Vegetation development of forestry reclaimed sand and sand-gravel pits: is it on a way towards more natural species composition?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F20%3A43901097" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/20:43901097 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/20:00534154

Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rec.13085" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rec.13085</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rec.13085" target="_blank" >10.1111/rec.13085</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Vegetation development of forestry reclaimed sand and sand-gravel pits: is it on a way towards more natural species composition?

Original language description

Until now, forestry reclamation has been a prevailing method used during mining-site restoration in Central Europe. Although many studies described the process and outcome of forestry reclamation, none described in detail the vegetation development from initial to late stages. Our study aimed to fill this gap focusing on vegetation description in forestry reclaimed post-mining sand and sand-gravel pits across the Czech Republic, identification of the effects of the surrounding vegetation on species composition in forestry reclaimed sites, and comparison of the conservation value in terms of species richness and number of Red List species of sites originating from forestry reclamation and spontaneous revegetation. In the early stages of vegetation development of forestry reclaimed sites, dry and mesic grassland species occurred, with some species belonging to the national Red List. After about 5 years, however, these species rapidly disappeared and were replaced by woodland species. In contrast, spontaneously revegetated sites hosted much more dry and mesic grassland species, as well as Red List species, which persisted during the considered stand age (1-75 years). Although there was a large overlap in species composition between the forestry reclaimed and spontaneously revegetated sites, the study clearly demonstrated that the most valuable sites from a conservation perspective are destroyed within a few years by forestry reclamation. Therefore, spontaneous revegetation should be considered as a low-cost alternative method to forestry reclamation for vegetation restoration in post-mining sand and sand-gravel pits in Central Europe.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

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

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Restoration Ecology

ISSN

1061-2971

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

28

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

979-987

UT code for WoS article

000553606700029

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85083768977