Native vegetation on the International Cooperative Programme on Integrated Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Ecosystems (ICP IM) site on the Polar Circle Regional Reserve Territory
Keywords:
Environmental monitoring, boreal ecosystems, vegetation, Norway spruce, Scots pine, anthropogenic impact, climate change.Abstract
Yu.A. Izrael Institute of Global Climate and Ecology is the
organization responsible in the Russian Federation for the implementation of the
International Cooperative Programme on Integrated Monitoring of Air Pollution
Effects on Ecosystems (ICP IM) under the Convention on Long-range
Transboundary Air Pollution of the UN Economic Commission for Europe. ICP IM
is carried out on a permanent study area network, one of which is the Polar Circle
Regional Reserve. The work purpose was to prepare a geobotanical description of
native vegetation at the ICP IM site located at the reserve for further environmental
monitoring within the mentioned program framework. The work was carried out
according to the methodology recommended by the ICP IM in accordance with the
Program Manual. The parameters of stands, undergrowth, herbaceous-shrub and
ground layer at the considered sites were obtained. It is concluded that it is possible
to conduct baseline environmental monitoring оn the permanent study area using
the obtained data.
