Effect of different restoration approaches on two species of newts (Amphibia: Caudata) in Central European lignite spoil heaps

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60076658:12310/17:43895559 RIV/00216208:11140/17:10328634 RIV/00216208:11310/17:10328634

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925857416306656" target="_blank" >http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925857416306656</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2016.11.042" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ecoleng.2016.11.042</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Effect of different restoration approaches on two species of newts (Amphibia: Caudata) in Central European lignite spoil heaps

Original language description

Post-mining sites often offer secondary habitats for various amphibians endangered in common agricultural landscapes. On the other hand, there is a general lack of quantitative studies on the effects of the common restoration practices on colonisation of such artificial freshwater habitats by amphibians. Here, we focus on two newts decreasing in Central Europe, Lissotriton vulgaris and Triturus cristatus, in pools within lignite (brown coal) spoil heaps in the western Czech Republic.nWe compared their abundances in pools established by technical reclamation, spontaneous succession, and their combination. In spring 2016, we sampled 29 freshwater pools in five spoil heaps and 10 fishponds in the surrounding agricultural landscape by funnel trapping. We captured 52 L. vulgaris and 138 T. cristatus in all the studied habitats together. As only two L. vulgaris and no T. cristatus were caught in fishponds, the high potential of pools in post-mining landscapes was confirmed. Both newt species generally avoided the artificially established pools, but the spontaneously established pools were equally suitable for them in both technically reclaimed and spontaneously developed heaps. L. vulgaris preferred more transparent water, higher cover of cattails and the pool placed in the forest, but with fewer trees on the pool banks, whilst T. cristatus preferred narrower zone of littoral vegetation, more trees on the pool banks, smaller water bodies and absence of fish. Such habitat preferences fully corroborate with natural habitats. The technical reclamation still prevails in restoration of post-mining sites in many regions. We reveal it is an unsuitable practice for amphibians, if not combined with natural succession processes.n

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/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

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Ecological Engineering

ISSN

0925-8574

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

99

Issue of the periodical within the volume

FEB 05

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

310-315

UT code for WoS article

000391838600034

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84997216888