TY - JOUR AU - Burdukovskii, M. AB - ISSN 1067-4136, Russian Journal of Ecology, 2019, Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 300–303. © Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2019. Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Ekologiya, 2019, No. 3, pp. 226–229. SHORT COMMUNICATIONS Beginning of Vegetation Succession on Lava Flows from the 2012–2013 Eruption of Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka a, a a S. Yu. Grishin *, P. A. Perepelkina , and M. L. Burdukovskii Federal Scientific Center for the Biodiversity of Terrestrial Biota, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 90022 Russia *e-mail: grishin@biosoil.ru Received June 29, 2018; revised July 18, 2018; accepted July 25, 2018 Keywords: colonization, plants, mosses, diaspores, volcanogenic succession, early succession species DOI: 10.1134/S1067413619030032 A major volcanic eruption in the northern part of and with old lava f lows that are overgrown very slowly Tolbachinsky Dol, central Kamchatka (November [8]. Vascular plants in the study region are represented 2012–September 2013) produced lava f lows that cov- by 263 species [12]. In addition, 203 moss species and 344 lichen species grow in the territory of Tolbachin- ered an area of 36 km . Two years later we found the sky Dol as a whole [10]. first plants growing on their surface. The purpose of this TI - Beginning of Vegetation Succession on Lava Flows from the 2012–2013 Eruption of Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka JF - Russian Journal of Ecology DO - 10.1134/S1067413619030032 DA - 2019-06-13 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/beginning-of-vegetation-succession-on-lava-flows-from-the-2012-2013-0ZzXWNo08f SP - 300 EP - 303 VL - 50 IS - 3 DP - DeepDyve ER -