The influence of reclamation to malaco - assemblages of limestone quarry

Quarries fundamentally change the character of the landscape, both in the mined parts and in its immediate surroundings. Inside the mined areas, there are many different types of microbiotopes, their character is very different from the surrounding ecosystem. Destruction of original biotopes is an o...

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Published in:IOP conference series. Earth and environmental science 2017-10, Vol.92 (1), p.12034
Main Authors: Kupka, J, Svehlakova, H, Beranek, J, Lokajickova, B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Bioindicators
Biotopes
Devonian
Environmental degradation
Indicator species
Karst
Limestone
Mollusca
Mollusks
Plant communities
Quarries
Reclamation
Territory
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Summary:Quarries fundamentally change the character of the landscape, both in the mined parts and in its immediate surroundings. Inside the mined areas, there are many different types of microbiotopes, their character is very different from the surrounding ecosystem. Destruction of original biotopes is an opportunity for settlement by new plant and animal communities. To monitor these biodiversity changes in the landscape, appropriate groups of organisms are used. Only a bioindicator that is well processable from a taxonomic point of view and its demands on the environment and its distribution are well-known, gives reliable results. For these reasons, less moving molluscs are used in many works. The territory of the southern part of the Devonian limestone of the Moravian Karst is affected by the industrial mining of limestone. There is forest quarry in Lisen, which was ended in 1997 and a few years later reclamation work was started on parts of the mined area. The study of molluscs in this model territory was used to assess the impact of reclamation methods on the malaco - assemblage's diversity inside the quarry.
ISSN:1755-1307
1755-1315
DOI:10.1088/1755-1315/92/1/012034