The high-mountain pastures of the Eastern Pamirs (Tajikistan) [Elektronische Ressource] : an evaluation of the ecological basis and the pasture potential = Die Hochgebirgsweiden im Ostpamir (Tadschikistan) / vorgelegt von Kim André Vanselow
The high-mountain pasturesof the Eastern Pamirs (Tajikistan)An evaluation of the ecological basis and the pasturepotentialDie Hochgebirgsweiden im Ostpamir (Tadschikistan) - Eine Studie zurErmittlung der ökologischen Grundlagen und des WeidepotenzialsDer Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultätder Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergzurErlangung des Doktorgrades Dr. rer. nat.vorgelegt vonKim André Vanselowaus FlensburgAls Dissertation genehmigt von der Naturwissen-schaftlichen Fakultät der Friedrich-Alexander-UniversitätErlangen-NürnbergTag der mündlichen Prüfung: 3. Februar 2011Vorsitzender derPromotionskommision: Prof. Dr. Rainer FinkErstberichterstatter: Prof. Dr. Cyrus SamimiZweitb Prof. Dr. Michael Richter2“In 1952, I saw the Pamirs for the first time,and I realised that everything before had been just a prelude.”Okmir Agakhanjanz, Na Pamire - Sapiski Geobotanika(On the Pamirs - Chronicles of a Geobotanist, Moscow 1980)34AbstractAim: The breakup of the Soviet Union and the associated independence of Tajikistan in 1991resulted in significant structural changes in the political and socio-economic framework of thisarea. Specifically the Eastern Pamirs, a peripheral and ecologically disadvantaged region inthe outermost east of Tajikistan, was heavily dependent on the economical integration andthe structure of subsidies within the USSR.