Effect of forest fires on the avifauna of the Northern Amur Region |
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Authors: | V A Kolbin |
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Institution: | (1) Visherskii State Nature Reserve, ul. Gagarina 36B, Krasnovishersk, Perm krai, 618590, Russia |
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Abstract: | To reveal the effect of forest fires on the avifauna of the Northern Amur Region, bird assemblages of primary dark conifer-deciduous forests, wild rosemary larch forests, and secondary larch-birch forests have been studied in the Komsomol’skii and Norskii nature reserves. It has been shown that the replacement of primary dark conifer-deciduous forests by secondary forests is accompanied by a significant decrease in bird population density, with some species being lost and the composition of the dominant species group being changed. On the other hand, fires lead to increasing patchiness of the environment, which can sometimes provide for an increase in biological diversity. |
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Keywords: | bird fauna pyrogenic and fire-dependent communities habitat patchiness species diversity |
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