Finding and Testing Ant Assemblages as Indicators of Recovery Successions in Coal-Affected Areas

Svetlana Blinova,Tatiana Dobrydina,Sergey Luzyanin,S Zhironkin,D Szurgacz,N Demirel,S Vöth,S Spearing,J Janocko,L Sobik,M Cehlár

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202127802002

Abstract

We studied the species richness of ants and types of nests on dumps of different ages formed by waste from the coal mining industry in the taiga and forest-steppe zones of Kemerovo Region, the Russian Federation. It was revealed that only underground nests of L. niger, the prevalence of species with a wide ecological valence, which belong to the ubiquist group, and groups of species with an adaptive type of response to anthropogenic pressure, act as indicators of initial successions. It was revealed that the following indicators act as indicators of the initial successions: the presence of only underground nests of L. niger, the predominance of species with a wide ecological valence (ubiquist) and species with an adaptive type of response to anthropogenic pressure.

Highlights

The study of the bioindication capabilities of living things is one of the current issues
We studied the species richness of ants and types of nests on dumps of different ages formed by waste from the coal mining industry in the taiga and forest-steppe zones of Kemerovo Region, the Russian Federation
It was revealed that only underground nests of L. niger, the prevalence of species with a wide ecological valence, which belong to the ubiquist group, and groups of species with an adaptive type of response to anthropogenic pressure, act as indicators of initial successions

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Introduction

The study of the bioindication capabilities of living things is one of the current issues The search for such objects is a topical research in connection with the increase in anthropogenic pressure, on the one hand, and the need to track demutational processes, i.e. the processes of ecosystem restoration to the state close to the initial one, on the other hand. The importance of these studies is especially obvious on the territory of Kemerovo Region (Russia), where more than 4 % of the entire territory is subject to anthropogenic transformation due to the extraction of coal by open and underground methods. Open mining gives the maximum production of coal; and more than 60 % is Kuzbass coal [2]

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