Post-fire recovery of vegetation in the Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve

Zymaroieva, Anastasia; Kolomiychuk, Vitaliy; Fedoniuk, Tetiana; Goncharenko, Igor; Borsuk, Oleksandr; Melnychuk, Taras; Svenning, Jens-Christian

doi:10.1080/00207233.2023.2287345

Cited by 1 publication

(2 citation statements)

References 65 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Geospatial tools are actively used in the Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve for various purposes: fire management (Fedoniuk et al, 2021;Matsala et al, 2023;Zymaroieva et al, 2023), promotion of international cooperation to protect endangered species and their habitats (Gashchak & Paskevych, 2019;Palmero et al, 2023), better understanding of species migration routes (Schlichting et al, 2020), general biodiversity monitoring (Cannon & Kiang, 2022).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Geospatial applications as an integral component of wildlife monitoring in the Chor-nobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve

Melnychuk,

Korepanova,

Fedoniuk

et al. 2024

Biosys. divers.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The large area of the Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve and the inaccessibility of some areas to the reserve's staff due to radioactive contamination make geospatial data collection methods a good alternative to traditional field sampling. The aim of the study is to assess the effectiveness and limits of applying contemporary tools of data collection and biodiversity monitoring in the Chornobyl Reserve. We used hierarchical cluster analysis to compare how well different ways of collecting data worked by finding the distances between groups of species in the following samples: the Fauna questionnaire, the iNaturalist platform, monitoring of large mammals as part of the Polissia without Borders project, and low-resource mammal surveys using camera traps. Incorporating GIS data collection techniques into field studies or inventories in a reserve is undeniably a powerful additional source of biodiversity information. The iNaturalist platform provides reliable data on species richness as well as seasonal and topographic distribution, despite its limitations in terms of the relative abundance and structure of species communities. The data obtained with the help of the Fauna questionnaire adequately describes the situation with the relative abundance and spatial distribution of large and medium-sized mammals, approaching such an accurate method as photographic monitoring using photo traps. Increasing the quantity and quality of results is possible by expanding the competence of staff in using the questionnaire and training aimed at identifying species by indirect signs such as traces, burrows, gnawing marks, etc. Geostatistical tools are valuable for the efficient use of technology and resources for inventory identification and generation, uniformity in biodiversity data collection, and effective data dissemination.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Meadows occupy 10% of the vegetation cover, and marshes -5%. An atypical biotope for Polissia is fallow land, which was formed on the site of former agricultural lands (30%), which is a kind of analog of steppe ecosystems (Gemitzi, 2020;Zymaroieva et al, 2023).…”

Section: Fig 1 Boundaries Of the Chornobyl Radiation And Ecological B...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Geospatial applications as an integral component of wildlife monitoring in the Chor-nobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve

Melnychuk,

Korepanova,

Fedoniuk

et al. 2024

Biosys. divers.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Post-fire recovery of vegetation in the Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve

Cited by 1 publication

References 65 publications

Geospatial applications as an integral component of wildlife monitoring in the Chor-nobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve

Geospatial applications as an integral component of wildlife monitoring in the Chor-nobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About