Correlation between herbaceous species and environmental variables at the abandoned Haizhou coal mining site

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 146-153

  Guo, Xiangyun ^a,b   Komnitsas, Kostas ^b   Li, Daoliang ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Forensic investigations; Ordination; Redundancy analysis (RDA); Vegetation soil relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949549832     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: 15275930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275920903558877     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Alvarenga, P., Goncalves, A. P., Fernandes, R.M., De Varennes, A., Vallini, G., Duarte, E., and Cunha-Queda, A. C. 2008. Evaluation of composts and liming materials in the phytostabilization of a mine soil using perennial ryegrass. Science of the Total Environment 406(1-2): 43-56.
2. Breneman, D., Richards, C., and Lozano, S. 2000. Environmental influence on Benthic community structure in a great lakes embayment. Journal of Great Lakes Resource 26(3): 287-304.
3. Bucci, G., and Borghetti, M. 1997. Understory vegetation as a useful predictor of natural regeneration and canopy dynamics in Pinus sylvestris forests in Italy. Acta Oecologica 18(4): 485-501.
4. Calster, H. V., Baeten, L., Verheyen, K., Keersmaeker, L.D., Dekeyser, S., Rogister, J. E., and Hermy, M. 2008. Diverging effects of overstorey conversion scenarios on the understorey vegetation in a former coppice-with-standards forest. Forest Ecology and Management 256(4): 519-528.
5. Cao, X. 2007. Regulating mine land reclamation in developing countries: The case of China. Land Use Policy 24(2): 472-483.
6. Conesa, H. M., Garcia, G., Faz, A., and Arnaldos, R. 2007. Dynamics of metal tolerant plant communities' development in mine tailings from the Cartagena-La Unión Mining District (SE Spain) and their interest for further revegetation purposes. Chemosphere 68(6): 1180-1185.
7. Fan, J. F., and Liu, Z. B. 2005. Experimental study of soil physical and chemistry property and improve measures of dump in Haizhou open-pit coal mine [in Chinese]. Opencast Mining Technology 5:75-77.
8. Fre'rot, H., Lefe'bvre, C., Gruber, W., Collin, C., Santos, A. D., Escarre', J. 2006. Specific interactions between local metallicolous plants improve the phytostabilization of mine soils. Plant and Soil 282(1-2): 53-65.
9. Gao, L., Miao, Z.W., Bai, Z. K., Zhou, X. Y., Zhao, J. K., and Zhu Y. M. 1998. A case study of ecological restoration at the Xiaoyi Bauxite Mine, Shanxi Province, China. Ecological Engineering 11(1): 221-229.
10. Grand, J., and Cushman, A. S. 2003. A multi-scale analysis of species-environmental relationships: Breeding birds in a pitch pine-scrub oak (Pinus rigida-Quercus ilicifolia) community. Biological Conservation 112(3): 307-317.
11. Hou, Y. P, Peng, S. L., Li, F. R., Lin, Z. G., Chen, B. M., and Peng, H. 2008. Characteristics and scientific values of ecological succession in Danxia Landform of China. Acta Ecologica Sinica 28(7): 3384-3389.
12. Hunter, A. H. 1980. Laboratory and greenhouse techniques for nutrient survey to determine the soil amendments required for optimum plant growth. Orange City, FL: Agro Services International, Florida.
13. Jochimsen, M. E. 2001. Vegetation development and species assemblages in a long-term reclamation project on mine spoil. Ecological Engineering 17(2): 187-198.
14. Johnson, E. A., and Miyanishi, K. 2008. Testing the assumptions of chronosequences in succession. Ecology Letters 11(5): 419-431.
15. Jordan, S. N., Mullen, G. J. and Courtney, R. G. 2008. Utilization of spent mushroom compost for the revegetation of lead-zinc tailings: Effects on physico-chemical properties of tailings and growth of Lolium perenne. Bioresource Technology 99(17): 8125-8129.
16. Józefaciuk, G., Muranyi, A., Szatanik-Kloc, A., Farkas, C., and Gyuricza, C. 2001. Changes of surface, fine pore and variable charge properties of a brown forest soil under various tillage practices. Soil and Tillage Research 59:127-135.
17. Komnitsas, K., Kontopoulos, A., Lazar, I., and Cambridge, M. 1998. Risk assessment and proposed remedial actions in coastal tailings disposal sites in Romania. Mineral Engineering 11(12): 1179-1190.
