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Assessment of changes in the landscape by avalanche activity (on landscape characteristics of avalanches frequency)

E. V. Kyul

Science federal state budgetary institution Kabardin-Balkar Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Center of geographical researches, 360002, KBR, Nalchik, 2, Balkarov street

Abstract: In the article the questions of landscape changes caused by avalanches are studied. The author considers the peculiarities of changes in the two components of the landscape: geomorphological and geobotanical, based on the analysis of avalanche pool areas with different frequency of avalanches.

Keywords: mountain landscape, landscape components, mountain ecosystem, geoecological monitoring, avalanche activity, avalanche types, landscape characteristics of frequency of avalanches, landscapegeomorphological zoning, avalanche pool, complex and simple avalanche pool area, frequency of avalanches.

UDC: 911.6.+551.3

Received: 22.05.2014

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