Biodiversity loss caused by subsurface pipe drainage is difficult to restore

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/21:00544976 RIV/00216208:11310/21:10430460

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925857421001919?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925857421001919?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2021.106336" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ecoleng.2021.106336</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Biodiversity loss caused by subsurface pipe drainage is difficult to restore

Original language description

Subsurface pipe drainage was a frequently used way of agriculture intensification. Here, we present a case study of peat meadows that were drained from the mid 1980s to 1990s and were restored by interrupting drainage pipes through clay sealed trenches. This trial was subject of extensive survey of plant, soil fauna and soil chemistry, which was done just before restoration and then repeated 20 years later. The water table was the closest to surface in undrained meadows and much deeper in drained and restored meadows during both times. In the restored meadow, some increase of the water table was observed, but the water table was mostly within 60 cm of the surface. Undrained meadow was much richer in soil organic carbon. Plant communities in both drained and restored plots become closer to those in undrained remnants 20 years after restoration. Community weighted mean for Ellenberger values showed that undrained peat meadow remnants were more oligotrophic than drained and restored sites. Soil fauna communities of undrained remnants and both drained treatments were clearly separated in 1990s and lumped together 20 years later. This was caused by a shift in the communities in both drained treatments but also by degradation of undrained remnants, which shifted towards drained sites. The results show that restoration slightly shifted the communities towards the undrained reference sites, but the shift was not much bigger that those in drained sites and in both cases, do not result in peat formation. Control sites also show some degradation most likely due to eutrophication.

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

40104 - Soil science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

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

1872-6992

Volume of the periodical

170

Issue of the periodical within the volume

November

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

106336

UT code for WoS article

000685533300015

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85110109975