Effect of spring grass fires on vegetation patterns and soil quality in abandoned agricultural lands at local and landscape scales in Central European Russia

• Published in: Ecological processes Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 1 - 38
• Main Authors: Khanina, Larisa G., Smirnov, Vadim E., Romanov, Michael S., Bobrovsky, Maxim V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.12.2018; Springer Nature B.V; SpringerOpen
• Subjects: Abandoned land; Agricultural land; Agricultural management; Arable land; arable soils; Archives & records; Area; Biodiversity; Biotopes; Burning; Calamagrostis epigejos; Climatic data; climatic factors; Coverage; Earth and Environmental Science; Ecosystem management; edaphic factors; Environment; Fires; Flammability; Flammable materials; Flowers & plants; Forests; Grasses; Landsat; Landsat satellites; Landscape; landscapes; Landscapes and Services; Methods; Phosphorus pentoxide; pioneer species; Plant communities; Plant diversity; Plant species; Plants; Regression analysis; Remote sensing; Russia; Soil; Soil quality; Soils; Species composition; Species diversity; Spring; Sustainable ecosystems; temperature; The Green-Blue Nexus: Forests; Trees; Variance analysis; Vegetation; Vegetation patterns; Russia

Introduction Abandonment of agricultural land is often happening all over the world and widespread in Russia. Such lands are subject to successional changes in vegetation and it seems necessary to provide effective methods for a sustainable ecosystem management of those lands. However, factors which...