The Dnepr-Pripyat lowland in this former SSR was once forest & is now largely pasture
These transitions are largely due to the spatial pattern of dry season 
water inputs ... Deforestation and conversion of land to pasture or cropland 
generally... [DOC] [TLE] Present and future environmental impact of the ... - IAEA Publications [PAR] Conference, "One Decade after Chernobyl: Summing up the Consequences of 
the ...... origin, in forest litter/soil and trees, and in mushrooms consumed by the 
local ..... rule, bottom deposits and bank deposition in the Sozh, Dnieper and 
Pripyat ...... the former USSR and now carried over to Belarus, Russia and 
Ukraine.