What is Restoration Ecology?

Restoration Ecology addresses the question how to repair various human-disturbed sites. It provides a scientific basis for practical ecological restoration and promotes, among others, the use of spontaneous or reasonably managed succession in the greatest possible extent without using traditional methods of technical reclamation.

Restoration Ecology Group

"Promotion of spontaneous or reasonably
controlled succession in order to restore disturbed sites"

DASS Database of Successional Seres

EDaSS European Database of Successional Seres

DASP Database
of seeded plots

DaSS - Database of Successional Seres

The Restoration Ecology Group has managed to put together a unique set of phytosociological relevés from 40 successional seres from different post-mining and other human-disturbed sites across the Czech Republic. The relevés are collected from a total of 31 authors and are located across the whole country. They contain important information about species composition, successional age and other environmental factors. So far, about 4,000 relevés with more than 1,000 recorded species are available. The database is continuously updated and scietific papers based on these data are gradually published.

The rules for database handling can be found here.

Sere*	Location in the Czech Republic	Number of samples	Number of sampling plots	Age of stages [years]	Data sources and References

Abandoned fields (S)	Various parts	324	255	1–99	Osbornová et al. (1990); Prach et al. (2007); Jírová et al. (2012)
Acidic stone quarries (P)	Central	145	145	1–86	Trnková et al. (2010)
Artificial fishpond islands and barriers (P/S)	S	171	86	1–136	K. Prach, unpublished; V. Študent, unpublished; P. Janečková, unpublished; Rejmánek & Rejmánková (2002)
Bared bottom (P)	NW and E	14	3	1–70	K. Prach, unpublished; J. Chlumsky, unpublished
Basalt quarries (P)	NW	440	440	1–80	J. Novák, unpublished; Novák & Prach (2003); Novák & Konvička (2006)
Burnt down forests (S)	NW	52	52	1-168	Adámek et al. (2015)
Corridors of former iron curtain (S)	SW	156	156	4–54	Z. Špringar, unpublished; P. Koštel, unpublished; K. Vítovcová, unpublished
Died forests after air pollution (S)	NW	14	1	1–20	Pyšek (1994)
Extracted peatlands (P)	SW	374	271	1–100	Konvalinková & Prach (2010, 2014); Bastl et al. (2009)
Forest clearings (S)	Central and N	99	99	1-107	P. Šmilauer, unpublished; P. Petřík, unpublished
Limestone quarries (P)	Central and E	184	159	1–93	L. Tichý, unpublished; J. Sádlo, unpublished; A. Bartošová, unpublished
Riverbars (P)	NE and S	70	42	1–150	K. Prach, unpublished; Z. Vaněček, unpublished
Road verges (P/S)	S	114	94	1–42	Litvín (2000); K. Prach, unpublished; P. Janečková, unpublished
Sand and gravel-sand pits (P)	Various parts	235	235	1–75	Řehounková & Prach (2006, 2008, 2010)
Sedimentary basins (P)	W and N	21	21	2–41	K. Prach, unpublished; Kovář (2004)
Spoil heaps from black coal mining I (P)	Central	91	91	1–100	H. Dvořáková, unpublished; Prach et al. (2013)
Spoil heaps from black coal mining II (P)	NE	182	182	1–75	T. Koutecký, unpublished; K. Prach, unpublished
Spoil heaps from brown coal mining I (P)	NW	111	111	2–57	Prach (1987); Hodačová & Prach (2003)
Spoil heaps from brown coal mining II (P)	W	599	83	1–57	K. Prach, unpublished; O. Mudrák, unpublished; Frouz et al. (2008)
Spoil heaps from uranium mining (P)	Central	87	87	7–32	T. Dudíková, unpublished
Urban ruderals (S)	W	36	3	1–12	A. Pyšek, unpublished
Wet sand pits (S)	Various parts	154	154	1–63	Müllerová et al. (2020)
Wet spoil heaps (S)	Various parts	20	20	6–52	A. Müllerová, unpublished
Wet stone quarries (S)	Various parts	37	37	11–65	A. Müllerová, unpublished