Biodiversity and temporal patterns of macrozoobenthos in a coal mining subsidence area in North China.

ABSTRACT: Coal resources play a strategic role in the long-term development of China. Large-scale mining has a considerable impact on the landscape, and it is a long-term heritage of industrialization unique to the Anthropocene. We investigated the macrozoobenthos and water in nine mining subsidence wetlands at different developmental stages (3-20 years) in North China. A total of 68 species were found, and the macrozoobenthos community in the newly formed wetlands showed high diversity. We believe that this high diversity is not random; rather, the high diversity was because of the special origin and development of the wetland. We used three time slices from the timeline of the development of the newly formed wetlands and compared them. It was found that the macrozoobenthos community was significan

SUBMITTER: Zhang G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6378915 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature