1.5. Landscape belts
The following landscape belts locate within the
coastal zone in direction from the shore into the land (Fig. 15):
1. Samur-Devechi region:
low-lying with semi-desert vegetation, bushes and
low-land broad-leaf forests on the alluvial-meadow-woody non-carbonate, meadow-greysih and
greyish saline soils - from -27 m to 200 m;
foothill semi-steppe with fragments of sparse forest and
bushes on the alluvial-meadow-woody non-carbonate and alluvial-meadow carbonate soils -
from-20 m to 500-600 m;
low-mountain woody on the mountain-woody greyish-brown
and mountain-woody brown typical and carbonate soils - from 500 m to 1000-120 m;
middle-mountain woody with post-woody bush vegetation on
the mountain-meadow greyish-brown and mountain-woody brown typical and carbonate soils -
from 1000 m to 1800-2200 m;
subalpine on the mountain-meadow, turf and peat
primitive soils - from 2200 m to 2400 m;
alpine on the mountain-meadow, turf and peat primitive
soils - from 2300 m to 3000 m;
invalve with fragments of rocks and deposits - over 3000
m.
2. Pri-Caspian-Apsheron region:
low-lying semi-desert with ephemeral and secondary weed
vegetation mainly on the grey - greyish-brown saline soils - from -27 m to 200 m;
foothill semi-desert with fragments of arid sparse
forest and bushes on the alluvial-meadow-woody and alluvial-meadow carbon soils - from 200
m to 500-600 m;
foothill semi-desert with fragments of ephemeral
vegetation on the chestnut-coloured soils - from 200 m to 500-600 m;
low-mountain woody-steppe on the mountain
chestnut-coloured soils - from 500 to 800-1000 m.
3. Gobustan region:
low-lying semi-desert with prevalence of
wormwood-karagan-saline vegetation on the greysih-meadow and greyish soils - from -27 m to
200 m;
foothill semi-desert with fragments of ephemeral
vegetation on the chestnut-coloured soils - from 200 m to 500 m;
low-mountain woody-steppe on the mountain
chestnut-coloured soils - from 500 m to 800 m.
4. South-East Shirvan region:
5. Mugan-Salyan region:
low-lying semi-desert with prevalence of saline,
wormwood-saline and partially sandy vegetation with fragments desert groups on the
greyish-meadow saline soils - from -27 m to 0 m;
low-lying semi-desert with prevalence of
wormwood-karagan-saline vegetation on the greyish-meadow and greyish soils - from -27 m to
0 m;
6. Lenkaran region:
low-lying semi-desert with prevalence of
wormwood-karagan-saline vegetation on the greyish-meadow and greyish soils- from -27 m to
200 m;
low-lying with meadow water-marsh vegetation, low-land
alder forests and damp-subtropical forests on the meadow-marsh and yellowish-ashed soils -
from -27 m to 200 m;
7. Talysh region:
foothill woody-steppe on the mountain chestnut-coloured
soils - from -27 m to 500-600 m;
foothill woody with damp-subtropical relict forests of
Gircanian type, mainly on the yellowish-ashed soils - from 200 m to 500-600 m;
low-mountain woody of Gircanian type on the mountain
yellowish thin and ashed soils - from 500 m to 1000-1200 m;
middle-mountain woody of Gircanian type on the
mountain-woody greyish-brown soils - from 1000 m to 2000-2200 m;
middle-mountain steppe with xenofitic vegetation on the
mountain-woody brown typical and alkalined mountaibn chestnut-coloured soils - over 2000
m.
Reference
Atlas of Azerbaijan SSR. – Baku-Moscow; GUGK, 1963.
Budagov B.A., Eyubov A.D. Map of landscapes and
physical-geographical zonation of Azerbaijan SSR. – Moscow; GUGK, 1978.
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SSR, 1987. v.XVIII, ? 7, p.67-70
Museibov M.A. Landscapes of Azerbaijan SSR. – Baku;
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