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Ecological Restoration Techniques for Management of Degraded, Mined-Out Areas and the Role Played by Rhizospheric Microbial Communities

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Restoration of degraded lands is an ecological, socio-economic, legal and national prerogative. Rebuilding healthy and resilient soils in such environments along with complex above- and below-ground biota for maintenance of ecosystem is required for establishment, growth, productivity and desired trajectories of succession of native plant communities at restoration sites. Complex networks that connect above- and below-ground ecosystems involve the rhizosphere in processes of mineralization and nutrient cycling. Such massive efforts need to be monitored by studying changes over time in native vegetation cover using on ground and remote sensing-based methods, changes in soil conditions and succession in bulk and rhizospheric microbial communities. These communities respond to the plant and soil types in which they occur and their interactions likely involve utilization of plant exudates, carbon sequestration, and available matter through detritus, etc. This chapter provides a brief insight into need for ecologically restoring sites, factors influencing them, the choice or selection of species for undertaking such a work, indicators of ecological restoration that can be applied for monitoring purposes and some of the popular models of ecological restoration in India that have been successfully established, and the techniques used in these models. In the end, it briefly summarizes the importance of soil microbial diversity as a driver of above- and below-ground biodiversity and the linkages between them.

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Pant, P., Pant, P. (2017). Ecological Restoration Techniques for Management of Degraded, Mined-Out Areas and the Role Played by Rhizospheric Microbial Communities. In: Singh, R., Kumar, S. (eds) Green Technologies and Environmental Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50654-8_19

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