Dynamic changes in soil and vegetation during varying ecological-recovery conditions of abandoned mines in Beijing》.pdf

Ecological Engineering 73 (2014) 676–683 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Ecological Engineering journal homepage: /locate/ecoleng Dynamic changes in soil and vegetation during varying ecological- recovery conditions of abandoned mines in Beijing a a,* a,b a c Yan Zhang , Jian-ying Yang , Hai-long Wu , Chang-qing Shi , Cheng-liang Zhang , Dan-xiong Li a, Ming-ming Feng d a College of Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China b College of environmental science and security engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjing 300384, China c Environmental Protection Research Institute of Light Industry, Beijing 100089, China d Broadvision Engineering Consultants, Kunming 650011, China A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: Vegetation restoration in abandoned mines is very difficult and time consuming because of the harshness Received 11 February 2014 of the ecosystem, i.e., the extremely high and steep slopes. To accelerate the process of vegetation Received in revised form 13 September 2014 recovery in abandoned mines, understanding the rules of vegetation succession and the variation in soil Accepted 29 September 2014 characteristics during this process is very important. In the Zhoukoudian vegetation restoration Available online xxx