Zpravodaj Hnědé uhlí 2016, 56(4)
Importance of woody species cultivated on mining dump sites for pedology and landscape formation
All human activity is always inseparably linked with various impacts on the inhabited landscape and its natural components in the system: the soil-water-vegetation-climate. These natural components are one of the major focus of the Department of garden and landscape architecture of ČZU (Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague). The technology of the raw material extraction, in our case, the coal seams (hard coal, brown coal, lignite), has been constantly improved since mid-17th century. Its development has gone through a number of stages influenced by social need for coal. Historically, whether underground mining (Ostrava-Karviná region, Kladno region) or open cast mining (North-West Bohemia) influence with varying degrees the above mentioned natural components. The study of the complex structure of the relationships between these essential components with varying degrees of damage caused by mining activities was the very complex task, directly interdisciplinary task. The main accent In all corrective measures, i.e.. the formation of soils, water systems and vegetation cover in particular in the form of forestry reclamation of mining dump sites using tree species of deciduous and coniferous types was emphasised on soil forming processes, on resistance to air pollutant immissions and their significance for landscape formation. On the basis of a very rich dendrological pool, the particular methods of afforestation were selected using tree species with great adaptation on atypical mining dump localities.
Keywords: landscape formation, dendroflora of mining dump sites, anthropogenic substrate, mining dump site, reclamation, reclamation typology
Published: December 1, 2016 Show citation