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Ecodynamics of anthropogenic mining provinces: From degradation to rehabilitation

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The unity, interrelationship, and interdependence of the processes proceeding in anthropogenic provinces caused by the activity of mining industries are considered from the viewpoint of the concept of hierarchical passivity of natural components. The processes of degradation of natural complexes under the influence of mining industries and the processes of rehabilitation of the vegetation cover when the anthropogenic pressure decreases are analyzed taking the ZAO Karabashmed’, Chelyabinsk region, and the Severonikel’ Combine, Murmansk region, as examples. The intrinsic potential of rehabilitation of natural systems (air, water, and soil) is assessed, and the most passive components are identified. A strategy of reclamation of disturbed territories is enunciated based on the information obtained taking the natural self-recovering ability of ecosystems in different climate zones into account.

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  1. Research Institute of Comprehensive Exploitation of Mineral Resources, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kryukovskii tupik 4, Moscow, 111020, Russia

    G. V. Kalabin

  2. Vernadskii Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Kosygina 19, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    T. I. Moiseenko

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Original Russian Text © G.V. Kalabin, T.I. Moiseenko, 2011, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2011, Vol. 437, No. 3, pp. 398–403.

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Kalabin, G.V., Moiseenko, T.I. Ecodynamics of anthropogenic mining provinces: From degradation to rehabilitation. Dokl. Earth Sc. 437, 432–436 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X1103024X

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