How Important Are the Relations between Vegetation Diversity and Bacterial Functional Diversity for the Functioning of Novel Ecosystems?

Understanding ecosystem development of post-mining areas requires observing the plant and microbial communities. It is widely known that mutual interaction important for both these groups, benefit significantly. The aim this study was to broaden knowledge about relation between vegetation functional diversity bacterial communities in novel ecosystems discuss potential applicability methods studies with special attention paid BIOLOG method. five types microhabitats post-coal mining heap (Upper Silesia, Poland) studied using Four them were covered by spontaneously developed (two dominated grasses Calamagrostis epigejos Poa compressa two others dicotyledonous species Daucus carota Tussilago farfara). results obtained vegetated compared from non-vegetated microhabitat. Our confirmed measured summed area under curve all substrates, richness index, Shannon-Wiener index evenness mirrors aboveground diversity. All measures differ, especially patches grassland C. P. compressa.