Section

Ecology

Title

CHARACTERISTICS OF FLORA AND FAUNA NEAR URBAN AREAS — HIGHWAY 217 SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM

Сontributors

Dao Thi Chung Thkuy, Master of Environment, Postgraduate Student at the Peoples Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

E. N. Latushkina, Cand. of Tech. Sc., Associate Professor at the Peoples Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the biological diversity of the urban area located near the highway 217 of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. This highway is a major road stretching from the Western to the Eastern border in the North of the country; due to its strategic importance and the state of the high¬way, it requires immediate repair and construction work on the Western section of the road. In order to assess the impact of these works on the environment, it is necessary to characterize the flora and fauna of the mentioned territory. The article presents the results of his own observations, review of available materials, descriptive ecology, surveys of the local population, hunters, workers of forestry and agricul¬ture, have allowed to specify available information on the species diversity of terrestrial and aquatic ec¬osystems. It is established that the species diversity of agricultural ecosystems is characterized by poverty, because due to human economic activity. It is shown that the withdrawal of agricultural land for the con-struction of the roadway and the corresponding road infrastructure will lead to the death of 31 342 species of fruit and forest trees in the province of BA Thiok and 68 424 species of trees and shrubs in the province of Kuan Shon; despite the fact that the biological diversity of natural ecosystems is much richer, but the influence of the road can contribute to the oppression of plants, to the dissection of the habitat of animals and their death.

Keywords

Vietnam, Highway 217, flora, fauna, species diversity

References

1.  Atlas of the World / G. V. Pozdnyak Edit. — M.: PKO “Cartography”. М.: Onyx, 2010. — 256 p.