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Title Forests of Volga River Basin under global warming : landscape-ecological analysis and prognosis / editors, Erland G. Kolomyts ... [and others]
Published Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science, 2012

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Series Climate change and its causes, effects and prediction
Climate change and its causes, effects, and prediction series.
Contents FORESTS OF VOLGA RIVER BASIN UNDER GLOBAL WARMING (LANDSCAPE-ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND PROGNOSIS) ; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data ; CONTENTS ; INTRODUCTION ; Chapter 1 FOREST RESOURCES OF THE VOLGA RIVER BASIN UNDER HUMAN IMPACTS ; ABSTRACT ; 1.1. INTRODUCTORY NOTES ; 1.2. COMMON CHARACTERISTIC OF FOREST RESOURCES ; 1.3. PHYTOCOENOTIC DIVERSITY OF FOREST ECOSYSTEMS; 1.4. FLORISTIC DIVERSITY OF FORESTS ; 1.5. FOREST RELICTS OF GEOLOGICAL PAST AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR PREDICTIVE ECOLOGICAL SCENARIOS ; 1.6. ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS ON FOREST ECOSYSTEMS
1.6.1. Timber, Woodworking and Pulp-and-paper Industries 1.6.2. Recreational Load ; Chapter 2 ZONAL ORGANIZATION OF FOREST BELT ON THE RUSSIAN PLAIN UNDER CHANGING CLIMATE ; ABSTRACT ; 2.1. REGIONAL ECOLOGY AND PROBLEM OF GLOBAL CHANGES ; 2.2. ZONALITY AS AN OBJECT OF ECOLOGICAL- GEOGRAPHICAL INVESTIGATION ; 2.3. CONCEPTUAL CYBERNETIC MODEL OF NATURAL LANDSCAPE ; 2.4. BOREAL ECOTONE OF THE VOLGA RIVER BASIN AS OBJECT OF LANDSCAPE-ECOLOGICAL MODELING AND PROGNOSIS ; 2.4.1. Boreal Ecotone as a Vector Landscape-ecological System
2.4.2. Classification and Factor-dynamic Series of Landscapes at Nature Zones 2.5. ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL ZONE AND ZONAL BOUNDARIES FORMATION ; 2.5.1. Mechanisms of Zonal Boundary Formation ; 2.5.2. Zonal Ecotone as a Trigger System ; 2.5.3. Climatic Niches and Stability Reserve of Geo(eco- )systems; Chapter 3 EMPIRICALLY OF PREDICTIONS AND PALEOGEOGRAPHICAL RECONSTRUCTIONS ; ABSTRACT ; 3.1. PREFATORY REMARKS; 3.2. BOREAL ECOTONE OF RUSSIAN PLAIN AS A "QUICKLY RUNNING" MODEL OF THE GLOBAL CHANGES ; 3.3. EMPIRICAL MATERIALS FOR MODELING
3.3.1. Regional Characteristics of Climate, Plant and Soil 3.3.2. Large-scale Experimental Test Sites ; 3.3.3. Systems of Local and Regional Landscape Couplings; 3.3.4. Parameters of Plant Matter Cycles ; A. Phytomass (tons/ha): ; B. Productivity (tons/ha per year): ; C. Complex Indices of Biological Cycle : ; 3.4. CALCULATIONS OF DERIVATIVES FROM LANDSCAPE-GEOPHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS ; Chapter 4 ANALYTIC METHODS OF EMPIRICAL-STATISTICAL MODELING OF ECOSYSTEMS ; ABSTRACT ; 4.1. ESPECIALLY OF LANDSCAPE-ECOLOGICAL MODELING ; 4.2. MONOSYSTEM MODELS
4.2.1. Informational Measures of Component Interconnections 4.2.2. Modeled Distribution of Ecological Niches ; 4.2.3. Types of Schemes of Binary Ordination of the Component Attributes ; 4.3. POLYSYSTEM MODELS ; 4.3.1. Methods of Calculation ; 4.3.2. Matrices and Graphs of Inclusion Relations between the Objects ; 4.3.3. Distinguishing of Ecological Groups of Geo(eco- )Systems ; 4.3.4. Local Empirical Simulation of the Regional Bioclimatic Trend ; Chapter 5 REGIONAL BIOCLIMATIC SYSTEM AND ITS PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE ; ABSTRACT ; 5.1. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Forest ecology -- Russia (Federation) -- Volga River Watershed
Forest meteorology -- Russia (Federation) -- Volga River Watershed
Trees -- Effect of global warming on -- Russia (Federation) -- Volga River Watershed
NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Forests & Rainforests.
NATURE -- Plants -- Trees.
Forest ecology
Forest meteorology
Russia (Federation) -- Volga River Watershed
Form Electronic book
Author Kolomyt︠s︡, Ė. G. (Ėrland Georgievich)
LC no. 2020679783
ISBN 9781622571079
162257107X