Development of plant communities after restoration of the Antaibao mining site, China

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Development of plant communities after restoration of the Antaibao mining site, China

Xiaoyu GUO¹, Guilian ZHANG², Huili GONG¹, Kaiyun WANG², Jintun ZHANG³(

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1. Key Laboratory of Resource Environment and Geography Information System, College of Resource, Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100037, China; 2. Chinese Academy of Science-Max Planck Society Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China; 3. College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

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Abstract

To investigate the dynamic changes in the artificial vegetation in an abandoned mining site, we analyzed the relationships among community types, environmental variables and community structure in the process of vegetation restoration in the Antaibao mining site, China by survey of the communities and use of biological dating methods. By means of the quantitative classification method (two-way indicator-species analysis, TWINSPAN) and the ordination technique (de-trended correspondence analysis, DCA; and de-trended canonical correspondence analysis, DCCA), the plant communities were classified into seven groups: community I, Robinia pseudoacacia + Pinus tabulaeformis - Caragana korshinskii - Agropyron cristatum; community II, Robinia pseudoacacia - Hippophae rhamnoides - Artemisia capillaries; community III, Ulmus pumila - Elaeagnus angustifolia - Artemisia capillaries;community IV, Caragana korshinskii - Agropyron cristatum + Artemisia capillaries; community V, Hippophae rhamnoides - Elymus dahuricus;community VI, Elaeagnus angustifolia + Hippophae rhamnoides - Brassica jucea;community VII, Hippophae rhamnoides + Elaeagnus angustifolia - Salsola collina. We conclude that the community types and diversity are mainly influenced by the succession time and the soil organic matter content. The forest community is more adaptable to the special inhabitation than the shrub community.

Keywords mining site plant community succession recovery of vegetation restoration ecology species diversity Shanxi

Corresponding Author(s): ZHANG Jintun,Email:zhangjintun@yahoo.com.cn

Issue Date: 05 June 2009

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Xiaoyu GUO,Guilian ZHANG,Huili GONG, et al. Development of plant communities after restoration of the Antaibao mining site, China[J]. Front Biol Chin, 0, (): 222-227.

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Fig.1 The location of the study site

Tab.1 The species number and name

Tab.2 Structural and environmental characteristics of the communities

Fig.2 Two-dimensional de-trended correspondence analysis (DCA) ordination diagram of 63 samples. I-VII mean the position of the community types in the ordination figure

Tab.3 Canonical and correlation coefficients of environmental variables with first two axes of de-trended canonical correspondence analysis (DCCA)

Fig.3 Two-dimensional de-trended canonical correspondence analysis (DCCA) ordination diagram of 63 samples in the Antaibao mining site. CON: conductivity; ORG: the soil organic matter.

Tab.4 Eigenvalues and species-environment correlation coefficients for the first two axes of DCA and DCCA

Tab.5 The species diversity indices (DIs) of different community types

Tab.6 Multi-factor linear regression of community diversity indices and environmental factors

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