KFU. Card publication. Basin-Scale Approach to Integration of Agro- and Hydroecological Monitoring for Sustainable Environmental Management: A Case Study of Belgorod Oblast, European Russia

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BASIN-SCALE APPROACH TO INTEGRATION OF AGRO- AND HYDROECOLOGICAL MONITORING FOR SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY OF BELGOROD OBLAST, EUROPEAN RUSSIA

Form of presentation

Articles in international journals and collections

Year of publication

2022

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Authors, employees of KFU

Gusarov Artem Viktorovich, author

Liseckiy Fedor Nikolaevich, author

Other authors

Buryak Zhanna , author

Kitov Mikhail , author

Narozhnyaya Anastasiya , author

Bibliographic description in the original language

Buryak, Z.; Lisetskii, F.; Gusarov, A.; Narozhnyaya, A.; Kitov, M. Basin-Scale Approach to Integration of Agro- and Hydroecological Monitoring for Sustainable Environmental Management: A Case Study of Belgorod Oblast, European Russia // Sustainability (Switzerland), 2022, 14, 927.

Annotation

The quantitative and qualitative depletion of water resources (both surface and groundwater) is closely related to the need to protect soils against degradation, rationalization of land use, and regulation of surface water runoff within the watershed area. Belgorod Oblast (27,100 km2), one of the administrative regions of European Russia, was chosen as the study area. It is characterized by a high activity of soil erosion (the share of eroded soils is about 48% of the total area of arable land). The development phase of the River Basin Environmental Management Projects (217 river basins from the fourth to seventh order) allowed for the proceeding of the development of an integrated monitoring system for river systems and river basin systems. The methods used to establish a geoecological network for regional monitoring include the selection and application of GIS techniques to quantify the main indicators of ecological state and predisposition of river basins to soil erosion (the share of cropland and forestland, the share of the south-oriented slopes, soil erodibility, Slope Length and Steepness (LS) factor, erosion index of precipitation, and the river network density) and the method of a hierarchical classification of cluster analysis for the grouping of river basins. An approach considering the typology of river basins is also used to expand the regional network of hydrological gauging stations to rationalize the national hydrological monitoring network. By establishing 16 additional gauging stations on rivers from the fourth to seventh order, this approach allows for an increase in the area of hydro-agroecological monitoring by 1.26 times (i.e., up to 77.5% of the total area of Belgorod Oblast). Some integrated indicators of agroecological (on the watershed surface) and hydroecological (in river water flow) monitoring are proposed to improve basin environmental management projects. Six-year monitoring showed the effectiveness of water quality control measures on an example of a decrease in the concentrations of five major pollutants in river waters.

Keywords

Water resources; river basin; watershed; arable land; soil erosion; water quality; ecoregion; Central Russian Upland

The name of the journal

Sustainability (Switzerland)

URL

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/2/927

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Field DC	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Gusarov Artem Viktorovich	ru_RU
dc.contributor.author	Liseckiy Fedor Nikolaevich	ru_RU
dc.contributor.author	Buryak Zhanna	ru_RU
dc.contributor.author	Kitov Mikhail	ru_RU
dc.contributor.author	Narozhnyaya Anastasiya	ru_RU
dc.date.accessioned	2022-01-01T00:00:00Z	ru_RU
dc.date.available	2022-01-01T00:00:00Z	ru_RU
dc.date.issued	2022	ru_RU
dc.identifier.citation	Buryak, Z.; Lisetskii, F.; Gusarov, A.; Narozhnyaya, A.; Kitov, M. Basin-Scale Approach to Integration of Agro- and Hydroecological Monitoring for Sustainable Environmental Management: A Case Study of Belgorod Oblast, European Russia // Sustainability (Switzerland), 2022, 14, 927.	ru_RU
dc.identifier.uri	https://repository.kpfu.ru/eng/?p_id=283918&p_lang=2	ru_RU
dc.description.abstract	Sustainability (Switzerland)	ru_RU
dc.description.abstract	The quantitative and qualitative depletion of water resources (both surface and groundwater) is closely related to the need to protect soils against degradation, rationalization of land use, and regulation of surface water runoff within the watershed area. Belgorod Oblast (27,100 km2), one of the administrative regions of European Russia, was chosen as the study area. It is characterized by a high activity of soil erosion (the share of eroded soils is about 48% of the total area of arable land). The development phase of the River Basin Environmental Management Projects (217 river basins from the fourth to seventh order) allowed for the proceeding of the development of an integrated monitoring system for river systems and river basin systems. The methods used to establish a geoecological network for regional monitoring include the selection and application of GIS techniques to quantify the main indicators of ecological state and predisposition of river basins to soil erosion (the share of cropland and forestland, the share of the south-oriented slopes, soil erodibility, Slope Length and Steepness (LS) factor, erosion index of precipitation, and the river network density) and the method of a hierarchical classification of cluster analysis for the grouping of river basins. An approach considering the typology of river basins is also used to expand the regional network of hydrological gauging stations to rationalize the national hydrological monitoring network. By establishing 16 additional gauging stations on rivers from the fourth to seventh order, this approach allows for an increase in the area of hydro-agroecological monitoring by 1.26 times (i.e., up to 77.5% of the total area of Belgorod Oblast). Some integrated indicators of agroecological (on the watershed surface) and hydroecological (in river water flow) monitoring are proposed to improve basin environmental management projects. Six-year monitoring showed the effectiveness of water quality control measures on an example of a decrease in the concentrations of five major pollutants in river waters.	ru_RU
dc.language.iso	ru	ru_RU
dc.subject		ru_RU
dc.title	Basin-Scale Approach to Integration of Agro- and Hydroecological Monitoring for Sustainable Environmental Management: A Case Study of Belgorod Oblast, European Russia	ru_RU
dc.type	Articles in international journals and collections	ru_RU