Landscape dynamics specific features of the river Volga estuarine natural systems particularlong inundable territories

Abstract

Multi-method landscape-ecological researches results on stationary parts in the river Volga delta, transformed to rank of natural sanctuary in the period of 1978-2016 are presented in this work. The main landscape dynamics tendencies are discovered, natural and anthropogenous factors of soil and vegetation cover are estimated for peculiar long inundable territories: water-soluble salts cationicanionic analysis and their migration specific features and accumulation in dependence of the limited natural and anthropogenous factors changes for long inundable soil cover for forty years period; integrated effect of meteorological, hydrological, adaphic and anthropogenous factors cumulative changes on different years fluctuations and seral vegetational change for vegetation was revealed. Multi-year researches results show that the main factors, defining content and highly soluble salts radial migration in soils, also vegetation productivity and its species composition are hydrological regime (most of all – spring-summer floodings character) and territory climatic specific features. However, it is necessary to take into account local secondary effects influence, which can have an effective refracted impact on ambient background signals besides the main primary factors effect.