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COMPLEX MONITORING AND ELABORAT  

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  • Substantiation of Activity Protected natural areas (PAS) are national patrimony objects. PAS are very important in nature conservation, especially in preservation of environmental standards and plant and animal gene pools, and in maintenance of ecological balance. PAS are conductive to renewal of natural resources and improve the quality of human environment. The importance of ecological monitoring in the Arctic and Subarctic zones within the framework of the International Polar Year is due to a low level of stability of the Arctic, Subarctic and northern Taiga ecosystems under the pressure of anthropogenic load and, consequently, their high vulnerability. Complex ecological research is planned on the territory of the reserves heavily affected by pollution: the Kostomukshskii and the Pasvik state nature reserves. The Kostomukshskii reserve is situated in the north-eastern Karelia, near the border with Finland. In 1990, a Russian-Finnish reserve “Druzhba” (“Friendship”) was founded, represented by the Kostomukshskii reserve on the Russian side and by five isolated PAS on the Finnish side. An ore mining and processing enterprise (OMPE) is situated very close to the reserve, emitting into the atmosphere up to 60-70 thousand tons of pollutants annually, including up to 50 thousand tons of sulphur dioxide. The Pasvik reserve is situated in the Pechanga district of the Murmansk region, in the River Pas catchment area, near the border with Norway. An OMPE “Pechanganikel’” is situated at a distance of 15 kilometres from the reserve, emitting into the atmosphere up to 260 thousand tons of sulphur dioxide, 300 tons of nickel and 230 tons of copper annually. Main research objectives Development and implementation of a program of complex PAS monitoring, for development of rational schemes of nature protection and management in PAS. Development and implementation of an IAS on PAS of the Russian Polar Zone on the basis of GIS technologies, for support of management decisions. Ecological education and increasing public awareness of PAS as a mechanism of wildlife conservation. Research stages Stage 1. Collection of information available in the library stocks and its analytical review. Stage 2. Creation of a set of basic digital cartographic materials on the territories in question, development and substantiation of information system structure and composition of information resources. Stage 3. Complex field research at the pilot objects, including eco-geochemical testing and other specialised investigations. Stage 4. Chemical-analytical investigations. Stage 5. Office studies of the materials collected and the incoming analytical data. Compilation of the factual information bank. Stage 6. Development of a programme of complex monitoring (involving climate, eco-geochemical, landscape and biocenological, social and ethnographic factors, economic activity, management, etc.). Stage 7. Elaboration and implementation of an IAS of PAS, loaded with data on specific objects. Stage 8. PAS popularisation by means of development of a web-site “Polar Zone PAS”, reports and publications. Summary provided by http://classic.ipy.org/development/eoi/proposal-details.php?id=284 (en)

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