Opencast coal mining has a series of consequences on land resources and places
enormous pressure on the ecological environment. Strip**, excavation, transportation and …

Mining industry is closely linked with sustainable development, which leads to positive and
negative impacts of this industry on three key principles of sustainable development …

Slope gradient and land use change are known to influence soil quality and the assessment
of soil quality is important in determining sustainable land-use and soil-management …

Defining clear goals for ecosystem restoration, and develo** effective tools to assess and
monitor progress, are critical to achieve restoration success. Soil quality indicators can be …

Soil quality indices (SQIs) were an important tool for evaluating agro-ecosystems.
Salinization and alkalization are major environmental problems that have threatened …

A thorough knowledge of soil functionality is critical to successful restoration of disturbed
ecosystems, and its evaluation involves the assessment of soil properties and processes as …

Success in the remediation of mine spoil depends largely on the selection of appropriate
tree species. The impacts of remediation on mine soil quality cannot be sufficiently assessed …

Tropical forests are among the most diverse ecosystems in the world, completed by huge
biodiversity. An expansion in natural resource extraction through open-pit mining activities …

Large scale surface coal mining activities resulted disturbance of the local ecosystem by
creating different land uses that alter soil properties and hydrological balance of the mining …

The development of soil quality index in the vicinity of the Van Lake pasture lands located in
the Northern East Part of Turkey under semi-arid terrestrial ecosystem is very important …