Geological-Geomorphological Analysis of National Natural Parks of the North-Western Part of the Ukrainian Carpathians

Kravchuk, Yaroslav; Brusak, Vitaliy

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“…The range in this area is the widest, as well as the residuals of the oldest near-range flattened surface (300-400 m). (Kravchuk, 2008). Slopes of this massif are densely cut by the network of permanent and temporary water currents that supply the rivers Vycha (a tributary of the Latorytsia), Borzhava and Rika (a Tysa tributary).…”

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Rationale for the creation and planning organization of the national nature park within the boundaries of the Borzhava mountain range

Teslovych¹,

Krychevska²

2023

Journ. Geol., Geogr., and Geoec..

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To date, Transcarpathian region is where the conservation indicator in Ukraine is the highest (15.52%). However, the network of natural geosystems includes areas that – due to absence of well-established mechanisms of nature protection – are being harmed by by excessive economic development and use of outmoded environmental management approaches. One such important natural complex requiring protection of its biotic and landscape diversity is the Borzhava range. In this paper, the authors provide a rationale for the creation of the National Nature Park (NNP) within the boundaries of the Borzhava mountain range, taking into account the landscape and bioecological approaches, as well as accounting for the limiting factors of the existing manage- ment of natural resources. We determined the optimal location for the park, delineated its configuration, boundaries, and total area, and proposed a cartographic model of its functional zoning. We identified the NPP’s role in the regional econetwork and the main negative anthropogenic factors that must be regulated. In order to solve the aforesaid tasks, the authors clarified the boundaries of the Borzhava mountain range and high-landscape areas. We charted a schematic map and a supporting table «Existing environmental preservation territories within the Borzhava physical-geographical sub-district in the landscape areas» to the scale scale of 1: 500,000. To identify the functional and regime zones of the proposed park, we have compiled the «Species and age structure of forests, vegetation groups of meadows and other non-forest lands within the projected Borzhava NNP» map. In particular, it identifies species and age charac- teristics of forests, groups of shrubs and herbal phytocenoses in the meadows within the previously outlined NNP territory. To analyze the anthropogenic factors, economic and other functional zones influencing the park’s ecosystems, the authors charted the additional schematic maps of «Functional purposes and forms of ownership of land proposed to be included in the boundaries of the Borzhava NNP» and «Categories of land and forests suggested for inclusion in the Borzhava NNP». The authors believe that the research presented in this article gives ample reason for designing a Park’s project with further submission of necessary materials to be reviewed by the Department of ecology and natural resources of Transcarpathian region.

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Rationale for the creation and planning organization of the national nature park within the boundaries of the Borzhava mountain range

Teslovych¹,

Krychevska²

2023

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Nature reserve foundation of Skibovy Gorgany: structure and prospects of optimization (Ukrainian Carpathians)

Brusak

Popyk

2022

Man and Environment. Issues of Neoecology

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Purpose. Revealing of the structure and features of the nature reserve fund (NRF) of Skibovy Gorgany and the prospects for its optimization. Methods. Field, processing of environmental services` fund materials, statistical and geospatial analysis, cartographic. Results. The fund materials of environmental services have been processed, the structure has been established and specific features of Skibovy Gorgany nature reserve fund have been clarified. There are 190 objects of the nature reserve fund with total area of 62,961.3 hectares in Skibovy Gorgany. The structure of the NRF was analyzed by categories, area and number of protected objects, their level of importance and objects of protection. Brief description and a complete list of categories of the nature reserve fund are given. The list and characteristics of unique and valuable inanimate nature objects of Skibovy Gorgany as a kind of natural region of the Ukrainian Carpathians and within the nature reserve "Gorgany" are given. The problems of development are pointed out and the ways of improving the protection of valuable geomorphological objects by creating new objects and expanding the existing nature reserves of the Skibovy Gorgany NRF are suggested. Conclusions. There are few protected sites in Skibovy Gorgany, aiming to preserve valuable inanimate natural objects, especially geomorphological ones. Among the latter, within the Ukrainian Carpathians the following valuable objects should be identified: fields of stone placers and glacial boilers (сirque), large landslides and screes, rock outcrops, canyon-like areas of river valleys with rapids, mudflow cones. It could be proposed to create the Regional Landscape Park in the area of the Syvulyansky mountain range and the Rushchyna montane meadow with tract “Peklo” and the sources of the Bystritsa Solotvynska River.

