Functioning Conditions of the Don-and-Chir Interfluve Agroforestry Landscapes

Scientific Agronomy Journal. 2023. 1(120). pp. 38-45
Agroforestry melioration
UDC 630.232.22
DOI: 10.34736/FNC.2023.120.1.006.38-45
Maxim M. Kochkar, Cand. Sci. (Agr.), e-mail: mmk_7@mail.ru, ORCID: 0000-0003-1458-0731
Olga M. Vorobieva, Cand. Sci. (Agr.), ORCID: 0000-0001-6299-4977
Anastasia V. Vdovenko, Cand. Sci. (Agr.), ORCID: 0000-0003-2253-3783
Valentina P. VoroninaDr. Sci. (Agr.), ORCID: 0000-0002-3441-5314 “Volgograd State Agricultural University”, e-mail: volgau@volgau.com, 400062, Universitetskiy Prospekt, 26, Volgograd, Russia
Abstract.The relevance of the topic is due to a high share of erosion threatening agricultural landscapes within the boundaries of the Don-and-Chir interfluve. When maintaining adaptive landscape agriculture, it is necessary to take into account the landscape and ecological characteristics of the territory in the implementation of planning and designing anti-erosion measures and calculating the necessary areas for creating protective forest plantations. The purpose of the research was to determine the conditions for the catchment area functioning in the research territory using laboratory and field methods. The novelty of the research was in the application of an integrated approach in assessing the conditions of functioning of catchment areas, including geomorphological, soil and climatic characteristics. Generally accepted methods were used in the research of relief elements, soil conditions, and taxation characteristics of protective forest stands. The objects of research were agroforestry landscapes of the Don-and-Chir interfluve. According to the results of the research, the assessment of the functioning conditions at the test site “Nizhneosinovsky” was given, the provision of catchment areas with forest plantations, which are represented by protective and anti-erosion forest belts, was revealed. The exposure of the slopes, topography dissection of the territory, the spatial distribution of agricultural land by erosion funds on the test site territory site were determined. The data obtained make it possible to use them in the forest reclamation arrangement of agrolandscapes affected by degradation processes. Updated data on landscape and erosion characteristics and suffiency of forest reclamation measures will contribute to the formation of proposals to land users and farmers on forest reclamation arrangement and integrated protection of agricultural landscapes.
Keywords:agroforest landscape, catchment area, protective forest plantations, forest reclamation, relief, erosion fund