| Autor: |
Zymaroieva, Anastasia, Kolomiychuk, Vitaliy, Fedoniuk, Tetiana, Goncharenko, Igor, Borsuk, Oleksandr, Melnychuk, Taras, Svenning, Jens-Christian |
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International Journal of Environmental Studies; Feb2024, Vol. 81 Issue 1, p489-509, 21p |
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Fires significantly affect the structure and diversity of vegetation. Natural recovery of vegetation after fires in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone is of special interest because of its status as a nuclear disaster area. This is the first assessment of the potential for natural regrowth of forest and post-fire succession after the catastrophic fires of 2020 that scorched 62 000 ha of forest across the territory. Most of these areas (>80%) have high potential for natural regeneration but, in the first instance, forest species are commonly replaced by wasteland weeds, some of them invasive; 10 alien plant species were identified in the studied plots. Megafires facilitate vegetation shifts and opportunities for invasive species, especially in the early stages of succession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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