Opencast coal mining has a series of consequences on land resources and places
enormous pressure on the ecological environment. Stripping, excavation, transportation and …

Saprophagous macroarthropods are usually described as litter transformers that have low
assimilation efficiencies and little direct effect on carbon mineralization. They are considered …

More than 50 parameters of vegetation, soil and soil fauna were studied in 27 non-reclaimed
post mining sites of various age (1–41years old) located near the town of Sokolov (Czech …

The effects of tree species differing in foliage and litter chemistry on the chemical, micro-
morphological, and biological properties of soil were studied on post-mining sites afforested …

Carbon storage in aboveground tree biomass and soil organic matter (in depth of A layer
development ie, up to 20 cm) was studied in 22–32 year-old post-mining sites in the …

Sediments were collected from the upper, middle and lower reaches of both urban and rural
rivers in a typical urbanization zone of the Pearl River delta. Six heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Cu …

Plants and soil biota are important ecosystem engineers interacting via plant-soil feedback
on large gradient of temporal scales from immediate interactions to long term legacy, which …

The generation of bauxite residue, the by-product of alumina manufacture from bauxite ore,
has increased to a global stockpile of some 3 billion tonnes. In the absence of significant …

We present a meta-analysis of experiments in which researchers used litter bags or similar
enclosures to explore three questions: Do soil macrofauna increase the removal of litter from …

Opencast coal mining has several environmental impacts, which require land rehabilitation
when mining operations are finished. For that reason, restoration after such extractive …