18. Komnitsas, K., Lazar, I., and Petrisor, I. G. 1999. Application of a vegetative cover on phosphogypsum stacks. Mineral Engineering 12 (2): 175-185.
19. Komnitsas, K., Paspaliaris, I., Zilberchmidt, M., and Groudev, S. 2001. Environmental impacts at coal waste disposal sites: Efficiency of desulphurization technologies. Global Nest 3(2): 135-142.
20. Kontopoulos, A., Komnitsas, K., Xenidis, A., and Papassiopi, N. 1995. Environmental characterisation of the sulphidic tailings in Lavrion. Mineral Engineering 8(10): 1209-1219.
21. Leitgib, L., Gruiz, K., Fenyvesi, É., Balogh, G., and Murányi, A. 2008. Development of an innovative soil remediation: Cyclodextrin-enhanced combined technology. Science of the Total Environment 392:12-21.
22. Lepš, J., and Šmilauer, P. 2003. Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data using CANOCO. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
23. Li, G. Q., Wang, X. A., Guo, H., and Zhu, Z. H. 2008. Effects of ecological factors on plant communities of Ziwuling Mountain, Shaanxi Province, China. Acta Ecologica Sinica 28(6): 2463-2471.
24. Lu, H. L., Li, S. Q., Jin, F. H., Shao, M. A. 2008. Effects of soluble organic N on evaluating soil N-supplying capacity. Agricultural Sciences in China 7(7): 860-870.
25. Madejón, E., Madejón, P., Burgos, P., Pérez de Mora, A., and Cabrera, F. 2009. Trace elements, pH and organic matter evolution in contaminated soils under assisted natural remediation: A 4-year field study. Journal of Hazardous Material 162(2-3): 931-938.
26. Martinez-Ruiz, C., Fernandez-Santos, B., Putwain, P. D., and Fernandez-Gomez, M. J. 2007. Natural and man-induced revegetation on mining wastes: Changes in the floristic composition during early succession. Ecological Engineering 30(2): 286-294.
27. Miao, Z., and Marrs, R. 2000. Ecological restoration and land reclamation in open-cast mines in Shanxi Province, China. Journal of Environmental Management 59(3): 205-215.
28. Naqinezhad, A., Hamzeh, B., and Attar, F. 2008. Vegetation-environment relationships in the alderwood communities of Caspian lowlands, N. Iran (toward an ecological classfication). Flora 203(7): 567-577.
29. Peppas, A., Komnitsas, K., and Chalikia, I. 2000. Use of organic covers for acid mine drainage control. Mineral Engineering 13(5): 563-574.
30. Pérez-de-Mora, A., Madrid, F., Cabrera, F., and Madejón, E. 2007. Amend-ments and plant cover influence on trace element pools in a contaminated soil. Geoderma 139(1): 1-10.
31. Petrisor, I., Dobrota, S., Komnitsas, K., Lazar, I., Kuperberg, C. M., and Serban, M. 2004. Artificial inoculation-Perspectives in tailings phytostabilization. International Journal of Phytoremediation 6(1): 1-15.
32. Querol, C., Alastuey, A., Lopez-Soler, A., Plana, F., Fernandez-Turiel, J. L., Zeng, R. S., et al. 1997. Geological controls on the mineral matter and trace elements of coals from the Fuxin basin, Liaoning Province, northeast China. International Journal of Coal Geology 34(1): 89-109.
33. Rahman, M. M., Nagelkerke, L. A. J., Verdegem, M. C. J., Wahab, M., and Verreth, J. A. J. 2008. Relationships among water quality, food resources, fish diet and fish growth in polyculture ponds: A multivariate approach. Aquaculture 275(1-4): 108-115.
34. Raman, K. D., and Madhoolika, A. 2003. Restoration of opencast coal mine spoil by planting exotic tree species: A case study in dry tropical region. Ecological Engineering 21(2): 143-151.
35. Reddy, K. R., Wetzel, R. G., Kadlec, R. H. 2005. Biogeochemistry of phosphorus in wetlands. Phosphorus: Agriculture and the Environment. ASA-CSSASSSA, Agronomy Monograph 46:263-316.
