Abstract: The article describes the ecological and geographical properties of Transbaikalia: the continental climate, mountain-hollow relief, high landscape and biological diversity. Trans-Baikal territory has a long history of development of the territory, which resulted in the greatest anthropogenic transformation undergone intermountain basin. In the last time in Transbaikalia observed rise in average temperatures both summer and winter seasons, which leads to the degradation of permafrost, and activation processes of desertification and changes of natural landscape.
Материалы VII Международной научной конференции «Устойчивое развитие горных территорий в условиях глобальных изменений» (Владикавказ, 14-16 сентября 2010г.). - Владикавказ: Изд. " Терек", 2010г. - 1523с. ISBN 978-5-901585-58-0