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Restoration of opencast coal mine spoil by planting exotic tree species: a case study in dry tropical region
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Growth performance, biomass accumulation, and net primary productivity (NPP) of five exotic plant species planted to stabilize and improve the coal mine spoils in India were assessed in this paper.About:
This article is published in Ecological Engineering.The article was published on 2003-12-01. It has received 98 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biomass (ecology) & Acacia auriculiformis.read more
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Ecosystem carbon budgeting and soil carbon sequestration in reclaimed mine soil.
Raj K. Shrestha,Rattan Lal +1 more
TL;DR: The factors affecting C sequestration and protection in RMS leading to increase in microbial activity, nutrient availability, soil aggregation, C build up, and soil profile development must be better understood in order to formulate guidelines for development of an holistic approach to sustainable management of these ecosystems.
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Soils development in opencast coal mine spoils reclaimed for 1–13 years in the West-Northern Loess Plateau of China
Zhongqiu Zhao,Zhongqiu Zhao,Isam Shahrour,Zhongke Bai,Zhongke Bai,Wenxiang Fan,Liangrui Feng,Huifeng Li +7 more
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the effects of different plant species and reclamation time on the soil development, 9 plots in the reclaimed spoils of Pingshuo opencast coal mine in Shanxi, China were established and the physical, chemical and microbiological properties of the soils were analyzed.
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Use of Reclaimed Mine Soil Index (RMSI) for screening of tree species for reclamation of coal mine degraded land
TL;DR: In this article, principal component analysis (PCA) was employed to derive a Reclaimed Mine Soil Index (RMSI) which was used for ranking of suitability of the species.
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Environmental impact studies in coalfields in India: A case study from Jharia coal-field
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the environmental impact studies done on various specific aspects in India, which involve methodologies of field-site investigation, laboratory analysis and satellite data processing is presented.
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Changes in soil properties in the soil profile after mining and reclamation in an opencast coal mine on the Loess Plateau, China
Xiaoyang Liu,Zhongke Bai,Zhongke Bai,Wei Zhou,Wei Zhou,Yingui Cao,Yingui Cao,Gengjie Zhang,Gengjie Zhang +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the changes in the soil profile after mining and reclamation, and found that most reclaimed mine soil properties (including bulk density, pH, P, K, available P and available K) increased in comparison with those of the natural soils.
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Production, Turnover, and Nutrient Dynamics of Above and below ground Detritus of World Forests
TL;DR: Evergreen forests accumulate higher forest floor masses than deciduous in similar climatic zones, but in needle-leaved forests none of the climatic factors or latitude explains the variation in amount of aboveground litterfall mass or litterfall nitrogen (N) input.
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Production, Turnover, and Nutrient Dynamics of Above- and Belowground Detritus of World Forests
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured the root masses of needle-leaved forests and deciduous forests and found that the proportion of total detrital input to forest floor occurring as aboveground litterfall varied from 23 to 80%.
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The Storage and Production of Organic Matter in Tropical Forests and Their Role in the Global Carbon Cycle
Sandra Brown,Ariel E. Lugo +1 more
TL;DR: The linear relationship between biomass and litterfall suggested that the turnover time of biomass in mature tropical forests is similar for all life zones, and is of the order of 34 yr.
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The apparent paradox of reestablishing species richness on degraded lands with tree monocultures
TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that reestablishment of tree species richness on degraded sites with arrested succession could be facilitated through plantings of tree monocultures. But, the authors do not consider the effects of such monocultural plantations on the ecology of the plantations.
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Productivity, nutrient cycling, and succession in single- and mixed-species plantations of Casuarina equisetifolia, Eucalyptus robusta, and Leucaena leucocephala in Puerto Rico
TL;DR: Tree growth, biomass productivity, litterfall mass and nutrient content, changes in soil chemical properties and understory forest succession were evaluated over a 8.5-year period in single- and mixed-species plantations of Casuarina equisetifolia and Leucaena leucocephala.