The growth, competition, and facilitation of grass and legumes in post-mining soils
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F23%3A00577619" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/23:00577619 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/23:10469641
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42729-023-01290-8" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42729-023-01290-8</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42729-023-01290-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s42729-023-01290-8</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The growth, competition, and facilitation of grass and legumes in post-mining soils
Original language description
Post-mining sites are characterised by unfavourable soil conditions which limit the recovery of ecosystem functions. The growth of legumes, which are able to increase soil nitrogen content and accelerate the primary succession, can be limited by soil conditions as well as by grass competition. We performed a greenhouse pot experiment using various soils from spoil heaps where we planted legumes, namely, Trifolium pratense and Lotus corniculatus, and a grass, Poa compressa. The aim was to determine their growth and interaction-competition vs facilitation — with respect to their biomass and a response to the δ15N in plant biomass. The variation of substrates was given by using soils of various ages (from 15 to 60 years old) and their previous management-reclaimed or unreclaimed (spontaneously overgrown) sites in spoil heaps in the Sokolov coal mining district (The Czech Republic). The growth of plants studied increased with substrate age and plants grew faster in reclaimed than successional substrates, but the differences decreased with age. Symbiotic nitrogen fixation supported the growth of legumes and made them favourable, especially in early substrates, where the grass was suppressed. The legume-grass competition increased with substrate age and nitrogen content in soil but was not significant for T. pratense. The effect of facilitation was not observed. Legumes showed as strong competitors with the grass in post-mining sites substrates and do not facilitate the grass. Legumes could contribute to adding nitrogen to the poor substrates through the decomposition of their high biomass, according to the studies done in a real situation.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_013%2F0001782" target="_blank" >EF16_013/0001782: Research of key soil-water ecosystem interactions at the SoWa Research Infrastructure</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition
ISSN
0718-9508
e-ISSN
0718-9516
Volume of the periodical
23
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
3695-3704
UT code for WoS article
000995210000002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85160291625