Section

Physical geography and biogeography, soil geography and landscape geochemistry

Title

LANDSCAPES OF SALT DOMES OF INDER AS LANDSCAPE AND BIOLOGICAL KEY TERRITORY

Сontributors

V. P. Petrishchev, Ph. D. (Geography), Dr. Habil., Head of the Department of Urban Cadastre Orenburg State University,

Head of the Laboratory of Geoecology and Landscape Planning Institute of the Steppe of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.;

K. M. Ahmedenov, Ph. D. (Geography), Director of SRI West Kasakhstan Agrarian-technical University named Zhangir Khan, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.;

S.        Yu. Noreika, Researcher, Institute of the Steppe of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,

E. V. Barbazyuk, Ph. D. (Geography), Researcher, Institute of the Steppe of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Abstract

The article deals with the originality and uniqueness of the natural properties of the various components forming the salt dome origin landscape, which allows us to speak of them as the key landscape and biological areas. The example of the positive impact of human activities on the preservation and maintenance of the diversity of species of birds in the territory of the karst field at Inder Lake (Atyrau, Kazakhstan) is given. In the abandoned quarries for the extraction of gypsum, such rare species as the Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni), the Pallid Harrier (Circus macrourus), the Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo), and the Pink Starlings (Sturnus roseus) and other species of birds are found. In the vicinity of the quarries, on the ridges, the Steppe Eagle (Aquila nipalensis) nests. On the slopes of sinkholes and bulk mining roads the Great Gerbil (Rhombomys opimus) actively settles, which allegedly maintains a stable food base day and night birds of prey in the area. On the field roads around the lake Inder between careers, groups of Black-sandgrouse (Pterocles orientalis) are registered. As a result of human activities, in the field of the Inder karst, the optimal combination of nesting and feeding habitats for a number of birds including rare raptors from the Red Data Book was created. The example of the positive impact of human activities on the preservation and maintenance of species diversity of rare birds in the vicinity of Lake Inder, in the territory of the karst field Inder of the Inder Administrative District of the Atyrau Region of Kazakhstan is described.

Keywords

lake Inder, Inderskoye karst field, birds, the Red Data Book of Kazakhstan and Russia, plaster pit, anthropogenous activity, creation of the national park.

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