Study of the Geosystems of the Central Part of the Barguzinskii Range (Gisbaikalia)

The research was carried out in the Baikal region, in its northeastern part – in the Barguzinsky ridge. This is a specially protected area of the Baikal region (Barguzinsky Reserve, which requires scientifically based environmental management planning with the study of landscape components individually and as a whole, as well as the creation of landscape maps that reflect the current state of these landscapes. The landscape structure of the ridge is dominated by alpine geosystems. In the key area, char and mountain taiga forests occupy equal areas. At the latter, vegetation was studied in detail as the most quickly responsive component to various changes. In total, about forty detailed geobotanical descriptions were made. The 1:50,000 scale landscape map was created as a result of field work, analysis of satellite images and topographic maps. At the topological level, the map displays the landscape structure of the facies rank.