The factors of pyrogenic impact on the taiga geosystems of the Western Baikal region against the background of the modern transformation of the global atmospheric circula-tion are studied in the paper. The results of world scientific research on modeling climate change and related adverse weather phenomena (prolonged droughts, thunderstorm activity, etc.) are presented. The natural factors contributing to the increase in the pyrogenic transformation of geosystems are described. The study of the spatio-temporal distribution of fires is carried out on the basis of data from remote sensing of the Earth. Information about unfavorable weather conditions and dangerous hydrometeorological phenomena, data on atmospheric phenomena (thunderstorm activity), daily values of air temperature and soil temperature under natural cover at different depths are analyzed in order to factorial analysis of forest fire sources in the study area. The characteristic of the current stage of geosystems is given based on field research conducted in June 2020. It was revealed that catastrophic fires registered in the study area in 1997 and 2015 occurred against the background of minimal thunderstorm activity. At the same time, in the central part of the Western Baikal region thunderstorms were the leading factor in the 2015 fires. Five years after the fire, the restoration of mountain taiga light coniferous forests is characterized by the predominance of the community of Chamaenerion angustifolium (L.) Scop. The successional dynamics of the geosystems of mountain taiga dark coniferous forests is going through the Betula rotundifolia Spach. with Ledum palustre L. and cereal-forb ground cover. Undergrowth of tree species (mainly pine) is rare and uneven about 800–1200 specimens per hectare.

Bibaeva Anna Yurievna, Candidate of Sciences (Geography) Research Scientist, V. B. Sochava Institute of Geography SB RAS,1, Ulan-Batorskaya st., Irkutsk, 664033, Russian Federation, e-mail: pav_a86@mail.ru

Bibaeva A.Yu. Pyrogenic Transformation of Geosystems of the Western Cibaikalia: Factors, Conditions, Current State. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Earth Sciences, 2021, vol. 35, pp. 3-18. https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3402.2021.35.3 (in Russian)

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