Understanding species environmental optimal for improving site reclamation.

Mine sites can have significant effects on local environments like physical disruption of land forms and ecosystems. Mine site rehabilitation should return sites to conditions where land forms; soils, hydrology, and biodiversity are self-sustaining and compatible with surrounding land uses. Restoring mining site must undergo numerous steps such as: soil and water management, landscape maintenance and design, rebuilding ecosystems, diversity management and conservation. The key physical restraints of mine rehabilitation are considered to be: climate, size, soil/rock types and the physical and chemical properties of the land. This project aim to show what can be achieved and how some landscapes can actually be improved as a result of mining activity, by studying the ecological connections between biodiversity and habitat conditions (humidity and temperature) and understanding species environmental optimal, for improving site reclamation.