Terrestrial Vertebrates of Post-Quarrying Sites in the Donbas Region of Ukraine

Ulyura, E.; Tytar, Volodymyr

doi:10.1515/vzoo-2017-0062

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“…e closure and/or reduced operations of industrial plants and agricultural processing facilities in the eastern part of Ukraine [Burakovsky & Betliy 2009] seem to have facilitated this trend. Later it was shown that abandoned in the Donbas region quarrying and coal mining sites, with the encroachment of vegetation, notably enhance biodiversty [Ulyura & Tytar 2017, 2018.…”

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Long-term monitoring of the European roller (Coracias garrulus) in Ukraine: is climate behind the changes?

Shupova¹,

Tytar²

2022

GEO&BIO

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The European range of the roller was formerly more extensive, but since the 1980s there has been a long-term decline in numbers and in range, particularly towards the north, including much of north-western Ukraine. Our specific goals were to reconstruct the environmentally suitable range of the species in Ukraine before the 1980s, gain better knowledge on its requirements, compare the past and current suitable areas, infer the regional and environmental variables that best explain its occurrence, and quantify the overall range change in the country. For these purposes we created a database consisting of 584 findings made in Ukraine, based on a lengthy record of occurrences extending back to 1851: 203 for the period prior to 1980, 91 for records made between 1985 and 2009, and 290 records made between 2010 and 2020. We employed a species distribution modelling (SDM) approach to hindcast changes in the suitable range of the roller during historical times across Ukraine and to derive spatially explicit predictions of environmental suitability for the species under current climate and a set of factors that were hypothesised to be of importance to roller presence and securing a sufficient food base. SDMs were created for three time intervals (before 1980, 1985–2009, 2010–2020) using corresponding climate data. SDMs show a decline of suitable for rollers areas in the country from around 86 to 44%. Several factors, including land cover and land use, human population density etc. that could have contributed to the decline of the species in Ukraine, were considered. For example, the loss of area of ‘short vegetation’ appears detrimental, although recent gains in this respect have favoured the bird in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone and around, where Landsat images show the change from a previously vibrant agricultural and forestry economy, when crops have been replaced by grasslands. Threats posed to the roller by habitat and land use change are also likely to be compounded by the effects of global climate change. In summary, we suggest climate change, in particular velocity, have been responsible for shaping the contemporary home range of the European roller in Ukraine and perhaps beyond.

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Long-term monitoring of the European roller (Coracias garrulus) in Ukraine: is climate behind the changes?

Shupova¹,

Tytar²

2022

GEO&BIO

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“…The closure and/or reduced operations of industrial plants and agricultural processing facilities in the eastern part of Ukraine (Burakovsky, Betliy, 2009) seem to have facilitated this trend. Later it was shown that abandoned in the Donbas region quarrying and coal mining sites, with the encroachment of vegetation, significantly enhance biodiversty (Ulyura, Tytar, 2017.…”

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LONG-TERM MONITORING OF THE EUROPEAN ROLLER (CORACIAS GARRULUS) IN UKRAINE: IS CLIMATE BEHIND THE CHANGES?

Shupova¹,

Tytar

2021

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Since the 1980s there has been a long-term decline in numbers and contraction of range in Europe, including Ukraine. Our specific goals were to reconstruct the climatically suitable range of the species in Ukraine before the 1980s, gain better knowledge on its requirements, compare the past and current suitable areas, infer the regional and environmental variables that best explain its occurrence, and quantify the overall range change in the country. For these purposes we created a database consisting of 347 records of the roller made ever in Ukraine. We employed a species distribution modeling (SDM) approach to hindcast changes in the suitable range of the roller during historical times across Ukraine and to derive spatially explicit predictions of climatic suitability for the species under current climate. SDMs were created for three time intervals (before 1980, 1985-2009, 2010-2021) using corresponding climate data extracted from the TerraClim database. SDMs show a decline of suitable for rollers areas in the country from 85 to 46%. Several factors, including land cover and use, human population density and climate, that could have contributed to the decline of the species in Ukraine were considered. We suggest climate change and its speed (velocity) have been responsible for shaping the contemporary home range of the European roller.