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Relief and geological structure of Vyzhnytskyi and Cheremoskyi national natural parks (Ukrainian Carpathians)

Brusak

Kravchuk

2022

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Purpose. Analysis of the relief and geological structure of Vyzhnytskyi and Cheremoskyi national natural parks (NNP) as important components of natural complexes, which, as well as biota, are objects of nature conservation institutions. Methods. Field research, geological-tectonic and general geomorphological analysis of the NNP’s relief, review of regional descriptive materials and maps. Results. Vyzhnytskyi NNP and Cheremoskyi NNP are located in the South-Eastern part of the Ukrainian Carpathians within the Chernivtsi region. The analysis of the morphostructure and morphosculpture of NNPs is carried out taking into account the longitudinal (N-W – S-E) and transverse divisions of the Ukrainian Carpathians. The longitudinal division is associated with morphostructures of higher orders, such as second and third, and the transverse is associated with fourth and fifth orders of morphostructure. The analysis of morphosculpture of NNPs shows the types characteresed the Carpathian Flysch and Сrystalline Carpathians. Mountain ranges and ridges such as Bukovyna med-mountains, Pneve-Yarovytsi and part of Chyvchyn mountains are characterized by an asymmetrical structure – steep northeastern slopes and declivous southwestern slopes. The relic morphosculpture is represented by: 1) fragments of denudation surfaces of different ages such as Polonynska and Pidpolonynska within Cheremoskyi NNP as well as Karmaturska (analogue of Pidbeskid) within Vyzhnytskyi NNP; 2) extra glacial landforms within Cheremoskyi NPP; 3) areas of ancient longitudinal valleys. The inherited morphosculpture is represented by river valleys with a complex of terraces of different ages. The premountain part of Vyzhnytskyi NNP includes the relict ("dead") morphostructure of Bagno river valley. Modern morphodynamic processes represent a height (tier) differentiation. The highest tier of apical surfaces in the subalpine zone (1,450–1,600 m) of Cheremoskyi NNP is characterized by processes of slow displacement of debris and manifestations of gravitational, avalanche and nival processes. In the tiers of strongly dissected mеd-mountain and low-mountain relief of NNPs, the processes of planar erosion, deflux, and linear erosion play an important role in the modelling of the relief. The lower tier of the terraced and non-terraced bottoms of the valleys are associated with the processes of leaching and erosion as well as a significant accumulation of erosion products and mudflows. Among gravitational processes and block motions, stabilized and active displacements are the most recorded. Conclusions. In general, the territories of Vyzhnytskyi NNP and Cheremoskyi NNP fully represents the features of geological structure and relief of the south-eastern part of the Ukrainian Carpathians. In conjunction they form a fairly transverse conservation profile of the region from the premountain uplands to the highest ridges of the Marmarosy (Crystal) Carpathians.

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Geological-Geomorphological Analysis of National Natural Parks of the North-Western Part of the Ukrainian Carpathians

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Rationale for the creation and planning organization of the national nature park within the boundaries of the Borzhava mountain range

Rationale for the creation and planning organization of the national nature park within the boundaries of the Borzhava mountain range

Nature reserve foundation of Skibovy Gorgany: structure and prospects of optimization (Ukrainian Carpathians)

Relief and geological structure of Vyzhnytskyi and Cheremoskyi national natural parks (Ukrainian Carpathians)

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