2020
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.3570
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Is underground coal mining causing land degradation and significantly damaging ecosystems in semi‐arid areas? A study from an Ecological Capital perspective

Abstract: Coal mining often brings negative impacts to land and eco‐environments. How to quantitatively evaluate this impact at a regional scale, and assess its related influences in mining and nonmining areas from an ecological viewpoint is important and a challenge. The Shendong Mining Area (SMA) at the junction region of Shaanxi Province and Inner Mongolia Autonomous region in northern China is a typical semi‐arid region. Remote sensing (RS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) were used to construct an ecosystem … Show more

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“…The shrub community can tolerate poorer conditions related to terrain, slope, and soil thickness than the tree community, which enables the shrub community to remain relatively stable under the effect of underground mining (Götmark, Götmark, & Jensen, 2016;Liu et al, 2011). Previous studies also found a similar increase in vegetation indicators, showing that the vegetation within a mining area has improved plant diversity, abundance, coverage, and other indicators after underground mining (Dolný & Harabiš, 2012;Harabiš, 2016;Xiao, Zhang, Ye, Lv, & Yang, 2018). The intermediate disturbance hypothesis was commonly used to explain this kind of increase, which indicates that plant diversity and species richness would peak when a plant community faces disturbance (Catford et al, 2012;Connell, 1978).…”
Section: Responses Of Different Types Of Plant Communities To Underground Miningmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…The shrub community can tolerate poorer conditions related to terrain, slope, and soil thickness than the tree community, which enables the shrub community to remain relatively stable under the effect of underground mining (Götmark, Götmark, & Jensen, 2016;Liu et al, 2011). Previous studies also found a similar increase in vegetation indicators, showing that the vegetation within a mining area has improved plant diversity, abundance, coverage, and other indicators after underground mining (Dolný & Harabiš, 2012;Harabiš, 2016;Xiao, Zhang, Ye, Lv, & Yang, 2018). The intermediate disturbance hypothesis was commonly used to explain this kind of increase, which indicates that plant diversity and species richness would peak when a plant community faces disturbance (Catford et al, 2012;Connell, 1978).…”
Section: Responses Of Different Types Of Plant Communities To Underground Miningmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…(1) Unscientific mining methods have caused irreversible damage to mines and the surrounding environment [50]. All of the mines that were planned to use underground mining have ignored the requirements and continued to mine coal in an open-pit manner.…”
Section: Lessons Learnedmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In 2020, China's coal output was 3.902 billion tons, an increase of 1.20% from 2019, and the coal consumption was 4.30 billion tons, an increase of 0.30% over 2019, which accounted for 50.40% and 54.30% of global output and consumption, respectively (Khan & Osińska, 2021). The exploitation and utilization of coal seams have ensured economic benefits and energy security (Xiao et al, 2020). However, these activities also have a series of negative effects on the environment of mining areas (Aznar‐Sánchez et al, 2019; Dang et al, 2021; Li et al, 2019; Liu et al, 2021; Wang et al, 2021a) and have restricted the sustainable land use in mining areas (Gao et al, 2021).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%