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A comprehensive investigation of the current state of soil-vegetation cover has been conducted. A pattern of reconstruction of the temporal dynamics for 4 small islands in the Gulf of Peter the Great has been obtained. Sequential changes in vegetation from polydominant broad-leaved to coniferous-broad-leaved forests on Engel’m, Lavrov and Shkot Islands observed are probably bound up with climate factors in the beginning of the Late Holocene. The transition from coniferous-broad-leaved to sparse broad-leaved forest has been probably caused by recent anthropogenic influences. The coniferous-broad-leaved forests growing on podsol soils (Naumov Island) are presently dominant, what is one of characteristics of an anthropogenically transformed ecosystem.
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Original Russian Text © I.M. Rodnikova, M.S. Lyashchevskaya, A.G. Kiseleva, N.F. Pshenichnikov, 2012, published in Geography and Natural Resources, 2012, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 96–103.
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Rodnikova, I.M., Lyashchevskaya, M.S., Kiseleva, A.G. et al. The state and dynamics of the soil-vegetation cover on small islands of the gulf of peter the great (the Sea of Japan). Geogr. Nat. Resour. 33, 61–66 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1875372812010106
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