Ecological patterns for vegetation cover formation in the mining waste dumps of the Lviv-Volyn coal basin

Skrobala, Viktor; Popovych, Vasyl; Pinder, Volodymyr

doi:10.33271/mining14.02.119

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“…To promote the sprouting of herbaceous plants as well as to prevent an impact on the development of animal husbandry due to the pollution of the mining area, apart from water and soil analyses to control pollution, a 25 cm layer of topsoil was used to restore the waste heaps and to promote the sprout of herbaceous plants that were carefully selected to prevent pollutants’ transfer to the animals and maintain the sustainability and the quality of land [ 41 , 42 ].…”

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Restoring Coal Mining-Affected Areas: The Missing Ecosystem Services

Krzemień

Fernández

et al. 2022

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Multi-criteria decision analysis and cost-benefit analysis, either individually or in combination, have been used as the preferred tools to develop ecosystem services valuation, presenting significant discrepancies and variations between the calculated values. To counteract this problem, a new framework was developed based on a hierarchical weighting of the non-provisioning ecosystem services, using biodiversity as the reference ecosystem service since it is the easiest to apprehend. Their monetisation was made using the average price of EU carbon dioxide emission allowances during 2019 and 2020, obtaining reasonable and comparable results in line with what was expected for the study region. However, the revised EU Emissions Trading System Directive, which will apply from 2021–2030, generated a price escalation of carbon allowances, making it necessary to adjust or rethink the proposed framework. To achieve this goal, the paper proposes the introduction of new vectors or “missing ecosystem services” to counterbalance efforts to eliminate carbon dioxide emissions without necessarily removing humans from the equation: welfare and human health. As the linkages regarding ecosystem health, ecological restoration and human health are not well known, only welfare was incorporated into the framework. The results were highly satisfactory, in line with what was expected for the study region and the ones obtained before the price escalation of carbon allowances that started in 2021.

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Restoring Coal Mining-Affected Areas: The Missing Ecosystem Services

Krzemień

Fernández

et al. 2022

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“…However, in the conditions of insufficient financing of reclamation works in Ukraine, most rock dumps are subject to natural overgrowth (natural phytomelioration). For effective biological reclamation, it is necessary to study the rocks that make up the dumps, the features of soil formation and the processes of formation of natural vegetation (Khlyzina, 2008;Paran'ko, Khlyzina, 2005;Malenko, 1999;Safonova, Reva, 2009;Shanda,, Voroshylova,, 2015: Skrobala,, Popovych, Pinder, 2020.…”

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Lithoecotopes and vegetation of the Left -bank and the Right-bank dumps of the Southern Mining and Processing Plant

Voroshylova¹,

Chorna²,

Dotsenko³

et al. 2023

Journ. Geol., Geogr., and Geoec..

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The article clarifies the peculiarities of the development of vegetation that is formed on the rock dumps of the Southern Mining and Processing Plant or their rock components (lithoecotopes), that is, only lithophilic vegetation. The problem of researching lithophilic plant communities from the point of view of forecasting their natural development and optimization is relevant not only for Kryvbas, but also for all industrial areas of open mining, in which significant masses of hard overburden rocks are brought to the surface of the earth. We have defined various lithoecotopes and described plant groups of varying complexity on plateau peaks, terraces and slopes depending on the specifics of their constituent rocks and typological features. Plant lithophilic groups of dumps of the Southern Mining and Processing Plant in accordance with the state of lithoecotopes, including all typological characteristics and geochemical nature of rocks, are marked by significant analytical (floristic and ecomorphic composition, occur- rence, stratification, physiognomy, abundance, coverage) and synthetic (similarity, constancy) differences signs A detailed study of thecondition of plants and their groups in lithoecotopes made it possible to make sure that their distribution and development have clearly defined substrate and relief-exposure dependencies, which can be used in phytotic and phytocenotic improvement of these man-made ecotopes. The natural overgrowth of all dumps has a mixed shrub-tree forest and grassy character in accordance with the typological characteristics and composition of the rocks. It was found that the change of plant communities on the lithoecotopes left without hu- man influence is endoexogenous in nature, because the ecesis external pressure is imposed on intracenotic processes. As a result of such integration, both fluctuations and successions naturally occur against the background of one or another substrate. The occurrence of species, the species and petrophytic capacity of plant communities, and their petrophytic indices in the lithoecotopes of the dumps have discrepancies depending on the specifics of the conditions. In general, the taxonomic composition of the plant communities of the dumps of the Pidennoy GZK of Kryvbas is determined by 218 species belonging to 54 families, 84 species of which are petrophytes.

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“…It was established that the low activity of oxidoreductases and urease in the soils of the former development of sulfur deposits is a consequence of significant inhibition of the activity of soil microflora -the main producer of enzymes -by technogenic factors. The formation of a phytoremedial cover on the surface of devastated landscapes of coal mining is given in the article [9]. The role of plant cover in the restoration of disturbed lands has been established.…”

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Environmental safety of soil genetic horizons in the impact zone of Lviv city landfill (Ukraine)

Popovych

2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Landfills cause significant technogenic pressure on the environment, being the center of depositing large volumes of hazardous materials in a relatively small area. Interacting with each other they form hazardous substances and compounds. In this study, we describe three genetic soil horizons that are within the impact zone of the landfill of a city of millions of people. It was established that the distribution of mobile forms of heavy metals according to the profile of the studied soils tended to gradual decrease with depth. When describing the genetic horizons of three profiles located in the impact zone of the landfill, it was established that the content of heavy metals in them does not exceed the MPC, except for Pb. The soil at the foot of the landfill turned out to be the most contaminated with heavy metals (profile No. 3). The activity of micromycetes in this soil was the lowest here. In general, all soils in the impact area of the landfill are impoverished in micromycete distribution. The taxonomic composition of mycelial fungi and the identified species’ ecological and biological characteristics indicate significant ecosystem pollution by household waste.

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Ecological patterns for vegetation cover formation in the mining waste dumps of the Lviv-Volyn coal basin

Cited by 9 publications

References 20 publications

Restoring Coal Mining-Affected Areas: The Missing Ecosystem Services

Restoring Coal Mining-Affected Areas: The Missing Ecosystem Services

Lithoecotopes and vegetation of the Left -bank and the Right-bank dumps of the Southern Mining and Processing Plant

Environmental safety of soil genetic horizons in the impact zone of Lviv city landfill (Ukraine)

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