The size of burnt areas has little effect on the recovery of soil macrofauna in the boreal forests of Middle Ural, Russia

• 作者: Anton A.IURMANOV Daniil I.KOROBUSHKIN Konstantin B.GONGALSKY Nadezhda L.UKHOVA
• 来源期刊: 土壤圈（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（5）
• 页码范围: 714-718
• 页数: 5页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1016/S1002-0160(20)60032-7

摘要

Dear Editor, The forests of the world are prone to fires of varying frequencies and intensities (Whitlock, 2004).After fires,habitats previously not present in forest emerge: these are the areas of bare ground that are better insulated and thus have more contrasting soil temperatures during the day and between seasons (Winter et al., 1980;Phillips et al., 2000).Such areas are usually more poorly drained due to the lack of trees providing evapotranspiration (Smits et al., 2016).Moreover, soils in the burnt areas become a source of easily available nutrients (N, K, and P) (Certini, 2005).These factors lead to an instant increase of microbial biomass and rapid development of pyrogenic plant communities.