THE PROBLEM OF DESERTIFICATION IN THE KIZLYARSKY BAY UNESCO BIOSPHERE RESERVE

Authors

  • Stanislav S. Shinkarenko Federal Scientific Center for Agroecology, Complex Land Reclamation and Protective Afforestation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Volgograd, Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9269-4489
  • Gadzhibek S. Dzhamirzoev Tembotov Institute of Ecology of Mountain Territories of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dagestan State Nature Reserve, Makhachkala, Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1137-2726
  • Aleksandr A. Vasil’chenko Federal Scientific Center for Agroecology, Complex Land Reclamation and Protective Afforestation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Volgograd, Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9591-6895

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17072/2079-7877-2021-4-99-112

Keywords:

Dagestan Nature Reserve, landscape degradation, Caspian region, protected areas, remote sensing

Abstract

Unfavorable hydrothermal conditions and excessive pasture loads in the European South of Russia led to dust storms in September and October 2020 and in May and June 2021. As a result, the area of desertification in the Republic of Dagestan, the Republic of Kalmykia, Astrakhan Oblast and Stavropol Krai has increased several times. The UNESCO biosphere reserve ‘Kizlyar Bay’ is located in the north of Dagestan. Economic activities, including grazing, are allowed in its cooperation zone. Overgrazing led to a 15% (about 90 km2) increase in the area of land without vegetation in 2021 as compared to 2019. It is necessary to take urgent measures aimed at regulating livestock population, controlling compliance with the grazing regime of distant-pasture cattle breeding, carrying outvegetative reclamation, and organizing a monitoring system to prevent further pasture degradation in the cooperation zone of the reserve.

Author Biographies

Stanislav S. Shinkarenko, Federal Scientific Center for Agroecology, Complex Land Reclamation and Protective Afforestation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Volgograd, Russia

Сandidate of Agricultural Sciences Researcher, Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution "Federal Scientific Center of Agroecology, Complex Land Reclamation and Protective Afforestation of the Russian Academy of Sciences"

Gadzhibek S. Dzhamirzoev, Tembotov Institute of Ecology of Mountain Territories of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dagestan State Nature Reserve, Makhachkala, Russia

Candidate of Biological Sciences, Senior Researcher Institute of Ecology of Mountain Territories named after A.K. Tembotova RAS, Deputy Director for Research, Federal State Budgetary Institution "State Reserve "Dagestansky"

Aleksandr A. Vasil’chenko, Federal Scientific Center for Agroecology, Complex Land Reclamation and Protective Afforestation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Volgograd, Russia

Laboratory assistant-researcher of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution "Federal Scientific Center of Agroecology, Integrated Land Reclamation and Protective Afforestation of the Russian Academy of Sciences"

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Published

2021-12-30

How to Cite

Shinkarenko С. С. ., Dzhamirzoev Г. С. ., & Vasil’chenko А. А. . (2021). THE PROBLEM OF DESERTIFICATION IN THE KIZLYARSKY BAY UNESCO BIOSPHERE RESERVE. Geographical Bulletin, (4(59), 99–112. https://doi.org/10.17072/2079-7877-2021-4-99-112

Issue

No. 4(59) (2021): GEOGRAPHICAL BULLETIN

Section

Ecology and Environmental management