The results of a long-term experiment to create a nature-like meadow-steppe community on overburden dumps by applying a grass-seed mixture are presented. For the experiment, soil and loam-like loams were applied to the overburden, and a landfill site without soil or loam application was used as a control. Areas without the introduction of a grass-seed mixture are at the pioneer and group-overgrown stage of syngenesis. The use of a grass-seed mixture significantly contributes to a change in the direction of syngenesis towards the formation of a nature-like community, while there is a constant decrease in the number and proportion of weed species in the projective cover both when applying soils and when applying loams.

Kupriyanov O.A., Ufimtsev V.I., Manakov Yu.A., Schastlivtsev E.L.