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“…Therefore, the analysis of the avifauna is a fairly reliable bioindication method for the restoration of transformed areas that are subject to technogenic impact (Lehikoinen, 2013;Catarino et al, 2016). Given the rather large areas of territories of technogenic origin, in Ukraine (Shapar & Mikheyev, 2018) there is an urgent need to study the features of the formation and patterns of ornithocenoses within such biotopes, as well as develop recommendations for their conservation and management development (Baczyńska et al, 2017;Gavris et al, 2017;Ulyura, 2018).…”

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The main factors and prospects for the restoration of biodiversity in technogenic territories (on the example of the Poltava Mining and Processing Plant)

Чаплыгина

Filatova²,

Litvin

et al. 2023

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Mining activities radically change natural ecosystems, the recovery of which is not possible without the restoration of native or transformed communities of autotrophic and heterotrophic organisms. In order to analyze the success of biodiversity restoration using unified methods, an inventory of higher plant flora and avifauna species in the technogenic territories of the Poltava Mining and Processing Plant was carried out. The dominant species identified in mining dumps, tailings, bypass and drainage canals, urban wastewater treatment and bioengineering facilities and on the PMP territory have been studied in detail. The studies were carried out in the spring-summer period of 2021–2022. The avifauna includes 140 species belonging to 18 orders and 45 families (Passeriformes predominate – 62.0%). 103 species nest on the PMP territory, 32 nomadic and 5 transient species are also registered. The nesting avifauna is dominated by representatives of both native nemoral (16.0%, n = 103) and forest-steppe (13.0%) and tropical (14.0%) avifauna. A significant number of birds belong to limnophiles, which prevail in the territories of the urban wastewater treatment plant (66.7%, n = 30) and tailings (62.5%, n = 24). They are also common in the bypass and drainage canals, where hydro- and hygrophilous phytocenoses have formed, similar to floodplain and real meadows as part of adjacent wetland ecosystems. Among the surrounding natural biogeocenoses, there are no steppe ones with their inherent unique floristic composition, which explains the small number of stepants in the studied flora and campophiles in the avifauna. In recovery successions, general patterns were revealed: biogeocenoses surrounding the technogenic territories of the PMP are the main source of producer diasporas and a variety of consumers, which are so necessary for the restoration of degraded landscapes. Phanerophytes from the genera Populus, Pinus, Fraxinus, Ulmus, Morus, Juglans, etc. are determinants in the sylvacenoses formed on the dumps and territories of the plant. Therefore, dendrophiles characteristic of neighbouring pine and floodplain forests, as well as garden phytocenoses in the private sector territory, dominate in the ornithocomplexes. Nationally rare avifauna includes 5 species, two of which nest. Among the identified bird species, the following nesting species are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine: Columba oenas, Himantopus himantopus, as well as transient and nomadic species: Hieraaetus pennatus, Haliaeetus allbicilla, Milvus migrans. The success of the natural formation of plant communities, the rich ornithological complex with the participation of rare species, and the location of the PMP territory within the migration routes indicate the expediency of further research into the possibilities of their inclusion in the nature reserve fund with the status of “territory of renaturalization”.

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Terrestrial Vertebrates of Post-Quarrying Sites in the Donbas Region of Ukraine

Cited by 6 publications

References 26 publications

Long-term monitoring of the European roller (Coracias garrulus) in Ukraine: is climate behind the changes?

Long-term monitoring of the European roller (Coracias garrulus) in Ukraine: is climate behind the changes?

LONG-TERM MONITORING OF THE EUROPEAN ROLLER (CORACIAS GARRULUS) IN UKRAINE: IS CLIMATE BEHIND THE CHANGES?

The main factors and prospects for the restoration of biodiversity in technogenic territories (on the example of the Poltava Mining and Processing Plant)

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