36. Reeves, D. W. 1997. The role of soil organic matter in maintaining soil quality in continuous cropping systems. Soil & Tillage Research 43:131-167.
37. Rousseau, G. X., Rioux, S., and Dostaler, D. 2006. Multivariate effects of plant canopy, soil physico-chemistry and microbiology on Sclerotinia stem rot of soybean in relation to crop rotation and urban compost amendment. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38(12): 3325-3342.
38. Shao, X. 2005. The environmental management of mining area in Australia and lesson for China [in Chinese]. China Mining Magazine 14(7): 48-50.
39. Slaton, N. A., Wilson, C. E., Ntamatungiro, Jr. S., and Norman, S. J. 2002. Development of a critical Mehlich 3 soil-test zinc value for rice. In Wells, B. R., ed. Rice Research Studies. Fayetteville,AR: Agricultural Experimental Station, 412-420.
40. Small, E., Sadler, J. P., and Telfer, M. 2006. Do landscape factor affect brownfield carabid assemblages? Science of the Total Environment 360 (1-3): 205-222.
41. Soil and Fertilizer Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. 2009. A general guideline of systematic method for soil nutrients analysis [in Chinese]. Available at http://cclab.caas.ac.cn/main/coopitem/items ceshi sys.htm (accessed April 5, 2009).
42. Song, H. X., Li, S. X., 2006. Root Function in nutrient uptake and soil water effect on NH3-N and NH4-N migration. Agricultural Sciences in China 5(5): 377-383.
43. Suikkanen, S., Laamanen, M., and Huttunen, M. 2007. Long-term changes in summer phytoplankton communities of the open northern Baltic Sea. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 71(3-4): 580-592.
44. Tang, Q. Y., and Feng, M. G., 2002. Practical statistics and DPS data processing system [in Chinese]. Beijing, China: Beijing Science Press, 43-77.
45. Tordoff, G. M., Baker, A. J. M., and Willis, A. J. 2000. Current approaches to the revegetation and reclamation of metalliferous mine wastes. Chemosphere 41(1): 219-228.
46. Tucker, C., and Ungar, I. A. 2002. Aboveground Vegetation, seed bank and soil analysis of a 31-year-old forest restoration on coal mine spoil in southeastern Ohio. American Midland Naturalist 147(1): 44-59.
47. Webster, R., Welham, S. J., Potts, J. M., and Oliver, M. A. 2006. Estimating the spatial scales of regionalized variables by nested sampling, hierarchical analysis of variance and residual maximum likelihood. Computers & Geoscience 32:1320-1333.
48. Wei, Y. C., Bai, Y. L., Jin, J. Y., Yang, L. P., Yao, Z., Xu, S. X., et al. 2007. Sufficiency and deficiency indices of soil available zinc for rice in alluvial soil of the coastal Yellow Sea. Rice Science 14(3): 223-228.
49. Wong, M. H. 2003. Ecological restoration of mine degraded soils, with emphasis on metal contaminated soils. Chemosphere 50(6): 775-780.
50. Wu, W., Fan, Y., Wang, Z. Y., and Liu, H. B. 2008. Assessing effects of digital elevation model resolutions on soil-landscape correlations in a hilly area. Agriculture Ecosystem and Environment 126(3-4): 209-216.
51. Xenidis, A., Papassiopi, N., and Komnitsas, K. 2003. Carbonate rich mine tailings in Lavrion: Risk assessment and proposed rehabilitation schemes. Advances in Environmental Research 7(2): 207-222.
52. Xu, L., Fan, J. S., Zhou, X. C., Sun, G. S., and Yin, Z. D. 2005. Study on plant species of opencast coal mine spoils in Haizhou, Fuxin region during natural plant restoration [in Chinese]. Journal of Arid Land Resources and Environment 19(6): 152-157.
53. Ye, X. J., Wang, Z. Y., Tu, S. H., and Sulewsl, G. 2006. Nutrient limiting factors in acidic vegetable soils. Pedosphere 16(5): 624-633.
54. Zhang, J. T. 2004. Quantitative Ecology [in Chinese]. Beijing, China: Bei-jing Science Press.
55. Zhang, L., Li, Z. K., Su, Z. R., and Chen, B. G. 2007. Quantitative classification and ordination of forest communities in Nanling National Nature Reserve [in Chinese]. Journal of South China Agricultural University 28(3): 71-75.