Assessment of living ground cover under the influence of logging activities in the taiga zone
Abstract The influence of logging activities on the taiga ecosystems of the North-West is ambiguous. As a result of clear felling, tree and shrub vegetation is destroyed, which subsequently, as a result of a sharp change in environmental factors, makes a fundamental change in the biodiversity of the...
| Published in: | IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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IOP Publishing
2021
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/677/5/052066 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/677/5/052066 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/677/5/052066/pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract The influence of logging activities on the taiga ecosystems of the North-West is ambiguous. As a result of clear felling, tree and shrub vegetation is destroyed, which subsequently, as a result of a sharp change in environmental factors, makes a fundamental change in the biodiversity of the living ground cover. There is a complete change of botanical forest species that are part of the living ground cover for the species diversity characteristic of open landscapes. The overgrowth of clearings with grasses and undergrowths occurs depending on the typological characteristics of the felled stand and the season of the felling year. The subsequent overgrowth of clearings with herbaceous vegetation depends not only on the species composition of reforestation species, but also on various natural conditions - the features of the relief, climatic, soil and hydrological conditions. Therefore, the process of restoration of felling areas is not always positive. In order to ensure rational, sustainable and sustainable forest management, it is necessary for timber industry organizations and specialists of the forestry complex to use various measures prescribed in the “Methodological Recommendations for the Conservation of Biological Diversity in Timber Harvesting in the Vologda Region”. |
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