Interrelation of Diversity Levels of Land Cover and Lithology and the Anthropogenic Impact on Canopy Cover in the Mountainous Area

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631.47

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10.17238/issn0536-1036.2016.6.76

Abstract

The spatial pattern of the landscape depends on the environment factors and anthropogenic activity. The human activity has widely modified the original type of land cover and signifi-cantly has changed the level of the external impact on the landscape. The level and the result of anthropogenic factor intrusion into the interrelation of the landscape and the environment are of current interest. The factors, reflecting the influence of the environment, cause a greater degree of variability of the main types of land cover than the geographical factors. Moreover, such factor as a lithology coefficient can characterize the distribution of forest and productivity types of land cover. The paper considers the development question of prac-tical recommendations on the optimal experimental studies to determine the interrelation of the Shannon diversity factor of land cover and of the lithological factor. The analysis of the interrelation indicates that the formulated question can be successfully solved by the formu-lation of the minimization problem of the residual information in the area, formed by the curve of the single-factor analysis of dependence of the diversity coefficients of land cover and lithology. The analysis of existing materials demonstrates the lack of the models taking into account both direct and indirect impacts of the anthropogenic factor on forests. We pre-sent such model where the indirect effect is realized using the landslide factor, which is a cumulative indicator of different anthropogenic factors. The synthesis problem of the ex-treme mode of felling by optimizing the developed model is formulated and solved.

Authors

F.E. Gulieva, Postgraduate Student

Affiliation

National Aerospace Agency, S.S. Akhundova ul., 1, Baku, AZ1115, Azerbaijan; e-mail: Fidash11@hotmail.com

Keywords

lithology, landscape, optimization, diversity, anthropogenic activity, measurement.

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Gulieva F.E. Interrelation of Diversity Levels of Land Cover and Lithology and the Anthropogenic Impact on Canopy Cover in the Mountainous Area. Lesnoy zhurnal (Forestry journal), 2016, no. 6, pp. 76–88. DOI: 10.17238/issn0536-1036.2016.6.76

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Received on February 26, 2016