Progressive belowground soil development associated with sustainable plant establishment during copper mine waste revegetation.

ABSTRACT: Critical to the environmental sustainability of hard rock mining is the reclamation of disturbed lands following mine closure through revegetation. Improved understanding of associations between above- and belowground processes that characterize successful plant establishment is critical to the implementation of more efficient revegetation strategies for nutrient-poor mine waste materials. The specific objective of this five-year temporal study was to identify progressive biotic and abiotic indicators of primary soil development on mine waste rock (WR) on a slope hydroseeded with native plant species and to quantify comparative effects of plant lifeform on soil development. Aboveground plant diversity and belowground substrate properties were measured annually at 67 m intervals along trans

SUBMITTER: Ossanna LQR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9956965 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature