Multi-author book published
19 December 2011
Through the efforts of Siberia’s leading scientists and a team of authors from the “Khakassia” State Natural Reserve - and with the support of the Volnoe Delo Foundation - the Ecosystem and biodiversity of the “Lake Shira” area of the “Khakassia” State Natural Reserve, edited by V.V. Nepomnyashy, is finally seeing publication.
This book is a regular volume from an entire series of scientific publications devoted to the research of the various areas and sectors of the “Khakassia” State Natural Reserve.
The “Lake Shira” area of the reserve is of special interest due to it containing part of the waters of Lake Shira, a low-mineralized reservoir widely aknowledged for its valuable therapeutic and recreational resources. The lake is one of the reservoirs subject to study by various international programs - and its shores are, among other things, home to the Biophysics Research Hospital, of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The book present the results of years of research conducted in the area, with the analysis of long-term literary and stock data on its flora and vegetation, as well as the condition and quality of the environment of this vast territory. And, of course, the aquatic fauna of Lake Shira itself is also prominently presented on the pages of this publication. Materials of original long-term observations of the restoration of severely degraded bunchgrass steppes have also undergone extensive analysis and summary and are exhaustively presented in the book.
We would like to remind readers that the first multi-author book in the series, the Ecosystems and biodiversity of the "Lake Itkul” area of the “Khakassia” State Natural Reserve is already available, and in the next 10 years monographs on all of the cluster areas of the “Khakassia” State Natural Reserve are planned for publication.
The authors and editors sincerely hope that readers will find these publications to be not only engaging, but useful, and that they will lead to original research in the future.