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Titre :	Abandoned field succession in Russia and its potential effect on Corncrake Crex crex habitats (2016)
Auteurs :	Mikhail Grishchenko, Auteur ; Herbert H. T. Prins, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Vogelwelt (Die) (136(2-3, Sp. Iss.) 2016)
Article en page(s) :	175-184
Résumé :	At the end of the 1980s, the former USSR went through major economic and political changes. Sweeping reorganisation of the Russian agriculture resulted in widespread land abandonment and development of secondary forest. Here we report on this old field succession in northern European Russia where the majority of Corncrakes breed. After selecting sites through remote sensing, we ground-truthed 96 sites by collecting data on vegetation cover and composition. Combined with our knowledge of the local economy, we identified five stages of old field development from early abandonment to young forest. We recorded 22 calling Corncrakes in these abandoned fields, where total area under cultivation dropped below

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