Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Dynamics of Modern Vegetation for Pasture Use in the Northwestern Pre-Caspian Region

  • SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF ARID TERRITORIES
  • Published:
Arid Ecosystems Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

This article presents the results of long-term studies of the process of desertification (degradation) of the dry lands of the northwestern Pre-Caspian region. Modern vegetation is considered to occur as a result of pasture overload with livestock. The authors consider this process to be “unification,” which leads to a decrease in species diversity in communities and, as a consequence, to uniformity of the vegetation cover. The complexity of the soil and vegetation cover characteristic of the Pre-Caspian region disappears, and a sequential change occurs in indigenous plant communities by a group of short-term derivatives. Quantitative assessment of the desertification process includes (classes) the stages of desertification, the criteria for pastoral digression, and the corresponding indicators, plant communities. They determine the ecological–dynamic series of plant communities, which reveal the mechanism of the degradation process. The study showed that the vegetation of the youngest New Caspian terrace within the northwestern Pre-Caspian region is characterized by high susceptibility to this process.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1.

Similar content being viewed by others

Notes

  1. Names of vascular plant species are provided according to Czerepanov (2007).

REFERENCES

  1. Bananova, V.A. and Lazareva, V.G., Trends of changes in the botanical diversity under the influence of desertification in the Republic of Kalmykia, Arid Ecosyst., 2014, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 119–126.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Bananova, V.A., Aleksandrov, V.A., Veseleva, S.N., and Bambuev, Yu.A., Karta antropogennogo opustynivaniya aridnykh territorii Kalmyktskoi ASSR, Masshtab 1 : 500 000 (Map of Anthropogenic Desertification of Arid Territories of Kalmyk ASSR, Scale 1 : 500 000), Bananova, V.A., Ed., Novocherkassk: Yuzh. Fil., Gos. Proektno-Izyzsk. Inst. Zemel’no-Kadastrobykh S”emok, 1989.

  3. Borlikov, G.M., Kharin, N.G., Bananova, V.A., Tateishi, R., Opustynivaniya zasushlivykh zemel’ Prikaspiiskogo regiona (Prilozhenie: 3 karty M. 1 : 1 000 000 i 1 : 2 500 000) (Desertification of Arid Lands in Caspian Region (Supplement: 3 Maps, Scale 1 : 1 000 000 and 1 : 2 500 000)), Rostov-on-Don: Sev.-Kavk. Nauchn. Tsentr, 2000.

  4. Czerepanov, S.K., Vascular Plants of Russia and Adjacent States (the Former USSR), Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007.

    Google Scholar 

  5. FAO-UNEP: Provisional Methodology for Assessment and Mapping of Desertification, Rome: Food Agric. Org., 1984.

  6. Karandeeva, M.V., Nikolaev, V.A., and Rychagov, G.I., Geomorfologiya zapadnoi chasti Prikaspiiskoi nizmennosti (Geomorphology of the Western Part of Caspian Lowland), Moscow: Mosk. Gos. Univ., 1958.

  7. Kharin, N.G., Nechaeva, N.T., and Nikolaev, V.A., Metodicheskie osnovy izucheniya i kartografirovaniya protsessov opustynivaniya (na primere aridnykh territorii Teurkmenistana) (Study and Cartography of Desertification Processes by Example of Turkmenistan Arid Territories), Ashkhabad: Ylym, 1983.

  8. Kust, G.S., Opustynivanie: printsipy ekologo-geneticheskoi otsenki i kartografirovaniya (Desertification: Principles of Ecological-Genetic Assessment and Cartography), Moscow: Mosk. Gos. Univ., 1999.

  9. Lazareva, V.G., Transformation of spatial structure of vegetation cover of the Northwestern Caspian region related with anthropogenic impact, Izv. Samar. Nauchn. Tsentra, 2018a, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 116–123.

    Google Scholar 

  10. Lazareva, V.G., Specific spatial distribution of vegetation cover in the Northwestern Caspian region, Bot. Zh., 2018b, vol. 103, no. 4, pp. 455–465.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  11. Lazareva, V.G. and Bananova, V.A., Dinamika antropogennogo opustynivaniya v aridnykh landshaftakh Kalmykii (Dynamics of Anthropogenic Desertification in Arid Landscapes of Kalmykia), Elista: Kalmyk. Gos. Univ., 2014.

