INTEGRATED APPROACH TO THE CREATION OF ECOLOGICAL EXPOSITIONS IN NATURAL AND ANTHROPOGENIC LANDSCAPES

Abstract

Ecological exposition as one of the types of landscape exposition, shows plants of certain ecological groups. As a rule, conditions are created for such plants that simulate their natural habitat. At the same time, changing the existing environmental conditions is resource-intensive, and the result obtained cannot fully repeat the natural conditions due to their multicomponent nature and being confined to a certain climatic zone. It is of interest to use the existing natural and anthropogenic conditions for the arrangement of expositions, without changing them, but using the existing resource. The authors highlight the problem of using the coastal territory along the ponds on the Kamenka River of the Main Botanical Garden named after N.V. Tsitsin of the Russian Academy of Sciences (MBG RAS). The paper defines the potential of the territory for creating ecological expositions along the shoreline of the Kamensky Ponds of the Russian Academy of Sciences, using the existing natural conditions. In the course of research, a comprehensive approach to the analysis of natural conditions and historical facts is applied. For the historical analysis, the method of combining planned materials and decoding aerial photographs was used. To describe the environmental factors, a landscape-visual survey of the territory, a combination of satellite images with modern maps, an inventory of green spaces, soil mapping, and an inventory of green spaces were performed. As a result of the research, 10 zones with different environmental conditions were identified. Since the formation of the MBG RAS in 1945, the study area has been allocated to different expositions and zones (Entrance Group, Garden of Coastal Plants and part of the Garden of Continuous Flowering), which over time have completely or partially lost their relevance or decorativeness.