Section

Physical geography and biogeography, soil geography and landscape geochemistry

Title

ON THE ECOLOGICAL STRATEGY OF THE TERRITORY THAT UNDERWENT THE VIRGIN LAND CAMPAIGN TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT BASED ON THE FRAMEWORK APPROACH AND THE INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT OF THE KEY TERRITORIES

Сontributors

S.V. Levykin, Ph. D. (Geography), Dr. Habil., RAS professor, Head of the Agroecology and land management laboratory of the Institute of the Steppe of the Ural Branch of RAS. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,

B.I. Kochurov, Ph. D. (Geography), Dr. Habil., Professor, Institute of Geography of RAS. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,

I. G. Yakovlev, Ph. D. (Geography), research officer of the Agroecology and land management laboratory of the Institute of the Steppe of the Ural Branch of RAS. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,

G. V. Kazachkov, Ph. D. (Biology), research officer of Agroecology and land management laboratory of the Institute of the Steppe of the Ural Branch of RAS. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Abstract

The quick secondary Lessing feather-grass steppe self-restoration has become the landscape phenomenon of the territory that underwent the Virgin Lands Campaign in the Trans-Ural eco-region while the Cis-Ural Orenburg Region becomes the main refugium for those self-restored steppes. As ecological substantiation for conservation these steppe plots, they are considered as cores for the steppe ecological framework. For the first time the systemizing of these cores has been carried out by their inner structure and margin dynamics. The cores of various sorts are found in the Cis-Ural Orenburg Region and the Trans-Ural Orenburg Region, the steppe ecological corridors are substantiated as an alternative for protective forest belts. The theoretical approaches to the ecological framework steppe element integrated assessment are developed considering the plot’s state proximity to the secondary steppe, its ecosystem services, agro-ecological and conserva- tional worth, territory parameters, transformation degree and aesthetic properties. The use without ploughing up, first of all, as a territorial basis for the hoofed steppe animals farming, is proposed as a recommendation for the elements of the steppe ecological framework.

Keywords

the territory that underwent the Virgin Lands Campaign, the Trans-Ural eco-region, the Cis-Ural Orenburg Region, the secondary steppe, ecosystem base, steppe ecological framework, steppe core, seed source, integrated assessment.

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