%0 Journal article
%A Betancur-Corredor, Bibiana
%A Loaiza-Usuga, Juan Carlos
%A Denich, Manfred
%A Borgemeister, Christian
%T Changes of Technosol properties and vegetation structure along a chronosequence of dredged sediment deposition in areas with alluvial gold mining in Colombia
%R 10.1007/s11368-019-02551-9
%J Journal of Soils and Sediments
%V 20
%N 5

%I Springer Berlin Heidelberg
%X Purpose: Alluvial gold mining leaves a vast amount of dredged sediment that covers the natural soil, destroys riparian ecosystems, and impacts riverbeds and valleys. In Colombia, more than 80,000 ha are covered by dredged sediment. Technosols developed from such deposits undergo strong transformations during the early stages of formation due to the diverse nature of the constituents. The aims of this study are (i) to investigate changes in soil morphological and physicochemical properties at early stages of pedogenesis, (ii) to estimate the variability of size structure distribution of the new plant cover as affected by the time period since establishment and deposit type, and (iii) to determine which soil parameters correlate best with the size structure distribution of vegetation.
%U http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/10598
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