The effect of soil and plant material transplants on vegetation and soil biota during forest restoration in a limestone quarry: A case study

Benetková, Petra; Tichý, Lubomír; Háněl, Ladislav; Kukla, Jaroslav; Vicentini, Fabio; Frouz, Jan

doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2020.106039

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“…Whether this is a general pattern, or dependent on the habitat in question, is not known. Benetková et al (2020) speculated that it may be more appropriate to strip the resident community in forests as opposed to grasslands as soil formation is much faster under forests. They posit that other soil restoration projects (Moradi et al, 2018;van der Bij et al, 2018) were more successful than theirs due to their different rewilding methodology (Benetková et al (2020) transplanted soil on top of the resident community as opposed to removing the resident community prior to the transplants).…”

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“…Evidence for this can be found in the most common form of whole‐of‐community rewilding, topsoil inoculation studies. Transplants of whole soil communities can improve the biodiversity and density of mites and springtails (van der Bij et al., 2018; Wubs et al., 2016), the abundance of wetland macroinvertebrates (Brown et al., 1997), soil nematode abundance (Benetková et al., 2020), and soil macrofauna abundance (Moradi et al., 2018). Similarly, Haase and Pilotto (2019) noted that their method of rewilding whole communities of stream invertebrates introduced 45 taxa from remnant streams that were absent in partially restored recipient streams.…”

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“…The topsoil contributes to improving the characteristics of the ecosystem and collaborates significantly to increase its resilience and the production of environmental services, such as the acceleration of ecological succession and the expression of mechanisms for the natural restoration of the environment (Bechara et al 2007). The use of topsoil brings many advantages since it carries organic matter, microorganisms, litter, whole plants, roots, stems and seed bank (Ferreira et al 2015), and it can also be an attractive potential for the arrival of the macrofauna (Moradi et al 2018;Benetkov a et al 2020). The positive effect of topsoil transposition on the macrofauna biomass, richness and functional diversity was reported before (Machado et al 2015;Jiang et al 2018).…”

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“…2018; Benetková et al . 2020). The positive effect of topsoil transposition on the macrofauna biomass, richness and functional diversity was reported before (Machado et al .…”

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Effects of topsoil transposition on the taxonomic and functional diversity of macrofauna of highly degraded soil

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Topsoil transposition has been identified as an environmental restoration technique capable of accelerating regeneration in degraded areas. In addition to the seed bank, topsoil contains invertebrates and microorganisms essential in ecological succession. This study evaluated the temporal variation in the macrofauna community structure in an experiment with topsoil transposition. We hypothesized that the morphospecies richness, functional groups and macrofauna biomass would be higher in the plots with topsoil and native vegetation compared with plots with no topsoil. We further hypothesized that the composition of macrofauna community and the proportion of functional groups in the topsoil and the reference plots would become more similar over time. The community was compared between plots that received topsoil, plots that did not receive topsoil and plots in a natural vegetation, over 14 months. The macrofauna biomass and the diversity of functional groups were equivalent in the degraded area and the topsoil. The effect of treatment on richness depended on time, and it was possible to observe higher values of macrofauna richness in the topsoil compared with the degraded area in some months. The compositions of the macrofauna communities in the degraded area and the topsoil showed greater similarity to each other. In contrast, the reference area showed the greatest dissimilarity with the other treatments. In general, the macrofauna community in the topsoil remained more similar to the degraded area. However, in the topsoil plots, we found higher macrofauna richness during rainy months and an increase in predator biomass. In conclusion, the macrofauna community in the topsoil, which has changed over time, presented higher values of morphospecies richness in some months and the increase in predator biomass, indicating an increase in the complexity of the community. Besides, the topsoil can improve biodiversity, but this does not produce the natural communities found at reference sites, in a small‐time scale experiment.

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“…Although restoration practices are usually focused at the plant community level (Benetkova et al, 2020;Gotzenberger et al, 2012), the restoration of soil structure and function are a necessary prerequisite for the restoration of ecosystem functions in mine-damaged areas (Bradshaw & Huttl, 2001;Cihlarova et al, 2017). Soil restoration can be effectively monitored by studying soil nematode community characteristics because soil nematode communities adapt well to the environment and are sensitive to soil environmental changes (Georgieva et al, 2002;Martin et al, 2014;Martinez et al, 2018;Neher, 2001).…”

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Restoration of damaged ecosystems in desert steppe open‐pit coal mines: Effects on soil nematode communities and functions

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Repair of damaged areas in open-pit (opencast) coal mines has emerged as an important environmental concern. Our research investigated the mechanism by which different ecological restoration methods affected soil nematode communities in damaged areas of desert steppe coal mines. Using high-throughput sequencing technology, nematode community composition, diversity, and function were analyzed to determine the response of nematodes to different ecological restoration methods in damaged areas of coal mines. For slope rehabilitation, vegetation blanket restoration exhibited more favorable effects than those exhibited by vegetation bag restoration and natural restoration. For rehabilitation of the platform area under the slope, the diversity of soil nematodes and the soil fauna analysis under alien soil restoration conditions were performed and exhibited similar characteristics to those of the native vegetation. Findings based on Linear discriminant analysis Effect Size (LEfSe) multi-level discriminant analysis and determination of shared genera suggest that Paraphelenchus, Cervidellus, Panagrolaimus, Microdorylaimus, Cephalobus, and Ecumenicus may be the key genera of soil nematodes in the damaged ecosystem of open-pit coal mines in the desert steppe. We found that reasonable water and fertilizer management in slope restoration and under-slope platform area restoration may play a key role in the restoration of damaged ecosystems in open-pit coal mines. We comprehensively analyzed the response of soil nematode communities and their functions to different ecological restoration methods, and provided a reference for evaluating the quality of underground ecosystem restoration of damaged areas in abandoned desert steppe open-pit coal mines.

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The effect of soil and plant material transplants on vegetation and soil biota during forest restoration in a limestone quarry: A case study

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Rewilding with invertebrates and microbes to restore ecosystems: Present trends and future directions

Rewilding with invertebrates and microbes to restore ecosystems: Present trends and future directions

Effects of topsoil transposition on the taxonomic and functional diversity of macrofauna of highly degraded soil

Restoration of damaged ecosystems in desert steppe open‐pit coal mines: Effects on soil nematode communities and functions

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