence of seismic lines-narrow clearings cut into forests for oil and gas exploration-had on the establishment and spread of non-native plants growing beside roads

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  • A pair of disturbances common in Western Canada’s boreal forests, when combined, may have an unexpected benefit of limiting the spread of non-native plant species, a University of Alberta study shows. The research gauged the interactive effect that natural wildfires and the presence of seismic lines-narrow clearings cut into forests for oil and gas exploration-had on the establishment and spread of non-native plants growing beside roads.

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