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Rough wave-like heaped overburden promotes establishment of woody vegetation while leveling promotes grasses during unassisted post mining site development
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SYSNO ASEP 0490792 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Rough wave-like heaped overburden promotes establishment of woody vegetation while leveling promotes grasses during unassisted post mining site development Author(s) Frouz, Jan (BC-A) RID, ORCID
Mudrák, Ondřej (BU-J) RID, ORCID
Reitschmiedová, E. (CZ)
Walmsley, A. (CZ)
Vachová, P. (CZ)
Šimáčková, H. (CZ)
Albrechtová, J. (CZ)
Moradi, J. (CZ)
Kučera, J. (CZ)Source Title Journal of Environmental Management. - : Elsevier - ISSN 0301-4797
Roč. 205, January (2018), s. 50-58Number of pages 9 s. Language eng - English Country GB - United Kingdom Keywords post mining sites ; trees ; succession ; herbs ; grasses ; topography ; forest restoration Subject RIV EH - Ecology, Behaviour OECD category Biodiversity conservation Subject RIV - cooperation Institute of Botany - Ecology, Behaviour R&D Projects LM2015075 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) Institutional support BC-A - RVO:60077344 ; BU-J - RVO:67985939 UT WOS 000415781600006 EID SCOPUS 85030174341 DOI 10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.09.065 Annotation Geodiversity plays an important role in species establishment during spontaneous succession. At post-mining sites in the Czech Republic in 2003, we established plots in which the surface of the heaped overburden was either kept wave-like or leveled. Based on surveys conducted from 2006 to 2015, leveled plots were increasingly dominated by grasses and herbs (and especially by the grass Calamagrostis epigejos) while the wave-like plots were increasingly dominated by the trees Salix caprea and Betula pendula. In 2015, a detailed survey was conducted of the dominant species. Both S. caprea and B. pendula occurred more often in wave-like plots than in leveled plots, this was particularly true for trees taller than 1 m, which were absent in leveled plots. In wave-like plots, leaf and root biomasses of both woody species were higher on the wave slopes than on the wave depressions. Nitrogen content was higher but content stress indicating proline in leaves of S. caprea was lower in wave-like plots than in leveled plots. In wave-like plots, both woody species occurred mainly on wave slopes but C. epigejos occurred mainly in the depressions. We speculate that trees were more abundant in wave-like plots than in leveled plots because the waves trapped tree seeds and snow and because the soil porosity was greater in wave-like than in leveled plots. Grasses may have preferred the leveled plots because soil porosity was lower and clay content was higher in leveled than in wave-like plots. Workplace Biology Centre (since 2006) Contact Dana Hypšová, eje@eje.cz, Tel.: 387 775 214 Year of Publishing 2019
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