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Patch-Scale Relationships Between Geodiversity and Biodiversity in Hard Rock Quarries: Case Study from a Disused Quartzite Quarry in NW France Patch-Scale Relationships Between Geodiversity and Biodiversity in Hard Rock Quarries: Case Study from a Disused Quartzite Quarry in NW France François Bétard Geoheritage ISSN 1867-2477 Volume 5 Number 2 Geoheritage (2013) 5:59-71 DOI 10.1007/s12371-013-0078-4 1 23 Your article is protected by copyright and all rights are held exclusively by The European Association for Conservation of the Geological Heritage. This e-offprint is for personal use only and shall not be self-archived in electronic repositories. If you wish to self-archive your article, please use the accepted manuscript version for posting on your own website. 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The link must be accompanied by the following text: "The final publication is available at link.springer.com”. 1 23 Author's personal copy Geoheritage (2013) 5:59–71 DOI 10.1007/s12371-013-0078-4 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Patch-Scale Relationships Between Geodiversity and Biodiversity in Hard Rock Quarries: Case Study from a Disused Quartzite Quarry in NW France François Bétard Received: 13 July 2012 /Accepted: 28 February 2013 /Published online: 14 March 2013 # The European Association for Conservation of the Geological Heritage 2013 Abstract While quarrying can cause significant negative Introduction impacts on geo- and biodiversity during the extractive op- erations, abandoned quarries can enhance biodiversity after- The extraction of building materials in open-pit quarries wards by acting as refuges for many plant and animal represents one of the major anthropogenic impacts on the communities, including a range of rare and/or endangered Earth surface. The impacts of quarrying activities affect all species of high conservation value. Combination of exposed aspects of the environment, including lithosphere (rock ex- rock walls and bare surfaces, nutrient-poor soils, water cavation and geomorphic changes of the landscape), atmo- bodies and associated wetlands are some of the abiotic sphere (dust and air pollution), hydrosphere (changes in factors that contribute to the wildlife potential of abandoned ground- and surface water) and biosphere (destruction of hard rock quarries. Focusing on the spatial relationships habitats and loss of biodiversity). As a general rule, impacts between geodiversity and biodiversity patterns, an eco- of quarrying are classically regarded as threats and poten- geomorphological survey carried out at a disused quartzite tially damaging to the environment and, in particular, to quarry, NW France, revealed a strong connection between biodiversity (e.g. Thornton 1996;Langer2001;Lameed quarrying landforms and biological assemblages at the patch 2011): quarrying activities generally inflict heavy impact scale. At this scale, geomorphological heterogeneity (or at both landscape and community levels, sometimes affect- geomorphodiversity) induced by quarrying provides a di- ing habitats and species included in the European Habitat versity of ecological niches adapted to a wide range of plant Directive (Martínez-Hernández et al 2011; Ballesteros et al and animal communities, including some rare taxa of high 2012). Paradoxically, during the last decades, ecological and heritage value (rare, Red Data Book-listed and/or protected botanical studies of quarries in various geological and envi- species, especially in vascular plant flora and invertebrate ronmental settings have revealed the ecological potential communities). Such dependence between geo- and biodiver- and biological interest of post-quarrying sites after natural sity directly reflects the rapid adjustment of ecosystems— re-vegetation (e.g. Jefferson 1984; Frochot and Godreau through primary ecological succession—to the new habitat 1995; Benes et al. 2003; UNICEM 2008). All these studies conditions offered by individual quarrying landforms. This point to the positive effects of quarrying on biodiversity, perspective deserves further attention in habitat conserva- because abandoned quarries act as refuges for many plant tion and landform replication strategies in other localities of and animal communities, including a range of rare and/or hard rock disused quarries. endangered species of high heritage value. The aim of this study is to analyse the relationships between Keywords Quarrying . Anthropogenic landforms . Biological geodiversity (i.e. diversity of exposed substrates, landforms communities . Ecological succession . Armorican Massif and soils) and biodiversity (i.e. mosaic of plant and animal communities) at the patch scale of a quarry site. At this