Rehabilitation potential of a mine spoil trhough revegetation and microbial management. / Potencial de reabilitação do solo de uma área degradada, através da revegetação e do manejo microbiano.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2004

RESUMO

The increasing degraded soil areas caused by open cast mining activities has brought critical damages to the environment. The mine spoil must be ameliorated with anthropogenic interferences, consisting of revegetating soils, introducing organic matter and microbial diversity, basic conditions for a sustainable soil biological activity. The objective of this thesis was to evaluate the rehabilitation potential of a mine spoil area by cultivating fast growing plant species and inoculating rhizobia and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, in the presense or absence of organic compost or thermophosphate. Thus, six plant species were cultivated under green-house conditions, to evaluate the potential of plant establishment on a cassiterite mining waste. Shoot height and dry weight, substrate pH, N and P shoot content, external mycelium and root nodule numbers and dry weight were determined. Fertilization with organic compost and mycorrhizal inoculation improved shoot dry weight of C. cajan, A. mangium and S. terebinthifolia and root nodule dry weight of the nodulating legumes. N and P shoot contents were higher in plants that were inoculated with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and fertilized with organic compost. The soil pH after cultivation was always much higher than the initial pH, somewhat in the presense of organic compost and mycorrhizal inoculation of plants. External mycelium in the mining waste increased with mycorrhizal inoculation. We can conclude that for a successful revegetation of cassiterite mining spoil the addition of organic matter is essencial for plant and microrganism establishment. It provides a better nutrient cycling and improves chemical and physical substrate characteristics. Plants inoculated with mycorrhizal fungi and growing in the presense of compost developded much better than non-mycorrhizal plants. Species selected for revegetation should be preferencially mycotrohphic and nodulating legumes as they will grow well even without the use of expensive fertilizers and management practices.

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fixação simbiótica de nitrogênio fungos microrrízicos soil management solos degradação do solo microbiology revegetation soils mycorrhizal fungi soil degradation manejo do solo nitrogen symbiotic fixation revegetação microbiologia

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