Vegetation and soil condition development on spoil heaps in the Ostrava-Karvina Coal District
- Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Ostrava (Czechoslovakia). Institute of Industrial Landscape Ecology
- Univ. of Mining and Metallurgy, Ostrava (Czechoslovakia)
This paper discusses both soil and vegetation development on mine spoil heaps of different age, as well as some environmental factors that are involved. The course of natural plant succession fired and unfired mine spoil heaps and the dominant species of several developmental stages (plant communities) are examined. Mainly, the exposure of slopes and the surface temperature are considered in studying the vegetation of spoil heaps. Anemochoral terophytes and hemicryptophytes dominate on south to west slopes in the first stages of development; development of vegetation on north and east slopes is different. Anemochoral phanerophytes dominate in the first developmental stages. Later, the plant cover includes high herbs and grasses, and the tree layer exhibits zoochoral tree species. The final stage on the spoil heaps in the Ostrava-Karvina Coal District is probably the Betulo-Quercetum Tx. 1937 community with complete stratification. The study area, an underground mining area in the Ostrava-Karvina Coal District, lies in the south part of the Silesian Basin. From a phytogeographical point of view, this area is identified as the Ostrava basin--the 83rd district of the Mesophyticum capraticum--phytogeographical province, with the flora of the upper hill country belt (gradus supracollinus).
- OSTI ID:
- 106366
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9210116-; ISBN 1-885189-02-8; TRN: 95:020829
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Conference on coal, energy and environment, Ostrava (Czechoslovakia), 12-16 Oct 1992; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Coal, energy and environment: Proceedings; Mead, J.S.; Hawse, M.L. [eds.]; PB: 644 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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