ECOLOGICAL-GEOCHEMICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE BASIN OF R. KUMA ON THE TERRITORY OF STAVROPOL REGION

Abstract

With an integrated approach to environmental assessment of the environment, it is necessary to consider all factorial features of the territory that influence the indicators of ecological condition of landscape that adapts the methods to the unique condition of each individual natural territorial complex. Applied landscape-ecological work aimed at studying the individual components of the landscape, however, a comprehensive environmental assessment should be based primarily on a comprehensive analysis of the ecological potential of geosystems. In the methodology of integrated assessment of landscape indicators of water stress, calculated for the basin of Kuma within the Stavropol territory and presents the results of ecological-geochemical researches of landscapes of the catchment basin of the river Kuma in the Stavropol region borders with the help of qualitative evaluation. On the basis of the calculated indicators, together giving the values of the anthropogenic load, the created thematic maps industrial, transport, water stress and anthropogenic stress.