Impact of mining industry on the vegetation of the Jewish autonomous region

The article shows the impact of mining industry on the vegetation cover of the Jewish Autonomous region, which is located in the Middle Amur region of Russia. The analysis of this type of anthropogenic influence is based on actual materials providing information on the location of mineral resources, their development and size, as well as the types of plant groups according to the G.E. Kurentsova vegetation map of the Jewish autonomous region (1963). The authors revealed the size of the total disturbed area (2337.5 ha), its distribution between 19 vegetation formations, the predominant transformed plant community consisting of baulic-sphagnum and grass, rarely resistant, with spruce and fir, Manchurian birch, in intermountain depressions and wide river valleys. It is determined that the largest areas of negative impact on vegetation in the region are associated with the extraction of alluvial gold (626.1 hectares).