Use of phytoproductivity data in the choice of native plant species to restore a degraded coal mining site amended with a stabilized industrial organic sludge

Coal mining-related activities result in a degraded landscape and sites associated with large amounts of dumped waste material. The arid soil resulting from acid mine drainage affects terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and thus, site remediation programs must be implemented to mitigate this sequent...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Environmental science and pollution research international 2017-11, Vol.24 (31), p.24624-24633
Main Authors: Chiochetta, Claudete G., Toumi, Hela, Böhm, Renata F. S., Engel, Fernanda, Poyer-Radetski, Gabriel, Rörig, Leonardo R., Adani, Fabrizio, Radetski, Claudemir M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acid mine drainage
Acidic soils
Agrochemicals
Aquatic ecosystems
Aquatic Pollution
Aridity
Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution
Biodegradation, Environmental
Biomass
Biota
Citharexylum myrianthum
Coal mines
Coal Mining
Colonization
Criteria
Degradation
Earth and Environmental Science
Ecotoxicology
Environment
Environmental Chemistry
Environmental conditions
Environmental Health
Environmental science
Eugenia uniflora
Fertilizers
Flowers & plants
Herbivores
Indigenous plants
Nutrient content
Nutrients
Organic matter
Peroxidase
Peroxidase - metabolism
Plant biomass
Plant Development
Plant Proteins - metabolism
Plant species
Plant tissues
Plants (botany)
Plants - classification
Plants - enzymology
Plants - metabolism
Prunus cerasus
Research Article
Schinus terebinthifolius
Sewage - chemistry
Sludge
Soil - chemistry
Soil conditioners
Soil conditions
Soil contamination
Soil degradation
Soil microorganisms
Soil mixtures
Soil Pollutants - analysis
Soil stabilization
Soils
Species
Terrestrial environments
Waste Disposal Facilities
Waste materials
Waste Water Technology
Water Management
Water Pollution Control
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Coal mining-related activities result in a degraded landscape and sites associated with large amounts of dumped waste material. The arid soil resulting from acid mine drainage affects terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and thus, site remediation programs must be implemented to mitigate this sequential deleterious processes. A low-cost alternative material to counterbalance the affected physico-chemical-microbiological aspects of the degraded soil is the amendment with low contaminated and stabilized industrial organic sludge. The content of nutrients P and N, together with stabilized organic matter, makes this material an excellent fertilizer and soil conditioner, fostering biota colonization and succession in the degraded site. However, choice of native plant species to restore a degraded site must be guided by some minimal criteria, such as plant survival/adaptation and plant biomass productivity. Thus, in this 3-month study under environmental conditions, phytoproductivity tests with five native plant species (Surinam cherry Eugenia uniflora L . , C. myrianthum – Citharexylum myrianthum , Inga – Inga spp., Brazilian peppertree Schinus terebinthifolius , and Sour cherry Prunus cerasus ) were performed to assess these criteria, and additional biochemical parameters were measured in plant tissues (i.e., protein content and peroxidase activity) exposed to different soil/sludge mixture proportions. The results show that three native plants were more adequate to restore vegetation on degraded sites: Surinam cherry, C. myrianthum , and Brazilian peppertree. Thus, this study demonstrates that phytoproductivity tests associated with biochemical endpoint measurements can help in the choice of native plant species, as well as aiding in the choice of the most appropriate soil/stabilized sludge proportion in order to optimize biomass production.
ISSN:0944-1344
1614-7499
DOI:10.1007/s11356-017-0128-6