The effect of mine vegetation restoration can be improved by selecting native plants with excellent drought resistance and barren resistance. Based on the review of studies, to achieve vegetation restoration in mining areas, the type of plants has an important impact on the effect of vegetation restoration, ...
Mining regions often experience severe environmental deterioration, including vegetation loss, soil erosion, and quality reduction (Karaca et al. 2018). Certain measures like tree planting, agricultural reclamation, and other vegetation restoration programs can speed up soil repair and increase the biological richness of land degraded …
However, long-term water depletion and vegetation impacts can lead to desertification and change the local hydrogeology, reiterating the need to understand …
Despite the urgent demand for sustainable mining, the revegetation and rehabilitation of areas degraded by mining activities remain challenging. Uncertainties about species selection, the management and control of alien invasive species and monitoring procedures require ongoing multidisciplinary research.
The results show that the vegetation coverage of the mining area showed a decreasing trend from 2005 to 2021. Winter and spring precipitation was the primary factor affecting vegetation growth in the area, while coal mining had indirect and secondary effects on vegetation. Human activities played a significant role in improving …
The present work investigates the combined effects of the upstream sediment mining pit and vegetation on the riverbank using emergent rigid vegetation beyond the toe on the flow structure and ...
1. Introduction. As a major coal country with coal consumption accounting for 60% - 70% of energy consumption (Mallapaty, 2020; Wang and Li, 2016), China has faced a series of ecological problems such as rock destruction, surface deformation, groundwater level changes, and vegetation degradation (Wang et al., 2017).In recent years, the …
Groundwater and vegetation increases after mining are encouraging signs, especially for ecosystems in arid regions that depend heavily on groundwater. However, long-term water depletion and ...
The Mongolian Plateau in East Asia is one of the largest contingent arid and semi-arid areas of the world. Under the impacts of climate change and human activities, …
Establishment of plantations may be a useful means of vegetation reconstruction in coal mining areas, especially in fragile environments. However, the influence of shrub planting on the relationship between understory vegetation and soil microorganisms remains poorly understood.
Vegetation is an important part of the environment but may be subjected to disturbance in areas close to coal mines. This results in a slowing of the rate of biomass growth, which is caused by fading of vegetation. Simultaneously, carbon stored in vegetation is constantly released, weakening vegetation ability to act as a carbon sink. …
The primary impact was the direct removal of vegetation; however, the mining and dumping of tailings also altered soil profiles, changed the area's hydrology and topography, and altered the nutrient concentrations of the substrate. The changes in vegetation altered the rates of carbon and nitrogen cycling, the productivity of the …
vegetation, soil erosion and quality decline, are very common in mining areas [4]. Vegetation restoration projects, including tree planting, agricultural reclamation and other ventures, which could accelerate the natural restoration processes of soil and enhance biological diversity of land degradation by mined
In this study, taking a coal mining area as an example, three vegetation restoration modes were designed: Populus L., Ligustrum lucidum Ait., and Amygdalus persica L., and soil and plant ...
The impact of coal mining subsidence on the surface eco-environment can be characterized as the evolution of a complex system. The complexity and stochastic nature of the ecological background conditions (soil quality, vegetation distribution, and geological structure) and coal mining conditions (mining depth, seam thickness, and …
The WRF regional climate model has been widely used for both regional climate modeling and numerical weather predictions due to its flexible resolution and parameterization (Skamarock et al., 2008).We applied the land-atmosphere coupled Advanced Research WRF (ARW) model (version 3.6) to simulate the impacts of …
In the foreseeable future, akin to numerous energy sources in China and globally, the study watershed will persist in active coal mining. Understanding vegetation responses to these mining activities and concurrent climate-environment changes becomes imperative to sustain the fragile terrestrial ecosystem and socioeconomic development …
Mining activities decreased GS but increased the extracted water used for irrigating vegetation; thus, the biomass of vegetation ecosystems increased (NIEI, see Figures S6 and S7 in Supporting Information S1). Such an increase in the biomass of vegetation ecosystems, however, is temporary and expected to decrease due to the …
1. Introduction. Mineral demands for multiple purposes have increased in the last centuries, with mining activities causing profound alterations that can persist for a long time after mine closure (Kesler, 2007).Mining destroys the vegetation and soil profile, not only through soil excavation for mineral extraction but also through waste deposition; …
5th September 2024. By: Bloomberg. Font size: - +. Indonesia's government sees nickel prices stabilizing near current levels in the future, as new plants in the …
The study investigated the impact of mining on vegetation cover in the Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality using two-interval satellite images and predicted change for the year 2030. Land cover (forest and open vegetation) has significantly declined during the assessed period in the Municipality due to agriculture expansion, urbanization, and …
In restored mining vegetation, trees contributed 75.1% of carbon increments, though biomass was lower than natural forest. The soil layer had the highest carbon increment overall (69.5% ...
