Post-fire successions in protected mountain forests of Crimea
Journal: IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science
Year: 2020

Abstract Forest fires are one of the most powerful factors, not only in Russia, but all over the world. It affects the structure of ecosystems and causes the landscape transformations in it. In Crimea, the ‘Krymskiy’ National Park, where research was conducted, is a major keeper of population natural forests. Post-pyrogenic changes in vegetation cover were studied in pine phytocenoses ( Pinus sylvestris L., Pinus pallasiana D. Don.) and juniper phytocenoses ( Juniperus communis subsp. hemisphaer