Terrestrial Wildlife in the Post-mined Appalachian Landscape: Status and Opportunities

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dc.contributor.authorLituma, Christopher M.en
dc.contributor.authorCox, John J.en
dc.contributor.authorSpear, Stephen F.en
dc.contributor.authorEdwards, John W.en
dc.contributor.authorDe La Cruz, Jesse L.en
dc.contributor.authorMuller, Lisa I.en
dc.contributor.authorFord, W. Marken
dc.contributor.departmentConservation Management Instituteen
dc.contributor.editorZipper, Carl E.en
dc.contributor.editorSkousen, Jeffen
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-23T15:20:22Zen
dc.date.available2021-08-23T15:20:22Zen
dc.date.issued2021en
dc.date.updated2021-08-23T15:20:22Zen
dc.description.abstractCoal mining is an anthropogenic stressor that has impacted terrestrial and semi-aquatic wildlife in the Appalachian Plateau since European settlement. Creation of grassland and early-successional habitats resulting from mining in a forested landscape has resulted in novel, non-analog habitat conditions. Depending on the taxa, the extent of mining on the landscape, and reclamation practices, effects have ranged across a gradient of negative to positive. Forest-obligate species such as woodland salamanders and forest-interior birds or those that depend on aquatic systems in their life cycle have been most impacted. Others, such as grassland and early-successional bird species have responded favorably. Some bat species, as an unintended consequence, use legacy deep mines as winter hibernacula in a region with limited karst geology. Recolonization of impacted wildlife often depends on life strategies and species’ vagility, but also on altered or arrested successional processes on the post-surface mine landscape. Many wildlife species will benefit from Forest Reclamation Approach practices going forward. In the future, managers will be faced with decisions about reforestation versus maintaining open habitats depending on the conservation need of species. Lastly, the post-mined landscape currently is the focal point for a regional effort to restore elk (Cervus canadensis) in the Appalachians.en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.extentPages 135-166en
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57780-3_6en
dc.identifier.isbn9783030577797en
dc.identifier.orcidFord, Mark [0000-0002-9611-594X]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/104692en
dc.publisherSpringeren
dc.relation.ispartofAppalachia's Coal-Mined Landscapesen
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57780-3_6en
dc.rightsPublic Domainen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/en
dc.titleTerrestrial Wildlife in the Post-mined Appalachian Landscape: Status and Opportunitiesen
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pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Tech/Natural Resources & Environmenten
pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Tech/Natural Resources & Environment/Conservation Management Instituteen
pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Tech/Natural Resources & Environment/Fish and Wildlife Conservationen
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