The revegetation of steep slopes after mining and infrastructure projects is not an easy task. To enhance the effectiveness of revegetation projects, the present study aimed to review (i) specific challenges of steep slope revegetation, (ii) ecological succession patterns in similar environments, (iii) soil conditioning and revegetation strategies to …
Scientists discovered a group of plants that accumulate significant amounts of critical minerals like nickel from the soil around them. Now, they're exploring mining …
Coal mining in arid western regions is damaging the fragile ecology, causing problems such as surface damage, vegetation destruction, and soil erosion. These issues are obstacles to the development of green coal, as mining activities can disrupt the distribution of surface vegetation, leading to its spread outside the mining area and …
The Stream Protection and Vegetation Restoration Act would require timely reclamation by setting enforceable deadlines for reclamation milestones, and improve inspections and monitoring protocols for surface water and ground water during mining and reclamation. Text of the Stream Protection and Vegetation Restoration Act is available …
Sources of the stream are mainly from springs or water discharges of karstic caves. Lots of historical mining adits distributed along or nearby the headwaters of the stream. 2.2. Sampling and sample preparationSoil samples, ... The vegetation samples were extensively cleaned using de-ionized water and air dried in the laboratory as soon …
The destruction of vegetation and soils when land is cleared for mining results in the release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Another important consideration relates to the quantity of greenhouse gases released per unit mass of mined material, as some less concentrated mineral deposits require proportionally higher …
The Bainaimiao Copper Mining Area (BCMA) is located in Baiyinchaoketu town, Dorbod banner, Ulanqab city, Inner Mongolia, with geographic coordinates ranging from 112° 25′ 48″ to 112° 35′ 35″ East Longitude and from 42° 10′ 36″ to 42° 16′ 15″ North Latitude (Fig. 1).Situated on the northern edge of Daqing Mountain, within the Yinshan …
The growing demand for minerals has pushed mining activities into new areas increasingly affecting biodiversity-rich natural biomes. Mapping the land use of the …
The tender, launched earlier this year, aims to develop plants in seven of Bolivia's 28 salt flats, including Uyuni, Coipasa, Pastos Grandes, Capina, Cañapa, …
There was an increase in soil pH (>8.0) after mining, while vegetation restoration decreased the soil pH compared with native grassland, and plant species with tolerance to alkaline soil should be selected for vegetation restoration on post-mining lands. Mining causes serious destruction of the surface morphology and soil structure of …
Mining operations often contaminate the soil with toxic heavy metals and acids. Acids can lower the pH of the soil, preventing plants and soil microorganisms from thriving, and can also react with various minerals in the soil that are required by plants, such as calcium and magnesium. The hydrogen ions from the acid absorb the soil particles ...
The clarification of the impact of human activities on vegetation in mining areas contributes to the harmonization of mining and environmental protection. This study utilized Geographically and Temporally Weighted Regression (GTWR) to establish a quantitative relationship among the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), …
In this study, we proposed a method called MMD to extract the mining disturbance on vegetation, and explored the driving mechanism between NDVI and natural, socio-economic and accessibility factors. The main results were as follows: (1) From 2000 to 2014, the decline rate of NDVI in the Fengfeng District was 0.0015/yr, and from 2014 …
I'm ready," he added. Home to the world's first coal-fired power station, opened in London in 1882, the UK is set to be the first G7 country to stop using coal to generate …
Some soils in the Yueliangbao gold mining area have been contaminated by heavy metals, resulting in variations in vegetation. Hyperspectral remote sensing provides a new perspective for heavy metal inversion in vegetation. In this paper, we collected ground truth spectral data of three dominant vegetation species, Miscanthus floridulus, …
Based on the characteristics of remote sensing images of mine vegetation, this research studied the application of deep belief network model in mine vegetation identification. Through vegetation identification and classification, the ecological environment index of mining area was determined according to the analysis of …