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Implication of plant-soil relationships for conservation and restoration of copper-cobalt ecosystems
Faucon, Michel-Pierre; Le Stradic, Soizig; Boisson, Sylvain et al.
2015In Plant and Soil, p. 1-13
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Keywords :
Biodiversity conservation; Chemical soil factors; Endemism; Heavy metals; Metallophyte; Restoration ecology; Soil-plant interactions
Abstract :
[en] Background: Chemical soil factors play an important role in generating and maintaining plant diversity. Naturally metal-enriched habitats support highly distinctive plant communities consisting of many rare and endemic species. Species of these plant communities possess remarkable physiological adaptations and are now being considered key elements in the implementation of green technologies aimed at phytoremediation of contaminated soils and post-mined soils. Several studies have emphasised that industrial mineral extraction results in serious damage to ecosystems and serious threats to human health and leads to the extinction of metallophyte species. In the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), mining activities represent a threat to the long-term persistence of communities located on metalliferous copper and cobalt outcrops and their associated endemic metallophytes, which are currently considered some of the most critically endangered plants in the world. Scope: Plant diversity conservation of metal-rich soils must assess soil-plant relationships at different scales (ecosystems, communities, and populations) to define in-situ and ex-situ conservation and restoration projects. This paper proposes a review of soil-plant relationships involved in plant diversity and endemism and their implications for biodiversity conservation and restoration. © 2015 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
Disciplines :
Environmental sciences & ecology
Author, co-author :
Faucon, Michel-Pierre;  Hydrogeochimical Interactions Soil-Environment (HydrISE) Unit, Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais (ISAB-IGAL), 15 rue Pierre Waguet, Beauvais, France
Le Stradic, Soizig ;  Université de Liège > Ingénierie des biosystèmes (Biose) > Biodiversité et Paysage
Boisson, Sylvain ;  Université de Liège > Ingénierie des biosystèmes (Biose) > Biodiversité et Paysage
Wa Ilunga, E. I.;  Biodiversity and Landscape Unit, Biosystem Engineering Department (BIOSE), University of Liège, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, 2 Passage des Déportés, Gembloux, Belgium, Ecology, Restoration Ecology and Landscape research Unit, Faculty of Agronomy, University of Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic Congo
Seleck, Maxime  ;  Université de Liège > Ingénierie des biosystèmes (Biose) > Biodiversité et Paysage
Lange, B.;  Hydrogeochimical Interactions Soil-Environment (HydrISE) Unit, Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais (ISAB-IGAL), 15 rue Pierre Waguet, Beauvais, France, Laboratory of Plant Ecology and Biogeochemistry, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 Avenue F. Roosevelt, Brussels, Belgium
Guillaume, D.;  Laboratory of Plant Ecology and Biogeochemistry, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 Avenue F. Roosevelt, Brussels, Belgium
Shutcha, M. N.;  Ecology, Restoration Ecology and Landscape research Unit, Faculty of Agronomy, University of Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic Congo
Pourret, O.;  Hydrogeochimical Interactions Soil-Environment (HydrISE) Unit, Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais (ISAB-IGAL), 15 rue Pierre Waguet, Beauvais, France
Meerts, P.;  Laboratory of Plant Ecology and Biogeochemistry, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 Avenue F. Roosevelt, Brussels, Belgium
Mahy, Grégory ;  Université de Liège > Ingénierie des biosystèmes (Biose) > Biodiversité et Paysage
Language :
English
Title :
Implication of plant-soil relationships for conservation and restoration of copper-cobalt ecosystems
Publication date :
2015
Journal title :
Plant and Soil
ISSN :
0032-079X
eISSN :
1573-5036
Publisher :
Springer International Publishing
Pages :
1-13
Peer reviewed :
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