The effects of various land reclamation scenarios on the succession of soil Bacteria, Archaea, and fungi over the short and long term

Ecological restoration of mining areas has mainly focused on the succession dynamics of vegetation and the fate of microbial communities remains poorly understood. We examined changes in soil characteristics and plant and microbial communities with increasing reclamation period in an open coal mine....

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Main Authors: Junjian eLi, Feng eLiu, Jianwen eChen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fevo.2016.00032/full