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Forecast and paleogeographic scenarios of the zonal hydroclimatic and biotic conditions in the Volga basin

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A regional paleo-forecast conception is presented as applied to the Volga basin with the regional forecast landscape-geophysical scenarios of the nearest future and their paleogeographic analogs considered as unified system of global environmental changes. A progressively strengthening thermo-arid climatic trend with a general northward shift of zonal boundaries and the respective changes in the area water regime and the plant cover structure is predicted. The obtained pattern is similar to the paleo-reconstruction patterns of the Holocene and Mikulian Interglacial optimums.

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Original Russian Text © E.G. Kolomyts, 2006, published in Vodnye Resursy, 2006, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 206–223.

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Kolomyts, E.G. Forecast and paleogeographic scenarios of the zonal hydroclimatic and biotic conditions in the Volga basin. Water Resour 33, 187–204 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0097807806020084

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