Recovery in soil cover and vegetation structure after ancient landslide in mountain fens under Caltho-Alnetum community and response of soil microarthropods (Hexapoda: Collembola) to natural restoration process

Nicia, Paweł; Bejger, Romualda; Sterzyńska, Maria; Zadrożny, Paweł; Parzych, Piotr; Bieda, Agnieszka; Kwartnik-Pruc, Anita

doi:10.1007/s11368-019-02434-z

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“…Remote sensing has become a routine approach for land surface water bodies and vegetation monitoring because the acquired data can provide high-quality information, which is substantially different from conventional in situ measurements [40,41]. Various methods, including unsupervised and supervised classification and spectral water indexes, have been developed to extract water bodies from different remote sensing images.…”

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Monitoring of Water Bodies and Non-vegetated Areas in Selenica – Albania with Sar and Optical Images

Belba

Kucaj²,

Thanas³

2022

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The availability of Sentinel satellites for providing open data with optical and SAR imagery leads to better opportunities related to Earth surface mapping and monitoring. Recently, optical fusion with radar data has shown improvement in classification quality and the accuracy of information acquired. In this setting, the main objective of this research is to monitor the environmental impact of an open-pit mine on water, vegetation, and non-vegetation areas by exploring the single and combined use of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data. The data utilized in this paper were collected from the European Space Agency Copernicus program. After selecting the Selenica region, we explored the products in the Sentinel Application Platform. According to our data, Sentinel-2 misses the small water ponds but successfully identifies the river and open-pit areas. It mistakenly identifies urban structures and cloud areas as non-vegetated and does not identify non-vegetated areas which correspond to mining operation areas. Sentinel-1 identifies very small water ponds and delivers additional information in the cloudy areas, but misses a part of the river. Alongside the strong contribution in identifying the vegetation, it also roughly identifies the non-vegetation areas of mining operations.

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Monitoring of Water Bodies and Non-vegetated Areas in Selenica – Albania with Sar and Optical Images

Belba

Kucaj²,

Thanas³

2022

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“…A study of landslide areas on Hawai'i Island suggests that vegetation may require more than 124 years to reach pre-disturbance levels (Restrepo et al, 2003). Mountain fens in Poland at sites more than 200 years after landslide occurrence appear to have not completed recovery of their plant communities (Nicia et al, 2020). A study conducted in Russian high-latitude tundra vegetation areas where decades to millennia have passed since landslides occurred indicates that it takes several thousand years for the vegetation to develop sub-climax and especially climax communities.…”

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A landscape-level study on vegetation richness of ancient landslide areas

Takaoka

2023

Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment

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Landslides have received significant attention as an important natural disturbance that maintains biodiversity, but most previous studies have focused on the early stages of succession during years or decades in sites or small watersheds. The present study aimed to determine what regional drivers influence long-term ecological succession in large, ancient landslide scarps across a mountainous region in Japan. A landscape-level analysis of 993 landslide scarps using GIS revealed that climatic factors, especially snowfall, are important regional drivers of vegetation development on landslide head scarps in the region. While vegetation has developed on ancient landslide scarps, not all of them have returned to their pre-landslide vegetation state even though hundreds or thousands of years may have passed. The relationship between the number of vegetation types and maximum snow depth shows that where the maximum snow depth is less than 100 cm, more than 50% of the landslide scarps are covered by one type of vegetation, and the percentage of scarps covered by one type of vegetation decreases with increasing snow cover. The deeper the snow, the more vegetation types tend to develop on the landslide scarps. Since forest vegetation cannot develop due to heavy snow, meadows, grasslands, and shrublands are found on the scarps. It is concluded that the combined effects of both landslide-caused disturbances and climatic factors are creating regional diversity in vegetation types.

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“…Moreover, the restoration of biodiversity may also take a large amount of time [7,8]. The degradation of mountain hydrogenic habitats is not always the result of their drainage: it might be caused, for instance, by landslides due to agriculture-related erosion [9]. Provided the degradation of hydrogenic habitats is not advanced, and such habitats have not been drained by deep ditches, it is possible to improve them by applying simple restoration techniques.…”

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Passive Restoration of the Mountain Fens of the Caltho‑Alnetum Community in the Babia Góra National Park

Nicia¹,

Bejger²,

Sterzyńska

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Hydrogenic habitats play important ecological roles, particularly in mountain areas. In mountain areas, surface layers typically contain large concentrations of organic matter and are capable of accumulating large volumes of water. This has a positive impact on water management. Due to its specific properties, the soil in hydrogenic habitats supports many rare and often listed species of fauna and flora. Such hydrogenic habitats include: low sedge mountain fens and mountain fens of the Caltho‑Alnetum community which, despite their limited areas, have a positive impact on biodiversity. In the 20th century, drainage due to land use changes caused the degradation of many such habitats. As a result, soils from the organic matter accumulation phase entered the decay phase. A consequence of the change in habitat conditions is the extinction of many plant and animal species of narrow ecological amplitude, usually classified as stenotopic species. To prevent the degradation of hydrogenic habitats, it is necessary to start their restoration processes, which should be the most effective and possibly least intrusive. The work discusses both the methodology and restoration procedures of selected degraded habitats of mountain fen of the Caltho‑Alnetum community in the Babia Góra National Park and presented the impact of those procedures on the water levels.

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Recovery in soil cover and vegetation structure after ancient landslide in mountain fens under Caltho-Alnetum community and response of soil microarthropods (Hexapoda: Collembola) to natural restoration process

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References 29 publications

Monitoring of Water Bodies and Non-vegetated Areas in Selenica – Albania with Sar and Optical Images

Monitoring of Water Bodies and Non-vegetated Areas in Selenica – Albania with Sar and Optical Images

A landscape-level study on vegetation richness of ancient landslide areas

Passive Restoration of the Mountain Fens of the Caltho‑Alnetum Community in the Babia Góra National Park

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