Estimating the Afforestation Rate on Different Types of Postagrogenic Lands in the South of the Central Russian Upland

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  • Edgar A. Terekhin Belgorod State National Research University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52575/2712-7443-2025-49-3-450-461

Keywords:

abandoned agricultural lands, tree vegetation, time series, secondary succession, NDVI

Abstract

Analysis of the impact produced by afforestation of postagrogenic lands on their spectral- reflective properties is a necessary condition for the development of approaches to monitoring restorative successions based on remote sensing data. The paper analyses the long-term dynamics of the vegetation index for abandoned agricultural lands in the south of the Central Russian Upland, differing in the species composition of tree vegetation and the forms of its participation. In the early 2020s, the average forest cover of postagrogenic lands with coniferous species is several times higher than that of lands with forest vegetation of deciduous species. A regional feature of postagrogenic lands with deciduous trees is that for most of them, after more than a twenty-year period of restorative successions, the forest cover does not exceed 20 %. Differences in the growth rate of the vegetation index, described by a logarithmic curve, characterize the differences between abandoned agricultural lands with deciduous and coniferous species. At the same time, the long-term dynamics of the vegetation index also characterizes the differences between abandoned lands in terms of the presence of areas of continuous or sparse tree vegetation. After a twenty-year period of restorative successions on abandoned lands with deciduous trees, a statistically significant trend in the vegetation index is observed during the formation of areas of continuous forest vegetation and is not detected in the presence of isolated trees. On postagrogenic lands with coniferous species, a statistically significant positive trend is present both in the case of the formation of continuous and sparse tree vegetation.

Acknowledgements: This research was funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation within the framework of State Assignment No. FZWG-2023-0011.

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Author Biography

Edgar A. Terekhin, Belgorod State National Research University

Doctor of Geographical Sciences, Senior Researcher, Department of Geoinformatics, Federal Regional Center for Aerospace and Ground Monitoring of Objects and Natural Resources, Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resources and Land Cadastre, Belgorod State National Research University, Belgorod, Russia
E-mail: terekhin@bsuedu.ru

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2025-09-30

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Terekhin, E. A. (2025). Estimating the Afforestation Rate on Different Types of Postagrogenic Lands in the South of the Central Russian Upland. Regional Geosystems, 49(3), 450-461. https://doi.org/10.52575/2712-7443-2025-49-3-450-461

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