Landscape Patterns in a Range of Spatio-Temporal Scales

Preface

Part I Theory of Landscape Pattern and Hierarchy

1 Concepts of Landscape Pattern

Alexander V. Khoroshev

2 Polygeosystem Fundamentals of Landscape Science

Alexander K. Cherkashin

3 Multi-pattern (Polystructural) Organization of a Landscape - Geophysical Approach

Part II How Patterns Indicate Actual Processes

4 Representation of Process Development Laws in Morphological Pattern Laws: Approach of the Mathematical Morphology of Landscape

Alexey S. Victorov 5 Transformation of the Chernobyl 137Cs Contamination Patterns at the Microlandscape Level as an Indicator of Stochastic Landscape Organization

Vitaly G. Linnik, Anatoly A. Saveliev, Alexander V. Sokolov

6 Determination of the Order Parameters of The Landscape at the Regional Level

Mikhail Yu. Puzachenko

7 Land Cover Thermodynamic Characteristics Defined by Remote Multispectal Data Based on Non-Extensive Statistical Mechanics

Robert B. Sandlersky, Yury G. Puzachenko, Alexander N. Krenke, Ivan I. Shironya

Part III How Patterns Control Actual Processes

8 Structure and Phytomass Production of Coastal Geosystems Near Lake Baikal

9 Catena Patterns as a Reflection of Landscape Internal Heterogeneity

Irina A. Avessalomova

10 Structure of Topogeochores and Modern Landscape-Geochemical Processes

Yury M. Semyonov

11 Modeling of Hydrological and Climatic Resources of a Landscape for Sustainable Land Use at Small Watersheds

Alexander A. Yerofeev, Sergey G. Kopysov

12 Influence of the Landscape Structure of Watersheds on the Processes of Surface Water Quality Formation (Case Study of Western Siberia)

Vitaly Yu. Khoroshavin, Larisa V. Pereladova, Vladimir M. Kalinin, Artem D. Sheludkov

13 Comparison of Landscape and Floristic Diversity in Plain Catchments at the Level of Elementary Regions

Dmitry V. Zolotov, Dmitry V. Chernykh

Part IV How Patterns Indicate Genesis and Influence Future Evolution Trends

14 Altitudinal Landscape Complexes of the Central Russian Forest-Steppe

Anatoly S. Gorbunov, Vladimir B. Mikhno, Olga P. Bykovskaya, Valery N. Bevz

15 Landscape Structure as Indicator of Debris Flow and Avalanche Activity in the Russian Caucasus Mountains

Marina N. Petrushina

16 Multiscale Analysis of Landscape Structure

Alexander V. Khoroshev

Part V How Patterns Control Dynamic Events

17 Structure and Long-Term Dynamics of Landscape as a Reflection of the Natural Processes and History of Nature Use: the Example of the Northwestern European Russia

Grigorii A. Isachenko

18 Seasonal Dynamics in the Context of Polystructural Organization of Landscapes (on the Example of Sverdlovsk Region)

Olga Yu. Gurevskikh, Oksana V. Yantser

Part VI How Patterns Respond to Climatic and Anthropogenic Changes

19 Dendrochronological Indication of Landscape Spatio-Temporal Organization in the Northern Taiga of West Siberian Plain and Elbrus Region: Astrophysical and Geophysical Drivers of Bioproductivity

Kirill N. Dyakonov, Yury N. Bochkarev

20 Carbon Balance in Forest Ecosystems and Biotic Regulation of Carbon Cycle Under Global Climate Changes

Erland G. Kolomyts, Larisa S. Sharaya, Natalya A. Surova

21 Actual Changes of Mountainous Landscapes in Inner Asia as a Result of Anthropogenic Effects

Kirill V. Chistyakov, Svetlana A. Gavrilkina, Elena S. Zelepukina, Galina N. Shastina, Mikhail I. Amosov

Part VII How Landscape Patterns Affected Land Use in the Past

22 Initial Stages of Anthropogenic Evolution of Landscapes in Russia

Viacheslav A. Nizovtsev, Natalya M. Erman 23 How Natural and Positional Factors Influence Land-Use Change During Last 250 Years in Temperate Russia Victor M. Matasov

24 Landscape Features of the Prehistory of Moscow
About the Author: Alexander Khoroshev is Professor of the Faculty of Geography, Department of Physical Geography and Landscape Science in Lomonosov Moscow State University. His research and teaching acrivity is focused on landscape structure and functioning, landscape geochemistry, landscape planning, environmental impact assessment and projecting ecological networks. He is head of Russian Chapter of International Association for Landscape Ecology. Kirill Dyakonov is Professor of the Faculty of Geography, Head of Department of Physical Geography and Landscape Science in Lomonosov Moscow State University, Member of Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of Presidium of Russian Feographia Society. He performs research in theory of physical geography, landscape dynamics and evolution, landscape geophysics, dendrochronology, ecological examination and environmental impact assessment.