  12. Neronov, V.V., Anthropogenically based development of steppes in desertified pastures of the northwestern part of Caspian Lowland, Usp. Sovrem. Biol., 1998, vol. 118, no. 5, pp. 597–612.

    Google Scholar 

  13. Petrov, K.M., Bananova, V.A., Lazareva, V.G., and Unagaev, A.S., Dynamics of desertification processes of the Northwestern Caspian region: physical-geographic and social-economic aspects (atlas-monograph), 2016. http://rucont.ru/efd/388835. Accessed July 16, 2018.

  14. Polevaya geobotanika (Field Geobotany), Lavrenko, E.M. and Korchagin, A.A., Eds., Leningrad: Nauka, 1972, vol. 4.

    Google Scholar 

  15. Ramenskii, L.G., Vvedenie v kompleksnoe pochvenno-geobotanicheskoe issledovanie zemel’ (Introduction into Complex Soil-Geobotanical Study of Lands), Moscow: Sel’khozgiz, 1938.

  16. Russian regions: statistical handbook, 2018. http://dl3239. l0adgid-1.icu/?page=lending&wap=no&dt=1&size= no&date=lw&author=Admin&aid=180&key=Регионы_ россии_социально_экономические_показатели_ 2018_статистический_сборник&mark=club&postback_ data=13-84-202007095920363&postback_url=148.

  17. Rychagov, G.I., Hvalyn period in the history of the Caspian Sea, Vestn. Mosk. Univ., Ser. 5: Geogr., 2014, no. 4, pp. 3–10.

  18. Safronova, I.N., Phytoecological mapping of Northern Caspian region, in Geobotanicheskoe kartografirovanie 2001–2002 (Geobotanical Mapping 2001–2002), St. Petersburg, 2002, pp. 44–65.

  19. Svitoch, A.A. and Yanina, T.A., Holocene marine sediments on the Iranian coast of the Caspian Sea, Dokl. Earth Sci., 2006, vol. 410, no. 1, pp. 1166–1169.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  20. Svitoch, A.A. and Yanina, T.A., Chetvertichnye otlozheniya poberezhii Kaspiiskogo morya (Quaternary Deposits of the Coasts of the Caspian Sea), Moscow, 1997.

    Google Scholar 

  21. Viktorov, S.V. and Chikishev, A.G., Landscape genetic series and their significance for the indication of natural and anthropogenic processes, Tr. Mosk. O-va. Ispyt.Prir., 1976, vol. 55, pp. 27–33.

    Google Scholar 

  22. Vinogradov, B.V. and Kulik, K.N., Aerospace monitoring of the dynamics of desertification of the Chernozemelskie pastures of Kalmykia based on repeated surveys, Probl. Osvoeniya Pustyn’, 1987, no. 4, pp. 45–53.

  23. Zalibekov, Z.G., Biological concept of desertification problem, Arid. Ekosist., 1997, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 7–17.

  24. Zolotokrylin, A.N., Klimaticheskoe opustynivanie (Climatic Desertification), Moscow: Nauka, 2003.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Ukhta State Technical University, 169300, Ukhta, Komi Republic, Russia

    V. G. Lazareva

  2. Kalmyk State University, 358000, Elista, Republic of Kalmykia, Russia

    V. A. Bananova & Nguyen Van Zung

Authors
  1. V. G. Lazareva
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. V. A. Bananova
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Nguyen Van Zung
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding authors

Correspondence to V. G. Lazareva or V. A. Bananova.

Ethics declarations

Conflict of interests. The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Statement on the welfare of humans or animals. This article does not contain any studies involving animals performed by any of the authors.

Additional information

Translated by V. Mittova

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Lazareva, V.G., Bananova, V.A. & Van Zung, N. Dynamics of Modern Vegetation for Pasture Use in the Northwestern Pre-Caspian Region. Arid Ecosyst 10, 276–283 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079096120040137

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Revised:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079096120040137

Keywords:

Search

Navigation