Vegetation Development in Central European Coal Mining Sites

• Published in: Soil Biota and Ecosystem Development in Post Mining Sites pp. 38 - 52
• Main Author: Prach, Karel
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom CRC Press 2014; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY; Molecular biology

Mining activity despoils ca. 1% of the land surface (Walker 1999) and coal mining, especially that by the open-cast manner, contributes substantially to this figure. Technical reclamation of post-mining sites has usually prevailed, consisting of rough manipulations of the substrates, such as re-mode...