Spontaneous revegetation versus forestry reclamation-Vegetation development in coal mining spoil heaps across Central Europe

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F19%3A43899129" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/19:43899129 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/67985939:_____/19:00505218
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ldr.3233" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ldr.3233</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3233" target="_blank" >10.1002/ldr.3233</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Spontaneous revegetation versus forestry reclamation-Vegetation development in coal mining spoil heaps across Central Europe
Original language description
Comparison of spontaneous revegetation and forestry reclamation can provide valuable information about the trajectories and rate of vegetation development applicable to restoration practice over broader geographical scales. In the current study, we sampled terrestrial vegetation in spontaneously revegetated and forestry reclaimed spoil heaps after brown coal mining differing in age in three regions across Central Europe (Germany, the Czech Republic, and Hungary). The main objective was to compare the course of vegetation development and species richness between the two restoration methods over a large geographical scale. In all geographical regions, species richness was higher on spontaneously revegetated sites. Although the starting point differed across regions, trajectories to woodland development converged with time. In addition, spontaneous revegetation was comparably as fast as forestry reclamation in developing towards woodland. Spontaneous revegetation proved to be more valuable and cost-effective in terms of nature conservation and should be considered as an alternative restoration strategy to forestry reclamation in Central Europe.
Czech name
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Czech description
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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
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-09979S" target="_blank" >GA17-09979S: Factors determining vegetation succession at the country scale</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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