Ruda M.
PhD, Assistant of Department, Institute for Sustainable Development named after
V. Chernovol, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine
Paslavskyi M.
Engineer of the Department of Ecology, Ukrainian National Forestry University,
Lviv, Ukraine
Taras Y.
PhD, Acting Director of Regional Landscape Park “Znesinnia”, Lviv, Ukraine
ECOLOGICAL MONITORING AND DETERMINATION
OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS PARAMETERS IN EQUATIONS
OF WOODY PLANTS
Introduction. The impact of rail transport with its stationary and mobile
sources of environmental pollution creates many problems, since it involves:
disruption in the stability of the natural landscape complexes (NLC) by transport
infrastructure through the development of erosions and landslides; atmospheric
pollution by exhaust gases; a constant increase in the level of soil pollution by
petroleum products, pollutants and sediments, as well as products of blowing-off
and falling of bulk cargo (coal, ore, cement, etc.).
One of the important environmental protection methods is the use of consortive
protective ecotones (CPE) – natural discrete structural units of vegetation cover
which have specific properties, namely, the ability to protect the Environment from
noise, harmful substances, etc., and the railroad tracks – from snow, wind, and other
natural and climatic factors.
Today, in Ukraine, there is a need for solving the scientific and technical task
of improving the normative and technical provision of the quality (protective
efficiency and viability) of CPE’s functioning and its harmonization with
international standards.
One of the global approaches to improving the quality of CPE's operation is to
modernize the requirements and norms that apply to CPE on the basis of
international standards of quality control and environmental management. Under
such conditions, the issues regarding methods for assessing the CPE quality are of
relevance.
CPE is a territorially-integrated forest-planted area that is of rectangular or close
to it shape. The design of the forest belt is the structure of its vertical profile which
determines the degree and nature of the forest belt aerodynamics, as well as its snow-
retaining properties.
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