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The key aspects of reindeer ecology within the Konda river basin are considered. The study revealed the factors governing the characteristics of calving reindeer pastures determined by the structure of forest-bog landscapes of a different generalization level. A deficit of such pastures is regarded as the factor of differentiation of reindeer groups with respect to migrants and residents. It is shown that the individual geocomplexes have a multifunctional role. Of particular significance among them are the aufeis glades with outcrops of salt-saturated groundwater, and the dark-coniferous forests along river valleys rich in epiphytic lichens (beard lichens).
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Original Russian Text © G.V. Ponomarev, 2014, published in Geography and Natural Resources, 2014, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 60–67.
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Ponomarev, G.V. The ecologo-geographical framework for the protection and recovery of taiga reindeer populations within the Konda river basin (Western Siberia). Geogr. Nat. Resour. 35, 48–54 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1875372814010077
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