The impact of logging on reforestation in permafrost areas and environmental consequences

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Background. Against the general background of climate warming, the development of forests during logging in forests on permafrost can have global consequences. Continuous deforestation changes the microrelief, the physical properties of the soil, and the thawing temperature of the active layer increases.

Purpose. Review and analysis of scientific literature on deforestation and ecological consequences on soils with permafrost.

Materials and methods. In the course of the research, a search and analysis of scientific literature on the topic of research from 1940 to 2022 was carried out using the resources of the eLibrary search engines, the Google Academy and stock library materials.

Results. Forests on permafrost are extremely vulnerable, and when the forest cover is disturbed, they change until they turn into wastelands. When harvesting wood, there is a violation of the natural course of the renewal of woody vegetation on soils with permafrost. When cutting down forest plantations, the air temperature changes in the direction of an increase in degree, the composition of soils and their humidity change. As a result, the ice under the soil is melting - karst processes are developing.

The greatest changes in permafrost conditions were observed after continuous logging in larch plantations. Continuous logging dramatically shifts the carbon balance of the forest ecosystem towards the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Conclusion. Forests in forested areas with the spread of permafrost need to preserve and restore felled areas. Researchers have accumulated extensive experience in assessing the state of reforestation and ways to promote it. Continuous logging makes significant changes to the forest environment. Anthropogenic changes manifest themselves in different ways: from the change of the main rock to the manifestation of thermokarst, solifluction.

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Anna V. Shemyakina

Far Eastern Scientific Research Institute of Forestry

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Email: Ashem777@mail.ru
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Leading Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences

Russian Federation, 71, Volochaevskaya Str., Khabarovsk, 680020, Russian Federation

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