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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (23): 60-65.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb20191100791

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Relationship Between Typical Physical Properties of Reclaimed Soil and Biomass in Grassland Opencast Mine Area

Wang Dangchao(), Shang Zhi, She Changchao   

  1. Shenhua Beidian Shengli Energy Co., Ltd., Xilinhot Inner Mongolia 026000
  • Received:2019-11-04 Revised:2019-12-30 Online:2020-08-15 Published:2020-08-13

Abstract:

Taking the No.1 opencast coal mine in Shengli, Inner Mongolia as an example, the reclamation land on the south and north mine dumps as the research objects and the undamaged land as the control, variance analysis and Pearson correlation analysis were conducted to study the relationship between typical physical properties of reclaimed soil (soil bulk density and soil moisture content) and above-ground biomass of vegetation, aiming to provide practical support for soil and vegetation reconstruction in grassland mining area. The results indicated that: (1) the correlation intensity of soil bulk density and moisture content in reclaimed land was slightly lower than that of undamaged land, and the negative correlation was more significant by the longer reclamation time; (2) the mean value of vegetation biomass in reclaimed land was higher than that of undamaged land, and the soil environmental factors after reclamation promoted the reconstruction of the ecosystem of dump; (3) at 0-10 cm soil layer, the soil bulk density was negatively correlated with the moisture content, and had very weak or was irrelevant with biomass, but the vegetation biomass had a significantly positive correlation with the moisture content, which indicated that the surface soil moisture content was an important factor affecting vegetation biomass.

Key words: land reclamation, soil reconstruction, soil bulk density, soil moisture content, biomass, dump

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