Using phytostabilisation to conserve threatened endemic species in southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Published in: Ecological research Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 789 - 798
• Main Authors: Boisson, Sylvain, Séleck, Maxime, Le Stradic, Soizig, Collignon, Julien, Garin, Olivier, Malaisse, François, Shutcha, Mylor Ngoy, Mahy, Grégory
• Format: Journal Article Web Resource
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo Springer Japan 01.07.2018; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Ecological Society of Japan; Springer Tokyo
• Subjects: Bare rich-soil; Behavioral Sciences; Bioavailability; Biodiversity; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Cobalt; Conservation; Copper endemic; Copper ores; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Ecology; Emergence; Endemic species; Environmental Sciences; Environmental sciences & ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Exploitation; Facilitation; Flowers & plants; Forestry; grasses; Growing season; Heavy metals; hyperaccumulators; indigenous species; Interspecific; Interspecific relationships; Life Sciences; Metals; Microchloa; Mining; Outcrops; perennials; phytoremediation; Phytostabilisation; Plant cover; Plant Sciences; polluted soils; Public health; Rare species; Sciences de l’environnement & écologie; Sciences du vivant; seedling emergence; Seedlings; Soil; Soil amendment; soil amendments; Soil pollution; Special Feature; Success; Survival; Threatened species; Vegetation; Vegetation cover; Zoology; Congo-Democratic Republic of Congo; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Phytostabilisation; Copper endemic; Facilitation; Conservation; Bare rich-soil

Outcrops in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are recognized as some of the largest copper–cobalt orebodies in the world. They support a unique vegetation with nearly 600 metallophytes that include rare and endemic species. Mineral exploitation has increased considerably in the...