Sampling stations |
Description of stations |
1 |
Near Chita highway, flatland (plain), about 100 m from the highway, border of the reserve, right bank of the Ikura river. Vegetation: sedge-reedgrass meadow. |
2 |
Birobidzhan - Kukan Highway, about 15 km from Birobidzhan, plain, left bank of the Glinyanka river. Vegetation: sedge-reedgrass meadow. |
3 |
Birobidzhan – Kukan Highway, 30 km from Birobidzhan, middle reaches of the Bastak river, left bank. Vegetation: larchen goosefoot (pigweed). |
4 |
Birobidzhan – Kukan Highway, 30 km from Birobidzhan, middle reaches of the Bastak river, right bank, on the slopeside with exposure to the south (the near-to-summit part). Vegetation: cedar-oak forest. |
5 |
Chernukha Mountain, middle part, on the slopeside with exposure to the southeast. Vegetation: cedar- broad-leaved forest, Khingam fir has been reliably proved to die off/dry out (since 2007 till present). |
6 |
Birobidzhan – Kukan Highway, 25 km from Birobidzhan, in the natural boundary/stow ‘Krasnye (Red) Sopki’. Vegetation: oak wood. |