The main factors and prospects for the restoration of biodiversity in technogenic territories (on the example of the Poltava Mining and Processing Plant)

Abstract

To conduct an analysis of the success of restoring biodiversity, an inventory of species of flora of higher plants and avifauna of man-made territories of the Poltava Mining and Processing Plant (PGZK) using unified methods. The studies were carried out in the spring-summer period of 2021-2022. The dominant species identified in mining dumps, tailings, bypass and drainage canals, urban wastewater treatment and bioengineering facilities and on the PMP territory have been studied in detail.In demutational successions, general patterns were revealed: biogeocenoses surrounding the technogenic territories of PMP are the main source of producer diasporas and a variety of consumers, which are so necessary for the restoration of degraded landscapes. Phanerophytes from the genera Populus, Pinus, Fraxinus, Ulmus, Morus, Juglans, etc. are determinants in the sylvacenoses formed on the dumps and territories of the plant. Therefore, dendrophiles characteristic of neighboring pine and floodplain forests, as well as garden phytocenoses in the territory of private development, dominate in the ornithocomplexes. The success of the natural formation of plant communities, the rich ornithological complex with the participation of rare species, and the location of the PMP territory within the migration routes indicate the expediency of further research into the possibilities of their inclusion in the natural reserve fund with the status of «territory of renaturalization».