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1. Are the orienteers the future guardians of nature? The answer seems to be yes and comes in a study by Charlotta Bjurvald and Robert Johnsson Wetterlöf concerning the impact of an event with the magnitude of the O-Ringen SkÃ¥ne in 2014 on the ground. With a forest management increasingly…
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rationalized and the decline of the interference of agriculture in the way of life and traditions of the populations, there is an strong link between biodiversity and the landscapes disturbance. Seeking to clarify how the forest reacts to the presence of 25,000 orienteers, the study analyses three locations before and after the competitions, in the bottom and field layer. The results showed a clear decrease in the frequency of the dominant species, but trivial species in all areas and in one area the amount of bare ground also increased, allowing to conclude for less dominant species to spread and therefore…

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