CENTRE ON THE PROBLEMS OF ECOLOGY AND PRODUCTIVITY OF FORESTS
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CENTRE ON THE PROBLEMS OF ECOLOGY AND PRODUCTIVITY OF FORESTS |
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M. A. Kharitonenkov The Transformation of the Forest Cover in the West-Siberian Plain in the 17-19th Centuries Due to Its Settlement by Migrants // Forest Science (Lesovedenie). 2012. No 5. С.29-35. The modern advances of historical ecology clearly demonstrate an important role of traditional nature management in the structure and dynamics of the forest cover in different regions. The most intense influence on the forest cover in southern Western Siberia is referred to the time of peasant (Russian) colonization (17-19th centuries). A combined chronological analysis of available historical materials and data on the plant cover is presented; the main forms of anthropogenic transformation of the forest cover in the southern West-Siberian Plain in 17-19th centuries have been revealed. By the 19th century, fires and cutting of forests for agricultural purposes, pasturing and haying in forests have led to a considerable reduction of the forested areas in the forest-steppe and subtaiga, a shift of the southern forest boundary to the north, and removal of dark coniferous and broad-leaved woody species from the forest composition. In the southern taiga, regular catastrophic fires have drastically lowered a share of dark coniferous stands substituted for derivative birch forests. Traditional utilization of nature, anthropogenic transformation of plant cover, West-Siberian plate, agrarian land reclamation.. |
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