Dynamic Trends of 100-year Anthropogenic Vegetation Cover under the Influence of the White Sea – Baltic Canal

• Published in: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
• Main Author: Vampilova, L B
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: IOP Publishing 2021
• Subjects: White Sea; karelian
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/817/1/012110; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/817/1/012110; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/817/1/012110/pdf

Abstract The process of economic use of the White Sea region landscapes has historically impacted the vegetation cover trends. The reason lies in the intensity of development adjusted for time factor. We have provided a variety of events related with nature resource management of the Karelian Pomorye landscapes involved in iron production, salt making, sawmills construction, shipbuilding, building of railway and the White Sea – Baltic Canal (WBC), marshland reclamation, housing development and wood logging. These are the types of forest resources which did impact tree layer depletion. We have pre-conditioned to use a geobotanical map of the Shueretsko-Sorokskaya Forest Dacha, Kem Uyezd, the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, which was compiled under the direction of K. F. Malyarevsky in 1925. An idea leaped into our mind to trace long-term influence made by the anthropogenic factor on differentiation, dynamics and stability processes experienced by swamp and forest geosystems. The research problem is the study of the duration and limitation of development, chronological researching role in landscape transformations. The original features of the study conducted to develop historical and geoecological line of geography.