Assessment of biological soil quality in wooded reclaimed mine sites

At the species level, 8 colonising groups of Collembola could be distinguished according to the centre of their temporal occurrence. Besides fugitive initial species at the start and stenoecious woodland species at the temporary finish, 6 groups were found to be typical for certain periods of the mine site development. In contrast to the Collembola with 99 species found at the mine sites, only 14 species of predatory centipedes were observed, but as within the Collembola, the centipedes showed a species-specific colonisation behaviour, also marking certain periods of ecosystem succession on the mine sites.