The Fourth Seminar of the Autumn Series of Seminars of the International Laboratory of Landscape Ecology Took Place

At the seminar held on November 21, 2024, MLLE employees Anastasia Dolbnya, a research intern, and Anna Derkacheva, a researcher, talked about modeling the distribution of vegetation classification units (Brown-Blanke system) in the tundra zone of Western Siberia.

The vegetation cover of the tundra zone of Western Siberia is characterized by high significance for economic activity in the region and poor knowledge at the community level. The latter is directly related to the poor accessibility of this territory with its large size. Modeling the distribution of plant communities depending on preferred environmental conditions can help in understanding their spatial distribution. In this paper, communities of various hierarchical levels of the Brown-Blanke classification were simulated using machine learning. The report presents the created data set on the ecological conditions of the tundra of Western Siberia, technical and methodological results of the work, as well as preliminary geobotanical estimates of the obtained maps of the distribution of plant communities.