Taiga landscapes of the Maya River basin

Abstract

The paper contains the results of the study for taiga landscapes in the Maya River basin, obtained during field surveys, by describing facies, and using cartographic materials. For the first time a map on landscape facies of the Maya River basin was compiled. As a result, a landscape map of the Maya River basin was compiled with the allocation of 10 mapped landscape units by combinations of plant association groups. A map of landscape facies was drawn up for the key site of the Krestyakh area and facies in the vicinity of the Ust-Yudoma settlement were described. The ecological framework of the study area is defined by typical medium taiga larch shrub-greenmoss forests. The Maya River basin is characterised by a high resource significance of the valley-river part of the basin geosystem, which experiences a high anthropogenic load. The obtained materials may become the basis for more detailed landscape analysis of taiga geosystems of Central Yakutia and the foothills of the Dzhugdzhur Ridge, for planning decisions on territorial development.