Nitrogen and Carbon accretion on Ohio coal minesoils: Influence of soil-forming factors

Vimmerstedt, John P.; House, Michael C.; Larson, M. M.; Kasile, Joseph D.; Bishop, Bert L.

doi:10.1016/0169-2046(89)90018-2

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“…This may be due to the hostile ambience of mine spoil, where natural successional process leading to the establishment of vegetation cover may be a much slower process. Visser et al [21],Vimmerstedt et al [31] and Jencks et al [58], working on mine spoil reclamation in temperate climate reported a net nitrogen accumulation of 9.5 to 17 kg N/ha, and the figure of nitrogen accumulation estimated for the present study is 20 kg N/ha. Successional establishment of many leguminous herbaceous species on mine spoil in tropical environment can explain such higher N accumulation rate.…”

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confidence: 75%

“…On the other hand, vegetational cover development on degraded barren land was reported to check the loss of clay particles, and promotes its conservation [7,30]. Clay being an important primary particle, contributes to the soil structural stability [31][32][33]. Progressive increase in clay particle in mine spoil indicated progressive development of soil structural stability, aggregation, and developed resistance to erosion, with the increase in age of mine overburden [7,17,29,34].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Physico-Chemical Characterization and Mine Soil Genesis in Age Series Coal Mine Overburden Spoil in Chronosequence in a Dry Tropical Environment

Maharana¹

2013

J Phylogen Evolution Biol

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A pre-requisite to any revegetation plan, as well as restoration of degraded land is the knowledge of physicochemical characterization, which is crucial for prediction of ecological succession for mine overburden spoil, including soil texture, hydrological regimes, pH, organic carbon, nitrogen and extractable phosphorous. Effects of mining activities are markedly adverse, because many of the beneficial soil characteristics may require a long span of time to develop through pedogenic processes, in order to reach the native forest soil condition, which evaluates the degree of functional microbial processes for ecosystem recovery, and used as an index of the progress of soil genesis in mine overburden spoil. Mine spoil samples collected from six different age series overburdens showed progressive increase in clay (%) (r=0.982, p<0.001), water holding capacity and organic carbon, which indicates the development of soil structural stability, aggregation with the increase in age of overburden spoil. The pH of spoil samples was noted to be in acidic range (6.11-6.87). Approximately, 93.7% variability in clay (%) among different mine spoils can be explained due to the variation in organic carbon. The organic carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous content showed an improvement of 2 mg C/g spoil, 161 µg N/g spoil and 8 µg P/g spoil, respectively, over a period of 10 years. Thus, the net annual accumulation rate for carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous on hectare basis amounted to 255 kg C/ha/yr, 20 kg N/ha/ yr and 1 kg P/ha/yr, respectively. Further, it was estimated that the mine overburden spoil to attain the soil features of nearby native forest soil at study site through the process of reclamation, shall take approximately 28 years.

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Physico-Chemical Characterization and Mine Soil Genesis in Age Series Coal Mine Overburden Spoil in Chronosequence in a Dry Tropical Environment

Maharana¹

2013

J Phylogen Evolution Biol

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“…Available nitrogen increased significantly with the age of spoils. Vimmersted et al (1989) also reported an increase in nitrogen concentration in calcareous mined spoils. Several others workers such as Wali (1987) in North Dakota, Russel and La Roi (1986) in Alberta also recorded an increase in N with the ageing of the mined spoils.…”

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Status and diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and its role in natural regeneration on limestone mined spoils

Singh

Jamaluddin²

2010

Biodiversitas

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Singh AK, Jamaluddin (2011) Status and diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and its role in natural regeneration on limestone mined spoils. Biodiversitas 12: 107-111. Limestone mined spoils are devoid of adequate population of beneficial microbial flora. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are very important constituent of plant-soil-microbe system. In mined spoils the population of AMF is greatly reduced and hence the spoils become very inhospitable for establishment of vegetation. In the present investigation, status of AMF population and its effect on natural regeneration process is studied. It is well known fact that the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi play very important role in establishment of vegetation in degraded lands. Plantation of seedlings inoculated with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi provide favorable soil conditions for naturally growing vegetation in the mined overburden spoils. Physico-chemical properties of soil are converted suitable for planted species and thus it allows other species to grow and also provide shade to protect the herbaceous vegetation. Introduction of plant species attracts immigration of other species and if they established, may result into a very distinctive floral cover on disturbed lands. Thus, invasion of native plant species along with planted species may play a significant role in increasing the plant diversity on mined spoils.

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“…However, sites with higher conifer components tend to develop greater carbon pools within the litter layer. In Ohio, Vimmerstedt et al (1989) found that hardwood litter layer carbon pools (3 Mg ha -1 ) were significantly lower than litter layer carbon pools under pine sites (8 Mg ha -1 ). On a 35-year-old loblolly pine site in the piedmont of South Carolina, litter layer carbon averaged 32.8 Mg ha -1 (Richter et al, 1995).…”

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Restoring Sustainable Forests on Appalachian Mined Lands for Wood Products, Renewable Energy, Carbon Sequestration, and Other Ecosystem Services

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Galbraith²,

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Nitrogen and Carbon accretion on Ohio coal minesoils: Influence of soil-forming factors

Cited by 27 publications

References 7 publications

Physico-Chemical Characterization and Mine Soil Genesis in Age Series Coal Mine Overburden Spoil in Chronosequence in a Dry Tropical Environment

Physico-Chemical Characterization and Mine Soil Genesis in Age Series Coal Mine Overburden Spoil in Chronosequence in a Dry Tropical Environment

Status and diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and its role in natural regeneration on limestone mined spoils

Restoring Sustainable Forests on Appalachian Mined Lands for Wood Products, Renewable Energy, Carbon Sequestration, and Other Ecosystem Services

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