[Changes in ecological features of soils after controlled fires in forests defoliated by the Siberian moth in the southern taiga subzone of the Eniseĭ Region, Siberia].
Data on the postfire dynamics of soil properties in the foci of Siberian moth population outbreaks are considered. It has been shown that controlled fires set in pest-defoliated forests result in the loss of approximately 75% of carbon and 50% of nitrogen from the forest litter through their emission into the atmosphere and in the enrichment of the upper soil horizons with potassium and phosphorus (this concerns both total and movable forms). Microbiological processes in the organogenic horizon undergo significant transformation, the density of microarthropods decreases, and the abundance of mites becomes hundreds of times lower.
Krasnoshchekov
Iu N
IuN
Valendik
E N
EN
Bezkorovaĭnaia
I N
IN
Sorokin
N D
ND
Kuz'michenko
V V
VV
Verkhovets
S V
SV
Kisiliakhov
E K
EK
D000818:Animals; D017753:Ecosystem; D005390:Fires; D007300:Insect Control / Q000379:methods*; D009036:Moths; D012800:Siberia; D012987:Soil / Q000032:analysis*; D012988:Soil Microbiology; D013987:Ticks; D014197:Trees
D012987:Soil