Soil physicochemical factors as environmental filters for spontaneous plant colonization of abandoned tailing dumps

Abandoned tailing dumps (ATDs) offer an opportunity to identify the main physicochemical filters that determine colonization of vegetation in solid mine wastes. The current study determined the soil physicochemical factors that explain the compositional variation of pioneer vegetal species on ATDs f...

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Veröffentlicht in:Environmental science and pollution research international 2017-05, Vol.24 (15), p.13484-13496
Hauptverfasser: Ginocchio, Rosanna, León-Lobos, Pedro, Arellano, Eduardo Carlos, Anic, Vinka, Ovalle, Juan Francisco, Baker, Alan John Martin
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Zusammenfassung:Abandoned tailing dumps (ATDs) offer an opportunity to identify the main physicochemical filters that determine colonization of vegetation in solid mine wastes. The current study determined the soil physicochemical factors that explain the compositional variation of pioneer vegetal species on ATDs from surrounding areas in semiarid Mediterranean-climate type ecosystems of north-central Chile (Coquimbo Region). Geobotanical surveys—including physicochemical parameters of substrates (0–20 cm depth), plant richness, and coverage of plant species—were performed on 73 ATDs and surrounding areas. A total of 112 plant species were identified from which endemic/native species (67%) were more abundant than exotic species (33%) on ATDs. The distribution of sampling sites and plant species in canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) ordination diagrams indicated a gradual and progressive variation in species composition and abundance from surrounding areas to ATDs because of variations in total Cu concentration (1.3%) and the percentage of soil particles
ISSN:0944-1344
1614-7499
DOI:10.1007/s11356-017-8894-8