Understanding the effects of ionizing radiation (IR) on plants is important for environmental
protection, for agriculture and horticulture, and for space science but plants have significant …

Although it is an integral part of global change, most of the research addressing the effects of
climate change on forests have overlooked the role of environmental pollution. Similarly …

Forest managers and nature conservationists rely on precise mapping of single trees from
remote sensing data for efficient estimation of forest attributes. In recent years, additional …

After the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (F1NPP) in March 2011,
much attention has been paid to the biological consequences of the released radionuclides …

Genetic and epigenetic changes were investigated in chronically irradiated Scots pine
(Pinus sylvestris L.) populations from territories that were heavily contaminated by …

Abstract The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) accident in 1986 resulted in
extremely high levels of acute ionising radiation, that killed or damaged Scots pine (Pinus …

Our research, carried out in 2014–2016 at eight sites in the radioactive contaminated
territories of Fukushima Prefecture, showed that the young trees of Japanese red pine …

This paper compares the scale and consequences of radioactive contamination of forest
ecosystems following the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents. The Chernobyl deposition in …

For 34 years since the 1986 nuclear disaster, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (ChEZ)
landscapes have been protected with very limited human interventions. Natural afforestation …

In this paper, we analyze the current and future status of forests in Ukraine and Belarus that
were contaminated after the nuclear disaster in 1986. Using several models, together with …