Technical reclamation and spontaneous succession produce different water habitats: A case study from Czech post-mining sites

Doležalová, Jana; Vojar, Jiří; Smolová, Daniela; Solský, Milič; Kopecký, Oldřich

doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2011.11.017

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“…) and amphibians (Doležalová et al . ), has also been found to be influential in birds (Karr ; this study).…”

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“…This led to habitat deprivation for birds such as Luscinia svecica, Charadrius dubius, Locustella naevia and Acrocephalus arundinaceus, which inhabit wet patches as well as associated vegetation (sedges, reeds, willows) that emerge in the small depressions which occur widely across successions above impermeable clay-type subsoil. Diverse vertical habitat architecture, including ragged soil surface, important for community diversification in plants (Prach & Pysˇek 2001;Mudra´k, Frouz & Velichova´2010), invertebrates (Hendrychova´2008; Tropek et al 2010) and amphibians (Dolezˇalova´et al 2012), has also been found to be influential in birds (Karr 1968;this study).…”

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Spontaneous succession on opencast mining sites: implications for bird biodiversity

Šálek

2012

Journal of Applied Ecology

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Summary1. Remediation of lands devastated by industry includes various forms of restoration, such as technical reclamation and spontaneous succession. These management approaches are debated regarding conservation strategies for postindustrial landscapes. Mining areas consisting of early-to late-developmental stages of both reclaimed and unreclaimed sites offer an opportunity to examine the roles of restoration strategies in a complete successional series for biodiversity and disentangle the contributions of particular biotopes available at postindustrial sites. 2. Using linear models and multivariate analysis, I tested the effects of (a) developmental stages from early successional sites to mature forests, combined with (b) the initiation process at the sites, which was either technical reclamation or spontaneous succession, and (c) vegetation cover on (i) species richness, (ii) rarity and (iii) species composition of bird communities on 60 plots (100 9 100 m) within opencast mining areas in the lignite basin of north-western Czech Republic. 3. Bird communities were consistently more species rich on spontaneously developed sites compared with reclaimed sites throughout all stages of the succession series. Species richness increased with site age due to increasing habitat heterogeneity. 4. The conservation value of bird communities was generally lower on reclaimed sites than on spontaneously developed sites and decreased with site age. The most valuable communities developed on early successional sites and native shrublands, because these were inhabited by specialists that were scarce in the surrounding landscape. By contrast, technically reclaimed sites resulted in impoverished communities, usually with narrow spectra of common species. 5. Synthesis and applications. The results highlight the importance of spontaneously established sites and complete succession series for developing valuable bird communities in postindustrial areas such as opencast mining sites. In particular, early successional sites and shrublands create refuges for early successional specialists disappearing from the common landscape and these should be promoted at the expense of reclaimed sites wherever possible. My results support an effort for systematic implementation of early successional sites into conservation practice.

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“…) and amphibians (Doležalová et al . ), has also been found to be influential in birds (Karr ; this study).…”

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confidence: 59%

Section: Discussion H a B I T A T D E P R I V A T I O N O N R E C L Amentioning

confidence: 88%

Spontaneous succession on opencast mining sites: implications for bird biodiversity

Šálek

2012

Journal of Applied Ecology

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“…It is usually believed that the construction land was the most stable landscape [18]. When compared with other study areas, the landscape fragility of the construction land in resource-based cities was relatively higher [36]. On the one hand, after the closure of coal mines, the economic recession and the loss of the employment population resulted in a large amount of construction land being abandoned and changed to unused land.…”

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Spatiotemporal Variations of Land Use and Landscape Ecological Risk in a Resource-Based City, from Rapid Development to Recession

Zhou¹,

Chang²,

Hu³

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Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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A healthy ecosystem provides various ecological services for human beings and it is the foundation for the sustainable development of human society. However, human activities and natural disasters inevitably interfere with the evolution of an ecosystem at different scales [1-2]. Ecological risk refers to the possibility that the ecosystem structure and function will be degenerated under external pressure [3]. Ecological risk assessment (ERA) is an effective method for quantifying

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“…Dispersal limitation hypothesis: Vertical slopes surrounding wetlands limit emigration of metamorphs, thereby determining disadvantages (Doležalová et al . ); and 6. Terrestrial habitat suitability hypothesis: a suitable terrestrial habitat (high wood cover) favours newts (Denoël & Lehmann ).…”

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Heterochrony in a complex world: disentangling environmental processes of facultative paedomorphosis in an amphibian

Denoël

Ficetola

2014

Journal of Animal Ecology

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Summary1. Heterochrony, the change in the rate or timing of development between ancestors and their descendants, plays a major role in evolution. When heterochrony produces polymorphisms, it offers the possibility to test hypotheses that could explain its success across environments. Amphibians are particularly suitable to exploring these questions because they express complex life cycles (i.e. metamorphosis) that have been disrupted by heterochronic processes (paedomorphosis: retention of larval traits in adults). The large phenotypic variation across populations suggests that more complex processes than expected are operating, but they remain to be investigated through multivariate analyses over a large range of natural populations across time. 2. In this study, we compared the likelihood of multiple potential environmental determinants of heterochrony. We gathered data on the proportion of paedomorphic and metamorphic palmate newts (Lissotriton helveticus) across more than 150 populations during 10 years and used an information-theoretic approach to compare the support of multiple potential processes. 3. Six environmental processes jointly explained the proportion of paedomorphs in populations: predation, water availability, dispersal limitation, aquatic breathing, terrestrial habitat suitability and antipredator refuges. Analyses of variation across space and time supported models based on the advantage of paedomorphosis in favourable aquatic habitats. 4. Paedomorphs were favoured in deep ponds, in conditions favourable to aquatic breathing (high oxygen content), with lack of fish and surrounded by suitable terrestrial habitat. Metamorphs were favoured by banks allowing easy dispersal. 5. These results indicate that heterochrony relies on complex processes involving multiple ecological variables and exemplifies why heterochronic patterns occur in contrasted environments. On the other hand, the fast selection of alternative morphs shows that metamorphosis and paedomorphosis developmental modes could be easily disrupted in natural populations.

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Technical reclamation and spontaneous succession produce different water habitats: A case study from Czech post-mining sites

Cited by 47 publications

References 39 publications

Spontaneous succession on opencast mining sites: implications for bird biodiversity

Spontaneous succession on opencast mining sites: implications for bird biodiversity

Spatiotemporal Variations of Land Use and Landscape Ecological Risk in a Resource-Based City, from Rapid Development to Recession

Heterochrony in a complex world: disentangling environmental processes of facultative paedomorphosis in an amphibian

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