Ecological and functional features of forest plantations of the Forest-steppe of Ukraine

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33730/2310-4678.4.2021.253081

Keywords:

ecosystem services, threats, forest ecosystems, directions of reproduction

Abstract

Forest plantations are very important to provide the raw materials and living needs of the population, despite the various ways of their origin, formation and development. They are an important factor in restoring the ecological and biological balance of agricultural lands and objects for the formation of floristic and faunal diversity, the creation of new topical links, the balanced reproduction of new biogeocenoses. Therefore, the forest ecosystems of the Forest-Steppe of Ukraine are considered based on their importance and value for the studied area, in addition, the leading directions of socio-economic services and features of their manifestation and development are reproduced. A very important aspect of stabilization and reproduction of the natural state of forest plantations, along with studies of ecosystem services that can provide these plantations, is the dependence of their existence on the existing set of threats. Therefore, a list of major threats to ecosystem services has been developed, where they are presented in terms of threats to biodiversity development. The most important of which are continuous felling on large areas and excessive plowing of land, resulting in a decrease in the percentage of forest cover in this area. Regarding the complex of identified threats to the existing forest plantations, their main features and possible directions of their reproduction and preservation are given. It is especially important in this direction to increase the forest cover of the territory, create additional field protective forest strips to increase their number and territorial availability and reduce the anthropogenic load on forest ecosystems.

Author Biographies

O. Furdychko, Institute of Agroecology and Nature Management of NAAS

Doctor of Economics, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

I. Tymochko, Institute of Agroecology and Nature Management of NAAS

Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, PhD student

I. Solomakha, Institute of Agroecology and Nature Management of NAAS

Candidate of Biological Sciences

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2021-10-28

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