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Ecological Succession in Areas Degraded by Bauxite Mining Indicates Successful Use of Topsoil by Onésimo, Cecilia Mara Gomes; Dias, Diego Dayvison; Beirão, Marina; Kozovits, Alessandra Rodrigues; Messias, Maria Cristina Teixeira Braga is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
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Brazilian ironstone outcrops (cangas) are nutrient-poor stressful habitat dominated by slow-growing woody species with high biodiversity and unique evolutionary history. Mining has produced great impacts on this ecosystem. Spontaneous regeneration of abandoned canga mined areas has not been observed. One of the active methods most widely used for ecological restoration in environments This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. where soil has been lost or severely degraded is topsoil transposition due to the physical, chemical and microbiological improvement of the substrate, in addition to the seed bank. Thus, plant succession was monitored for 40 months after topsoil transposition in a canga area degraded by aluminum mining, without any other type of management. A completely randomized design with 70 permanent plots (1x1m) was used. Annual phytosociological surveys were carried out and floristic and vegetational spectra were constructed with the life-forms proposed by Raunkiaer. Floristic composition was compared with a reference site. Overall, 105 species were identified. Both flora and vegetation changed over time, increasing resemblance to the reference areas.
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- Author
- Onésimo, Cecilia Mara Gomes; Dias, Diego Dayvison; Beirão, Marina; Kozovits, Alessandra Rodrigues; Messias, Maria Cristina Teixeira Braga
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1061-2971)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)