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Man-made Ecosystems and Nature Conservation, with Special Reference to Matsalu Bay, Estonian SSR

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Erik Kumari
Erik Kumari
Affiliation:
Professor of Biology, Commission for Nature Conservation, Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR, 21 Vanemuise Street, Tartu, USSR
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Besides areas with primeval Nature, it is also necessary to protect man-made ecosystems. Under European conditions it is particularly important to turn into protected areas some near-natural landscapes which have never undergone great changes in land-use. One of these territories in the eastern Baltic region is the area of Matsalu Bay, which since 1957 has been the site of the largest Baltic nature reserve, possessing highly specific and valuable ecosystems. The Matsalu landscape is characterized by pasture lands, moist meadows, vast reed-beds, wooded meadows, and juniper groves, which have all been subjected to extensive human influence in the course of several centuries. Under contemporary conditions of management the preservation of these landscape types is somewhat difficult, but it is necessary to find suitable measures to effect it.

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Main Papers
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , Spring 1974 , pp. 31 - 36
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1974

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