Environmental limitations on agricultural development of the forest zone of the East European Plain (Russian Federation)

2011 ◽  
Vol 352 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-26
Author(s):  
Olga N. Trapeznikova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
East European Plain ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
East European

scholarly journals Estimation of the rare status of Iris aphylla L. according to the categories and criteria of the IUCN Red list in the western and eastern edge of the East European plain

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 00075
Author(s):  
Stepan Senator ◽  
Sergey Savchuk ◽  
Vladimir Lebed’ko
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Red List ◽  
East European Plain ◽  
East European ◽  
Samara Oblast ◽  
Environmental Status ◽  
Eastern Edge

The article contains information on assessing the environmental status of Iris aphylla populations according to the categories and criteria of the IUCN Red List. It was found that in Gomel Oblast (Republic of Belarus) and Samara Oblast (Russian Federation), I. aphylla is characterized as “Vulnerable” (VU). The resulting categories reflect the specifics of regional conditions affecting populations.

scholarly journals Contemporary Trends in River Flow, Suspended Sediment Load, and Soil/Gully Erosion in the South of the Boreal Forest Zone of European Russia: The Vyatka River Basin

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 2567
Author(s):  
Artyom V. Gusarov ◽  
Aidar G. Sharifullin ◽  
Achim A. Beylich
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Suspended Sediment ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Sediment Load ◽  
Water Discharge ◽  
East European Plain ◽  
Suspended Sediment Load ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
East European ◽  
Erosion Intensity

Recent decades in the north of the East European Plain have been characterized by significant changes in climate and land use/cover, especially after the collapse of the USSR in 1991. At the same time, the hydrological consequences of these changes, especially changes in erosion processes and river sediment load, have been studied insufficiently. This paper partially covers this existing knowledge gap using the example of the Vyatka River basin. Draining an area of 129,000 km2, the Vyatka River is among the largest rivers in the boreal forest zone of European Russia. Cultivated land occupies about one-fifth of the river basin area; about three-fourths is covered by taiga forest vegetation. The results of state long-term hydrometeorological monitoring and information on land use/cover made it possible to reveal contemporary (since the 1960s) hydrological and erosion-intensity trends and their drivers within the greater (96%) part of the river basin. There has been a statistically insignificant increase in water discharge in the Vyatka River basin during recent decades. This is due to a statistically insignificant increase (for the entire basin studied) in the spring snowmelt-induced floodwater flow and a statistically significant rise in the discharge in the year’s warm and cold seasons. The main reason for the detected trends is increased precipitation, including heavy rainfall during the warm season. In contrast to this, the total annual suspended sediment load of the river (especially that which was snowmelt-induced) and, consequently, soil/gully erosion intensity have experienced a significant decrease in recent decades (up to 58% between 1960–1980 and 2010–2018). Land-use/-cover changes (a reduction of cultivated land area and agricultural machinery, a decline of livestock in pastures) following the collapse of the Soviet Union are considered the main reasons for this decrease. The most noticeable changes in water discharge, suspended sediment load, and erosion intensity were observed in the most agriculturally developed southwest and south parts of the Vyatka River basin. All the above trends may be considered with a high probability to be representative for the south sector of the taiga zone of the East European Plain.

Diagnostics of the Beginning of Agricultural Development of the Northwest of the East European Plain by Spore–Pollen Spectra

2021 ◽  
Vol 499 (2) ◽  
pp. 686-692
Author(s):  
A. A. Tishkov ◽  
N. G. Tsarevskaya ◽  
E. Yu. Novenko ◽  
E. A. Belonovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Development ◽  
East European Plain ◽  
East European

scholarly journals The Kargopol type ceramics – the first pottery of the northern part of the East European Plain|

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 174-182
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Kashina ◽  
Nataliya Yu. Petrova
Keyword(s):  
Boreal Forest ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Wide Distribution ◽  
Ceramic Production ◽  
East European Plain ◽  
Birch Bark ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
East European

The small group of early ceramics was found between the 1930s and 1990s, but was previously underestimated as a source that points directly to the origins of ceramic production in the boreal forest zone c. 5500–5000 BC. The Kargopol type ceramics demonstrate very archaic technological traits: a straight rim with round holes below the rim and clay paste with sand temper. This type of ceramics had a wide distribution and was made uniformly, at least concerning vessel capacities and basic decoration patterns, probably reflecting the birch bark vessel features. We recognize this phenomenon as key to understand how the process of ceramic production emerged in the zone of Russian boreal forest.

scholarly journals The Kargopol type ceramics – the first pottery of the northern part of the East European Plain|

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 174-182
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Kashina ◽  
Nataliya Yu. Petrova
Keyword(s):  
Boreal Forest ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Wide Distribution ◽  
Ceramic Production ◽  
East European Plain ◽  
Birch Bark ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
East European

The small group of early ceramics was found between the 1930s and 1990s, but was previously underestimated as a source that points directly to the origins of ceramic production in the boreal forest zone c. 5500–5000 BC. The Kargopol type ceramics demonstrate very archaic technological traits: a straight rim with round holes below the rim and clay paste with sand temper. This type of ceramics had a wide distribution and was made uniformly, at least concerning vessel capacities and basic decoration patterns, probably reflecting the birch bark vessel features. We recognize this phenomenon as key to understand how the process of ceramic production emerged in the zone of Russian boreal forest.

Geographical features of forest vegetation reflected at the level of the lower-rank syntaxa (evidence from the Russian part of the Upper Dnieper basin)

2017 ◽  
pp. 94-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu. A. Semenishchenkov
Keyword(s):  
Forest Vegetation ◽  
East European Plain ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Suggested Approach ◽  
Central European ◽  
Classification Schemes ◽  
East European ◽  
Lower Rank ◽  
Geographical Variations ◽  
European Part Of Russia

Phytogeographical features of forest vegetation at the level of lower-rank syntaxa were being discussed in literature since the early 20th century (Cajander, 1903; Sukachev, 1926; Braun-Blanquet, 1964; Kral et al., 1975; Kleopov, 1990; Bulokhov, 2003; Ellenberg, 2009), however, phytocoenologists still have no uniform interpretation and geographical maintenance of lower classification units. Forest vegetation of the European part of Russia is well studied according to Braun-Blanquet approach with association as a system of geographical subassociations. The paper offers the approaches to the reflection of geographical variations of the natural forest vegetation in the basin of the Upper Dnieper (central part of the East European Plain) at the level of lower-rank syntaxa The xeromesophytic oak woods in the basin of the Upper Dnieper belong to the East European ass. Lathyro nigri–Quercetum roboris Bulokhov et Solomeshch 2003. Floristic differentiation of this association from the similar Central European ass. Potentillo-Quercetum is given. These two associations have large blocks of geographically significant differential species that does not allow to consider them as a part of one association. The suggested approach allows to define the chorological content of units of lower syntaxonomical ranks and make regional classification schemes comparable to each other.

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