Succession pattern at two mineralogically different spoil heaps in Central Slovakia

Širka, Pavel, 1990- Succession pattern at two mineralogically different spoil heaps in Central Slovakia / Pavel Širka, Silvia Bittnerová, Ingrid Turisová. -- Plants colonize post-mining areas such as spoil heaps even without human interference, by spontaneous succession. Knowledge of this process, its direction and role in shaping the vegetation is desirable not only from an ecological point of view but also in the application of remediation techniques of such environmental burdens. The aim of our study was to analyse plant species composition and to describe a succession pattern at two mineralogically different spoil heaps near the city of Banska Bystrica (central Slovakia). Hierarchical cluster analysis was used in PC-ORD software to classify physiognomic vegetation types (PVT) at heaps and synoptic tables were generated in Juice software according to species percentage of frequency and their median cover. At the Hg-heap Velka studna we recorded a total of 335 taxa of vascular plants and 83 taxa of bryophytes within 21 identified PVT, which were grouped into 4 clusters (forest, wetland, grassland and ruderal cluster). A total of 111 taxa

In Biologia. -- Cham : Springer, 2018. -- ISSN 0006-3088. -- ISSN 1336-9563. -- Vol. 73, no. 9 (2018), pp. 809-820

1. Cu-spoil heap 2. Hg-spoil heap 3. ekologická sukcesia 4. species composition 5. Slovensko

I. Bittnerová, Silvia
II. Turisová, Ingrid, Ondrejová, 1965-
III. Biologia. -- Vol. 73, no. 9 (2018), pp. 809-820

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