Additional disturbances as a beneficial tool for restoration of post-mining sites: a multi-taxa approach

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F16%3A00458517" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/16:00458517 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/60076658:12310/16:43890866 RIV/62690094:18470/16:50004733 RIV/00216208:11310/16:10325403

Result on the web

<a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-016-6585-5" target="_blank" >http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-016-6585-5</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-016-6585-5" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11356-016-6585-5</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Additional disturbances as a beneficial tool for restoration of post-mining sites: a multi-taxa approach

Original language description

Open interior sands represent a highly threatened habitat in Europe. In recent times, their associated organisms have often found secondary refuges outside their natural habitats, mainly in sand pits. We investigated the effects of different restoration approaches, i.e. spontaneous succession without additional disturbances, spontaneous succession with additional disturbances caused by recreational activities, and forestry reclamation, on the diversity and conservation values of spiders, beetles, flies, bees and wasps, orthopterans and vascular plants in a large sand pit in the Czech Republic, Central Europe. Out of 406 species recorded in total, 112 were classified as open sand specialists and 71 as threatened. The sites restored through spontaneous succession with additional disturbances hosted the largest proportion of open sand specialists and threatened species. The forestry reclamations, in contrast, hosted few such species. The sites with spontaneous succession without disturbances represent a transition between these two approaches. While restoration through spontaneous succession favours biodiversity in contrast to forestry reclamation, additional disturbances are necessary to maintain early successional habitats essential for threatened species and open sand specialists. Therefore, recreational activities seem to be an economically efficient restoration tool that will also benefit biodiversity in sand pits.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP504%2F12%2F2525" target="_blank" >GAP504/12/2525: Arthropods of anthropogenic fine-substrated habitats: community structure, conservation potential and species functional traits</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

ISSN

0944-1344

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

23

Issue of the periodical within the volume

14

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

13745-13753

UT code for WoS article

000379553500016

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84962648006