scale, geomorphological heterogeneity could be viewed as providing a diversity of potential niches for plants and animals (Burnett et * F. Bétard ( ) al. 1998) that might explain biodiversity patterns and the Univ Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Laboratoire PRODIG, UMR 8586 CNRS, F-75205 Paris, France bioheritage value of quarries. Following this perspective, an e-mail: [email protected] eco-geomorphological approach, integrating anthropogenic Author's personal copy 60 Geoheritage (2013) 5:59–71 geomorphology and ecosystem ecology, was carried out at the positive and negative effects of quarrying on biodiversity, this Cheffois quarry site (Vendée, NW France; Fig. 1) serving as a study finally proposes a discussion on the specific adaptation ‘natural laboratory’. Determination of the patch-scale relation- process of ecosystems to quarrying landforms and on the ships between geodiversity and biodiversity is a major issue potential applications to restoration and landform replication with potential applications in quarry restoration and reclama- within other disused quarries. tion strategies. The main objectives of this study are: (1) to identify the different types of quarrying landforms and the patterns of geo(morpho)diversity at the site and (2) to charac- Materials and Methods terize the biocenoses (i.e. plant and animal associations) oc- curring within them. A biocenotic analysis of Orthoptera Study Site communities serves as a special case study to illustrate the patch-scale relationships between biotic and abiotic compo- The study site is a disused quartzite quarry within the nents of the quarry. Including a comparative analysis of commune of Cheffois (Vendée, NW France) in the southern Fig. 1 a Location map of the study site in the southern Armorican Massif (Vendée, NW France); b simplified topographic map showing the situation of the studied quarry site along the Arenig quartzite band. The rectangle in b locates Fig. 2 Author's personal copy Geoheritage (2013) 5:59–71 61 Armorican Massif (coordinates, 46°39′50 N, 0°46′50 W; plant and animal communities are based partly on the author's Fig. 1). The site occurs at the top of a quartzite butte own observations and partly on previous inventories of vege- culminating at 194 m above sea level, with a temperate tation patterns (Dupont 1992) and the regional natural heritage oceanic climate. Rainfall is typically 800–850 mm/year, (ZNIEFF inventory: MNHN 2003–2012). The compiled and and mean annual temperature is ca. 13 °C. The quarry was added materials depicting the current state of biological developed in a ca. 100-m thick, Ordovician quartzite unit of assemblages in the quarry site provide the basis for Arenig age on the southern flank of a NW–SE-trending analysing the patch-scale relations between geodiversity Variscan anticline. The extraction site is 600 m long with a and biodiversity patterns. Special attention was drawn maximum width of 100 m, covering a total surface area of on the heritage value of habitats and biological species ca. 8 ha. Outside the limits of the quarry pit, the surrounding (e.g. habitat types of community interest in the European ecosystems and land covers are represented by a grove Natura 2000 network, species listed in Red Data Books and landscape matrix (bocage) where cultivated lands are delin- Protection Lists) in order to better appreciate the ecological eated by discontinuous hedges or tree lines, with small value and the bioheritage of the site. patches of woodlands and copses. In this agriculture- To complete the analysis of patch-scale relationships be- dominated landscape, the soil cover is composed of leached tween landform heterogeneity and biodiversity patterns, a brown soils developed on grey and black schists contrasting biocenotic analysis of orthopteran communities (Caelifera: with the lithic soils and rock outcrops of the quartzite butte. grasshoppers; Ensifera: crickets and bush crickets and the During the nineteenth century, i.e. prior to quarrying, the allied Orders: Mantoptera, Phasmoptera) serves as a special butte of Cheffois was covered by a mosaic of dry heathlands case study. Orthopteran communities were chosen because (‘Atlantic moors’) and siliceous grasslands developed on nat- this faunal group presents several advantages and interests, ural dalesides of quartzite associated with lithic soils. This as advocated by some authors (Andersen et al. 2001; Picaud vegetation cover and associated components make up the and Petit 2007): (1) abundance and diversity, particularly in reference ecosystem. The earliest quarrying activities began open landscapes such as quarries; (2) presence of functional in the late nineteenth century, primarily to meet the
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