THE WORLD CONFERENCE ON ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION

2005 The World Conference on Ecological Restoration 33
Herbivory tolerance of pines is small, so that herbivory damage a seriously affected their development despite
the lower intensity. Our results reveal ungulate herbivory damage as an important factor to be
taken into account as in reforestation planning.
Keywords: Reforestation, ungulate, herbivory, palatability.
Experience in Working out of a Program of Remediation and Development of
Ural Old-Time Industrial Region
Barysheva 1 N.M., E.N. Avrorin 1 , E.V. Polyakov 2 , G.P. Shveikin 2 , G.G. Mikhailov 3 , A.V. Novosyolov 4 ,
B.N. Smirnov 5 , V.N. Udachin 6 , E.O. Shrumm 7
1 FGUP Russian Federal Nuclear Center - VNIITF, Snezhinsk, Russia.
2 Institute of Solid State Chemistry UB RAS, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
3 South-Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia.
4 Administration of Chelyabinsk region, Russia.
5 RF SRC “Ural Metal Institute”, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
6 Institute for Mineralogy UB RAS, Miass, Russia.
7 Administration of the city of Karabash, Russia
A model of working out of a program for stable development of Ural areas of minerals mining and technological
processing suffered real technogenic disasters is discussed. Approaches to this problem resolution
were developed under two ISTC projects taking the city of Karabash, Chelyabinsk region, for example.
The model orients on internal resources of the territory and includes the assessment of environmental,
resource and technological priorities. Conclusion on first-priority measures for the population protection
were made. Effect produced by the Karabash Industrial Area on the region environment was assessed.
All wastes accumulated in Karabash (composition, properties and amounts) were fully investigated. Existing
and innovative technologies for each type of waste treating were searched out and assessed. Some
of them that can be used specifically for Karabash deposits were experimentally proved. A consistent set
of technologies for waste handling and territory and public health remediation was defined.
Keywords: program, remediation, stable development, assessment, environmental, resource, technology,
priorities.
How to preserve the biodiversity in agricultural landscapes?
Batáry 1 P., A. Báldi 2 , S. Erdös 1 , T. Kisbenedek 3 , K.M. Orci 2 , A. Orosz 1 , T. Rédei 4 ,
M. Sárospataki 5 , T. Szüts 6
1 Hungarian Natural History Museum. Budapest. Hungary
2 Animal Ecology Research Group of HAS and Hungarian Natural History Museum. Budapest. Hungary
3 Department of Natural History. Baranya County Museums Directorate. Pécs. Hungary
4 Institute of Ecology and Botany. Vácrátót, Hungary
5 Department of Zoology and Ecology. Szent István University. Hungary
6 Systematic Zoology Research Group of HAS. Budapest. Hungary
The agriculture intensification in the second half of the 20th century resulted in a dramatic decline of
biodiversity in western Europe. However there are also large agricultural landscapes in Central- and
Eastern European countries (CEE), especially in Hungary. The recent joining to the EU of CEE countries
will probably re-structure agriculture there and will threaten the still relatively high biodiversity by increasing
intensification of farmland management. Can agri-environmental programs balance the expected
decline in biodiversity of the CEE countries if farming will be intensified? We studied this question by
comparing birds, arthropods (orthopterans, bees, spiders, beetles and bugs) and plants of 42 extensively
and intensively cattle grazed paired fields in three regions of Hungary (alkali steppes and meadows in
Central Hungary and alkali steppes in Eastern Hungary). The pastures were paired; an extensively and
an intensively grazed site formed the pair. We found more bird species on intensive pastures, which had
more heterogeneous landscapes with farm buildings and shelters, while the number of individuals were
higher in the extensive sites. We generally found more grasshoppers on the extensive sites, however in
the Eastern Hungarian region there was an opposite, but not significant trend. It seems that the abundance
of grasshoppers is determined by the local factors (vegetation, ground, litter cover, etc.) and by the
landscape factors as well. The preliminary results of the other arthropod taxa indicate that intensively
and extensively grazed sites had different assemblages, but this largely depends on the local vegetation
structure.
Keywords: Agriculture intensification, cattle grazing, arthropods, birds, plants.