Published in Contemporary Problems of Ecology
Abstract—The study concerns mapping of the actual vegetation cover of the Vengeri River basin (eastern coast of the central Sakhalin) with an area of more than 33 000 ha. A cartographic model has been created with the use of the algorithm of stepwise discriminant analysis based on the original geobotanical data, a digital elevation model, and the s...
Published in Vestnik Zoologii
The effect of the pyrogenic factor on the avifauna of shelter belts in the north-western part of the Azov Sea region, Ukraine is considered basing on results of the research carried out in 2001–2018. The breeding bird community of shelter belts is composed of 50 species, of them different types of shelter belts support 14–46 species. Changes in the...
Published in Contemporary Problems of Ecology
Successions of a rodent population have been investigated in the forest biocenoses of the Visim Nature Biosphere Reserve (Sverdlovsk oblast, Middle Ural) after a catastrophic windfall and two fires. Differences in the values of the total abundance of rodents and their ratio in the community before natural catastrophes and at different postcatastrop...
Published in Russian Journal of Ecology
Significant variations of C/CO2 emission in time at different stages of the pyrogenic succession represented by different ecosystem types have been shown with the succession cycle of a woodland in the Kas Plain (Western Siberia) as an example. The annual emissions are at a maximum at the first succession stages and gradually decrease by 25% to the ...
Published in Russian Journal of Ecology
Southern taiga forests of Western Siberia are used as an example to demonstrate the mechanism of “flickering“ in the mosaic pattern of plant cover, which reflects natural, regular cycles of progressive succession starting at different times in each contour of the geobotanical map. The primary plant formation with time depletes the resources of its ...
Published in Russian Journal of Ecology
A significant positive correlation between the density of lightning fires and the horizontal gradient of anomalous geomagnetic field is demonstrated on the basis of studies on lichen pine forests in the Konda River basin (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area, Western Siberia) and analysis of published data. Schematic hypotheses of global connections in the...
Published in Russian Journal of Ecology
Published in Russian Journal of Ecology
Characteristics of the small-mammal populations inhabiting forest biocenoses in the Middle Ural state reserves have been analyzed over in the period from 1987 to 2002. During this period, the habitats of these animals were considerably destabilized due to windfalls and fires. The environmental characteristics of animal microhabitats at different st...
