Assessment of Road Network's Plant Cover in Specially Protected Natural Reservation "Besputskaya Polyana" (Central Pre-Caucasus): Potentials for Ecological Restoration
The article addresses the issues of anthropogenic transformation of the SPNR “Besputskaya Polyana” plant cover exposed to spontaneous invasions of campers. Such impact results in emergence of synanthropic plant communities in steppe road segments and invasion into the composition of the cosmopolitan species' natural complexes. In order to hold back the expansion of the nature reserve's lands disturbed by vehicles and to suppress the overgrowth of persistent weeds, an old road segment has been through ecological restoration by means of the complex method.