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Inland Coal Mine Settling Pond as a Habitat for the Brackish-Water Plant Ruppia maritima

Halabowski D., Sowa A., Krodkiewska M.

Polish Journal of Ecology

2018

Vol. 66, nr 3

301--308

The research conducted in settling ponds located in the coal basin in Upper Silesia (southern Poland), detected in one of them presence of the widgeon grass Ruppia maritima. Currently, it is the only inland site of this species in Poland. The widgeon grass creates underwater meadows in the shore zone of the settling pond and it grows in dense communities together with the common reed Phragmites australis in the coastal zone. Apart from these two plants, no other species were found. The morphological features of the vegetative and generative organs of the studied population of R. maritima is similar to those that have been reported from Europe. The bottom of the pond is atypical for R. maritima – it is covered by mine waste. The water of the settling pond has a high salinity and the water chemistry corresponds to the more natural environments that are inhabited by widgeon grass. This substitute habitat, which imitates the natural environment of R. maritima contributes to the good development of these species. However the studied settling pond offers unstable conditions due to the ongoing mining activity and requires permanent monitoring.

Macroinvertebrate communities on various microhabitats of a saline coal mine settling pond

Sowa A., Krodkiewska M., Halabowski D.

Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies

2018

Vol. 47, No. 1

50--59

To date, no studies have been conducted on macroinvertebrate communities in coal mine settling ponds used for temporary retention of saline mine waters. The objective of the research was to evaluate which habitat – Ruppia maritima, Phragmites australis or sediments without macrophytes – is the most favorable for the abundance and biomass of macroinvertebrate communities. The study was carried out in a hyposaline settling pond located in a mining and urban area in southern Poland. At this time, it is the only inland locality of R. maritima in Poland. In the studied coal mine settling pond, the non-native, euryhaline amphipod Gammarus tigrinus dominated in the communities on all the habitats. The abundance of other taxa was small and similar on each type of substrate; only Corixidae were much more abundant on the widgeongrass beds. The highest abundance and biomass of macroinvertebrates was recorded at the sites with R. maritima. Our study highlights the importance of coal mine settling ponds as a substitute habitat for salt-tolerant invertebrates.