Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-911-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-911-2023
Data description paper
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23 Feb 2023
Data description paper |  | 23 Feb 2023

Mammals in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone's Red Forest: a motion-activated camera trap study

Nicholas A. Beresford, Sergii Gashchak, Michael D. Wood, and Catherine L. Barnett

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Barnett, C. L., Gashchak, S., Maksimenko, A., Chaplow, J. S., Wood, M. D., and Beresford, N. A.: Soil and vegetation radionuclide activity concentrations and calculated dose rates from the Red Forest, Chernobyl, Ukraine, 2016–2017, NERC Environmental Information Data Centre [data set], https://doi.org/10.5285/60782622-7bfa-4615-a9e3-0a802a9f4674, 2021a. 
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Barnett, C. L., Gashchak, S., Wells, C., Guliaichenko, E., Wood, M. D., and Beresford, N. A.: Motion-activated camera trap images of wildlife from the Red Forest, Chornobyl, Ukraine, 2016–2017, NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre [data set], https://doi.org/10.5285/bf82cec2-5f8a-407c-bf74-f8689ca35e83, 2022a. 
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Camera traps were established in a highly contaminated area of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) to capture images of mammals. Over 1 year, 14 mammal species were recorded. The number of species observed did not vary with estimated radiation exposure. The data will be of value from the perspectives of effects of radiation on wildlife and also rewilding in this large, abandoned area. They may also have value in future studies investigating impacts of recent Russian military action in the CEZ.
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