Plant Cover and Soil Biochemical Properties in a Mine Tailing Pond Five Years After Application of Marble Wastes and Organic Amendments
Plant Cover and Soil Biochemical Properties in a Mine Tailing Pond Five Years After Application of Marble Wastes and Organic Amendments作者机构:Sustainable UseManagementand Reclamation of Soil and Water Research Group.Department of Agrarian Science and Technology.Technical University of Cartagena.Paseo Alfonso XIII5230203 Cartagena.Murcia(Spain) Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana.Environmental Research Group.Circular 1a No.70-01.Medelín(Colombia)
出 版 物:《Pedosphere》 (土壤圈(英文版))
年 卷 期:2012年第22卷第1期
页 面:22-32页
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学科分类:082802[工学-农业水土工程] 08[工学] 0828[工学-农业工程] 0818[工学-地质资源与地质工程] 0903[农学-农业资源与环境] 0901[农学-作物学]
基 金:Supported by the European Union FP7 the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain
主 题:hydrolase activities metal pollution microbial biomass organic amendments remediation
摘 要:Tailing ponds pose environmental hazards, such as toxic metals which can contaminate the surroundings through wind and water erosions and leaching. Various chemical and biochemical properties, together with extractable and soluble metals were measured five years after reclamation of a polluted soil affected by former mining activities. This abandoned mine site contains large amounts of Fe-oxyhydroxides, sulphates, and heavy metals. As a consequence, soils remain bare and the soil organic matter content is low (〈 3 g kg-1). Marble waste, pig manure and sewage sludge were applied in 2004. Plant cover and richness, and soil chemical, biochemical and biological parameters were analysed five years later. Results showed that all soil biochemical properties as well as vegetation cover and richness were higher in treated soils than in the untreated contaminated plots (control), although organic matter, pH values and extractable metals concentrations were similar among treatments. Soluble cadmium and zinc were lower in the amended plots than in control.