In search for a compromise between biodiversity conservation and human health protection in restoration of fly ash deposits: effect of anti-dust treatments on five groups of artropods

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-015-4382-1" target="_blank" >http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-015-4382-1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-015-4382-1" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11356-015-4382-1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

In search for a compromise between biodiversity conservation and human health protection in restoration of fly ash deposits: effect of anti-dust treatments on five groups of artropods

Original language description

Recently, fly ash deposits have been revealed as a secondary refuge of critically endangered arthropods specialised on aeolian sands in Central Europe. Simultaneously, these anthropogenic habitats are well known for their negative impact on human health and the surrounding environment. The overwhelming majority of these risks are caused by wind erosion, the substantial decreasing of which is thus necessary. But, any effects of anti-dust treatments on endangerednarthropods have never been studied. We surveyed communities of five arthropod groups (wild bees and wasps, leafhoppers, spiders, hoverflies and orthopteroid insects) colonising three fly ash deposits in the western Czech Republic. We focused on two different anti-dust treatments (70 andn100 % cover of fly ash by barren soil) and their comparison with a control of bare fly ash. Altogether, we recorded 495 species, including 132 nationally threatened species (eight of them were considered to be extinct in the country) and/or 30 species strictly specialised to drift sands. Bees and wasps and leafhoppers contained the overwhelming majority of species of the highest conservation interest; a few other important records were also in spiders and orthopteroids. Total soil cover depleted the unique environment of fly ash and thus destroyed the high conservation potential of the deposits. On the other hand, partial coverage (with 30%of bare fly ash) still offered habitats for many of the most threatened species, as we showed by both regression and multivariate analyses, with a decrease of wind erosion. This topic still needs much morenresearch interest, but we consider mosaic-like preservation of smaller spots of fly ash as one of the possible compromises between biodiversity and human health.

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

8

Pages from-to

13653-13660

UT code for WoS article

000379553500008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84926672671