TY  - Data
T1  - The salt deserts of Kazakhstan
A1  - Documentation Information Center
DO  - 10.12389/ariddc.02297
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026-09-11
PB  - Arid Land Ecology and Resources Science Data Center
AB  - At present, the diversity of vegetation cover in arid regions and the uniqueness of the floristic composition of the Northern Turanian deserts have been established. Nevertheless, many plant assemblages and plant communities remain undescribed, and scientists continue to discover new and interesting types. Among the least known are communities of annual saltworts. In her book Saltwort Deserts of Kazakhstan, Z. V. Kubanskaya provided new descriptions of 45 desert vegetation formations and 183 plant communities, many of which were described for the first time. This is particularly important because the development of our country's natural plant resources continues on the basis of further scientific investigation and under conditions of mandatory conservation. The natural resources of the deserts are far from exhausted, and ongoing biological resource inventories open new prospects for integrated utilization, potentially leading to the discovery of new economically valuable resources, including forage plants, pasture and hayfield species, as well as sources of industrial and medicinal raw materials.The author's objective was to collect and present detailed factual material on the communities of annual saltworts in the Northern Turanian deserts of Kazakhstan and their possible applications in the national economy, particularly in animal husbandry.In addition, the geobotanical and ecological-geographical materials presented in this study are valuable for understanding the overall characteristics of desert vegetation in the Soviet Union. As one of the most comprehensive collections of empirical data available, they will undoubtedly serve as an important reference for studies of the ecology and ecomorphology of many desert plant species. For pasture managers and vegetation-improvement specialists, the work provides a summary of forage values and a guide to the seasonal use of grass stands and the proportion of promising forage species in creating and improving pasture comm
DB  - EGIDC
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