期刊
ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
卷 36, 期 6, 页码 783-790出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2010.02.003
关键词
Coal; Restoration; Spoil heaps; Succession; Soil formation; Vegetation
资金
- Ministry of Education Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic [2808023]
- Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic [AV0Z60660521, AV0Z60050516, S600660505]
- ENKI o.p.s.
- Sokolovska uhelna a.s. coal mining company
In the Sokolov coal mining district of the Czech Republic. spoil heaps are reclaimed by forest plantations. which are planted directly into the rough substrate (alkaline tertiary clay). We compared the understory that spontaneously developed in seven types of forest stands: one type was unreclaimed stands (spontaneously overgrown by Betula pendula and Salix caprea) and six were plantations, each dominated by one tree genus (Alnus, Larix, Picea, Anus, Quercus, and Tilia). The age of the stands ranged from 22 to 33 years. The cover of understory plant species in each stand was estimated, and 16 other environmental and community variables were quantified. The number of plant species was highest in Quercus. Larix, and unreclaimed stands, and was negatively correlated with forest canopy cover and with the cover of the understory dominant, the grass Calamagrostis epigejos. Understory composition differed considerably among the types of forest stands and was significantly explained by the measured environmental variables. Forward selection in redundancy analysis indicated that the most important variable driving understory composition was thickness of the fermentation layer, which is clearly connected with soil development. Environmental variables, including fermentation layer, were also affected by the type of forest stand. Therefore, all of the explained variability in understory composition could be attributed to the type of forest stand, which apparently affected the understory by its impact on soil formation. However. the most favorable soil conditions were not favorable for understory development, as they supported mainly C epigejos, which suppressed other species. Our study also showed that even in the absence of reclamation measures, mining sites can be successfully restored due to spontaneous succession. (C) 2010 Elsevier B V All rights reserved.
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