INTRALANDSCAPE DYNAMICS OF LAND USE WITHIN THE MESHCHERA LOWLAND OVER THE LAST 250 YEARS
Abstract
To assess the contribution of natural and positional factors in the land use structure and dynamics it is necessary to create a detailed land use reconstruction based on the landscape structure of a territory. The study area is located within the well-studied part of the Ryazan Meschera (Klepikovsky District), on the border of moraine-fluvioglacial and valley-outwash landscapes, in the vicinity of the Lesunovo training and research station. The structure of land use was reconstructed for several periods basing on the methods of combined digital analysis of various historical data (from the Ordnance Survey materials up to present-day imagery). The analysis of land use changes accounts for the contribution of the landscape structure of the territory which includes several natural factors, such as topography, sediments, soils, etc. The positional factor considers for the distance to rivers, roads, villages with due account of the population numbers. The study made it possible to conclude that the spatial structure of land use heavily depends on natural and positional factors (70–80% for particular periods). Over the last 250 years its configuration was relatively stable because it is rather tightly controlled by a combination of nutrient supply in soils and drainage conditions which are the principal limiting factors of agriculture within the Meshchera lowland.
About the Author
V. M. Matasov
Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Russian Federation
Faculty of Geography, Department of Physical Geography and Landscape Science, post-graduate student.
Russian Federation
Faculty of Geography, Department of Physical Geography and Landscape Science, post-graduate student.
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Matasov V.M. INTRALANDSCAPE DYNAMICS OF LAND USE WITHIN THE MESHCHERA LOWLAND OVER THE LAST 250 YEARS. Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Seriya 5, Geografiya. 2017;(4):65-74. (In Russ.)
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