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Title Forests of Volga River Basin under global warming : landscape-ecological analysis and prognosis / editors, Erland G. Kolomyts ... [and others].

Publication Info. Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Climate change and its causes, effects and prediction
Climate change and its causes, effects, and prediction series.
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject Forest ecology -- Russia (Federation) -- Volga River Watershed.
Forest ecology.
Russia (Federation) -- Volga River Watershed.
Forest meteorology -- Russia (Federation) -- Volga River Watershed.
Forest meteorology.
Trees -- Effect of global warming on -- Russia (Federation) -- Volga River Watershed.
Trees.
Russia (Federation)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Kolomyt͡s, Ė. G. (Ėrland Georgievich)
Other Form: Print version: Forests of Volga River Basin under global warming Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science, 2012. 9781622570232 (hardcover) (DLC) 2012018684
ISBN 9781622571079 ebook
162257107X
9781622570232 hardcover
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