Summer fire in steppe habitats: long-term effects on vegetation and autumnal assemblages of cursorial arthropods
Being an essential driving factor in dry grassland ecosystems, uncontrolled fires can cause damage to isolated natural areas. We investigated a case of a small-scale mid-summer fire in an abandoned steppe pasture in northeastern Ukraine and focused on the post-fire recovery of arthropod assemblages...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Sciendo
2019-12-01
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Series: | Hacquetia |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/hacq-2019-0006 |