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The Role of Protective Afforestation in Drought and Desertification Control in Agro-Landscapes
This paper reviews the historical use of agro-ameliorative and protective afforestation to combat drought and desertification in agricultural lands. It shows the current state of forest plantations in the arid...
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Water-Regime Formation in Sands of the Archeda–Don Massif with Respect to the Distribution of Plant Formations
Remote monitoring and landscape–environmental profiling of the Archeda–Don sand massif made it possible to assess the state of the soil–vegetation cover and to determine the groundwater level and inclination. ...
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Bench Sands and Their Role in Water Recharge to Rivers in the Don Basin
Water balance studies have been carried out in the territory of sand massifs in the Don River Basin. The studies were mostly focused on the water-regime plots in Kalachevsko-Golubinskie and Archedinsko-Donskie...
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Geoinformational Analysis of Desertification of the Northwestern Caspian
Analysis of the dynamics of modern desertification of the Northwestern Caspian with the use of geoinformation technologies and aerospace data showed that the area of degraded and desertified lands in the regio...
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Global Processes of Deflation in Steppe Ecosystems
The modern steppe zone of Eurasia is an active arena for the blowing of mineral matter out of the land surface and for its incorporation to the global process of exchange of matter and energy. The ploughed soi...
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On the 30th Anniversary of the “General Plan to Combat Desertification of Black Lands and Kizlyar Pastures”
This paper reviews the main historical stages of the development and implementation of the largest environmental project of the late 20th century—the “General Plan to Combat Desertification of Black Lands and ...
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Forecast assumption and analysis of the development of protective afforestation in the Volgograd region
The article highlights the role of protective forest plantings in stabilizing and improving environmental conditions in the agricultural sector. The science-based approach to the agroforestry practices and the...
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Assessment of attractiveness of objects of landscape architecture heritage in the territories of the Volga upland
This article describes the experiments on identifying the attractiveness of the objects of landscape architecture heritage in the Volga upland, which confirm the need to restore this kind of landsca** for th...
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The Structure of Plant Communities of Fallow Land in the System of Protective Forest Plantations in Dry Steppes
The article presents data on the species composition and coenotic structure of the plant commu-nities of 20-year-old fallow grasslands in the system of protective forest plantations. It was found that the spee...
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Geoinformation analysis of desertification dynamics in the territory of Astrakhan oblast
The dynamics of desertification spots in Astrakhan oblast was studied on the basis of their geoinformation map**. Analytical maps showing the spatial locations of desertification spots were constructed. A co...
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Forecasting the development of protective afforestation in Russia until 2020
Based on an analysis of the environmental situation in the agricultural sphere of the country, the paper gives a forecast of the development of protective afforestation in Russia until 2020, considers its role...
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Arid ecosystem dynamics and self-pulse processes
A computational algorithm to study the dynamics of arid soil-plant ecosystems is given. During the simulation, a weighted, signed, directed graph of self-pulse process which is associated with the phenomena of...
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Geoinformation analysis of desertification hotspots in Astrakhan oblast
The paper examines the structure of landscape desertification in Astrakhan oblast. The degradation is estimated based on aerospace information and the distribution of hotspots by classes of area. The changes i...
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Water budget of the soils of sand massifs (with the Ust’-Kundryuchensk massif in rostov oblast as an example)
Sand massifs in the steppe zone with coarse-textured sandy or loamy sandy soils are mainly characterized by the percolative type of the soil water regime. The annual precipitation penetrating into the groundwa...
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Dynamic stability of arid ecosystems
Questions relating to the stable functioning and restoration of soil-vegetation systems in zones with increased aridity are considered. New methodological possibilities of mathematical models in the form of or...
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Optimizing snow distribution and available moisture supply in contour field-protecting and runoff-regulating forest belts and in forest-ameliorated landscapes
Criteria and principles of optimizing snow deposition in a system of runoff-regulating forest belts with respect to their direction relative to cardinal points, width of the space between belts, floristic and ...
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Automated interpretation of protective forest plantings on high-resolution satellite images
An important problem in forestry interpretation of satellite images is the identification of areas with a different species composition. Visual interpretation is presently supported by means of computer techno...
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Interaction of point and dipole vortices in an incompressible liquid
We discuss the interaction between point vortices and point dipole vortices in two-dimensional ideal hydrodynamics and show that the equations of motion of the interacting point and point dipole vortices are e...
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Computer-aided mathematical cartographic modeling of agroforestry landscapes on the basis of aerospace information
As a result of investigations with the use of mathematical cartographic models, thematic maps of natural resources management in the investigated territory are created with maximum consideration of the charact...
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Prognosis of the spatiotemporal dynamics of ecosystems by means of universal kriging
The use of quantitative data for constructing prognostic maps of the dynamics of ecosystem degradation and restoration by nonlinear simulation methods is a topical field of landscape ecology. This method of dy...
