Unexplored freshwater communities in post-mining ponds: effect of different restoration approaches
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14310/22:00125937
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/rec.13679" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/rec.13679</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rec.13679" target="_blank" >10.1111/rec.13679</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Unexplored freshwater communities in post-mining ponds: effect of different restoration approaches
Original language description
Many studies examining plant and terrestrial invertebrate communities have revealed the high conservation potential of spoil heaps. On the other hand, the freshwater communities inhabiting post-mining ponds within these human-made habitats are almost unexplored. We focused on aquatic macroinvertebrate, zooplankton, and phytoplankton communities in the littoral zones of 24 ponds situated on spoil heaps created after lignite mining in the Czech Republic. We compared environmental factors, taxa richness, and conservation value (number of threatened aquatic macroinvertebrate species) in the ponds, based on the type of restoration approach applied, that is, technical reclamation, spontaneous succession, and their combination (semi-spontaneous succession). While macroinvertebrate and zooplankton taxa richness did not differ significantly between the three types of pond, the phytoplankton community did, with the highest taxa richness recorded in technically established ponds. From a nature conservation point of view, the spontaneously developed ponds hosted almost twice as many threatened macroinvertebrates as the other ponds; nevertheless, even the technically constructed ponds hosted considerable populations of rare species, e.g. the regionally extinct beetle Limnebius nitidus (Marsham, 1802), and contributed to the overall conservation value of the spoil heaps. The most significant driver structuring post-mining pond freshwater communities was the percentage of vegetation in the littoral zone.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10619 - Biodiversity conservation
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
RESTORATION ECOLOGY
ISSN
1061-2971
e-ISSN
1526-100X
Volume of the periodical
30
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
1-10
UT code for WoS article
000777981200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85127461513