Information-Modeling Technology for the Environmental Monitoring - New Ecoinformatics Tools in Environmental Science: Applications and Decision-making - page 22

Table 1.2 Identi ers adopted
in the GIMS for designation
of the soil-plant formations:
˃ is the area of the soil-plant
formation (10 6 km 2 ) and P is
the production of soil-plant
formation (kg C m − 2 year − 1 )

Type of the soil-plant formation Identifier

Arctic deserts and tundras A

Alpine deserts B

Tundras C

Mid-taiga forests D

Pampas and grass savannas E

North-taiga forests F

South-taiga forests F

Sub-tropical deserts G

Sub-tropical and tropical grass-tree thickets of the
tugai type

I

Tropical savannas J

Saline lands K

Forest-tundra L

Mountain tundra M

Tropical xerophytic open woodlands N

Aspen-birch sub-taiga forests O

Sub-tropical broad-leaved and coniferous forests P

Alpine and sub-alpine meadows Q

Broad-leaved coniferous forests R

Sub-boreal and saltwort deserts S

Tropical deserts T

Xerophytic open woodlands and shrubs U

Dry steppes V

Moderately arid and arid (mountain including)
steppes

W

Forest-steppes (meadow steppes) X

Variably-humid deciduous tropical forests Y

Humid evergreen tropical forests Z

Broad-leaved forests +

Sub-tropical semi-deserts &

Sub-boreal and wormwood deserts @

Mangrove forests #

Lack of vegetation *

The item ESSPC carries out the following tasks:

classi floristic treatments with consideration of micro-relief, soil type

and its salinity, moist and level of the soil brine mineralization;

cation of fl

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identi cation of features of the anomalies in micro- and macro-relief, and

subsurface;

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de nition of the topological structure of the land covers; and

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indication of the state of forests, marshes, agricultural fields, pasture lands, and

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other biomes.