Former military areas - due to their relatively undisturbed status - often provide unique opportunities for biodiversity conservation. That is why we started our monitoring study in 2018 in a former military area in Hortobágy National Park. This is a very unique and interesting place, where in a large-scale restoration project, the National Park cleared the unexploded ordnances and levelled the soil surface of the former bomb craters on approximately 4000 hectares. This provided a very nice opportunity for us to study the spontaneous vegetation development on vast bare soil surfaces.
This year we had the fifth year of monitoring. It was very nice to see that the recovery process is nicely progressing, the weeds are declining and the cover of target species is increasing year by year.
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Spontaneously recovering vegetation three years after the soil levelling.
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Field survey in 2020.
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Field survey in 2022.
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