Photosynthetica 2020, 58(5):1178-1187 | DOI: 10.32615/ps.2020.072

Disturbance mechanism of coal mining subsidence to typical plants in a semiarid area using O-J-I-P chlorophyll a fluorescence analysis

Y. LIU1, S.G. LEI2, X.Y. CHEN1, M. CHEN1, X.Y. ZHANG1, L.L. LONG1
1 The State Key Laboratory of Mining Response and Disaster Prevention and Control in Deep Coal Mine, School of Earth and Environment, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan, 232001, China
2 Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education for Mine Ecological Restoration, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, China

The response of individual plants to coal mining subsidence disturbance reflects the micro-ecological mechanism implied in the macro-response, which is the basis of studying the rule of vegetation disturbance of large-scale coal mining. In this study, O-J-I-P chlorophyll a fluorescence analysis was used to diagnose the disturbance mechanism of typical individual plants by coal mining subsidence in a semiarid area. The results showed that the groundwater level and soil water content decreased due to the disturbance of coal mining subsidence and the plant growth was affected by drought stress. The rapid chlorophyll fluorescence induction curve of leaves was deformed, the stomatal limitation increased, and the photosynthetic electron transfer was inhibited. Stomatal conductance, photosynthetic rate, and transpiration rate decreased significantly. The spatial heterogeneity of soil water content after mining subsidence is the main reason for the differing degree of plant drought stress in different subsidence areas.

Additional key words: chlorophyll a fluorescence; drought stress; mine environment; photosynthetic activity; soil disturbance.

Received: July 25, 2020; Revised: September 10, 2020; Accepted: October 5, 2020; Prepublished online: October 23, 2020; Published: December 8, 2020  Show citation

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LIU, Y., LEI, S.G., CHEN, X.Y., CHEN, M., ZHANG, X.Y., & LONG, L.L. (2020). Disturbance mechanism of coal mining subsidence to typical plants in a semiarid area using O-J-I-P chlorophyll a fluorescence analysis. Photosynthetica, 58(5), 1178-1187. doi: 10.32615/ps.2020.072
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