Characteristics of long-term dynamicsof bovanenkovo gas field vegetation (Yamal peninsula)

About the author:

Dmitrii V. Moskovchenko, Dr. Sci. (Geogr.), Head of the Geoecology Sector, Tyumen Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lead Research Associate, Institute of Environmental and Agricultural Biology (X-BIO), University of Tyumen; moskovchenko1965@gmail.com

Abstract:

According to the field studies and remote sensing data, structural and dynamic changes of the plant cover on the Bovanenkovo gas field on the Yamal Peninsula for a 20-year period of observations have been analyzed in the article. Analysis of materials of aerial, photographic and satellite surveying in different periods of the development of the field (from the end of the 1980s) have identified tendencies of successions caused by man-made factors. On sites of anthropogenic impact, vegetation forms several ecological and anthropogenic dynamic stages, the properties of which depend on the types of impact, features of the biotope, and indigenous plant communities. The most active recovery is observed in moss and grass-shrub-moss boggy tundra areas and grass-hypnum communities in gullies. Revegetation of drained lakes (“khasyreys”) along with formation of gigrophytic grass-sedge-hypnum communitiesis commonly observed. Active growth of shrub communities typical for southern subarctic tundra areas is revealed, which corresponds to the ideas about the impact of warming on arctic ecosystems.

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