Effects of different ecological restoration methods on the soil physicochemical properties and vegetation community characteristics of the Baotou light rare earth tailings pond in Inner Mongolia, China

• Published in: Environmental science and pollution research international Vol. 31; no. 13; pp. 19725 - 19737
• Main Authors: Chen, Tianyu, Qu, Ning, Wang, Jinxiao, Liu, Yaochen, Feng, Jiao, Zhang, Shilei, Xu, Chunying, Cao, Zhiquan, Pan, Jun, Li, Chunlin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.03.2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aquatic Pollution; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Biomass; Bulk density; Earth and Environmental Science; Ecological effects; Ecotoxicology; Electrical conductivity; Electrical resistivity; Environment; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Health; Environmental restoration; Mine tailings; Moisture content; Physicochemical properties; Plants (botany); Ponds; Porosity; Principal components analysis; Redundancy; Research Article; Restoration; Soil density; Soil improvement; Soil investigations; Soil porosity; Soil properties; Soil structure; Soil water; Tailings; Vegetation; Waste Water Technology; Water content; Water Management; Water Pollution Control; Plant–soil interactions; Ecological restoration; Tailings pond; Vegetation diversity; Plant population and community dynamics; Spray seeding

This study investigated the soil physicochemical properties and vegetation community characteristics of the Baotou light rare earth tailings pond after 10 years of aggregate spray seeding ecological restoration (S1) and ordinary soil spray seeding ecological restoration (S2), and the naturally resto...