MAPPING OF POTENTIAL PRODUCTIVITY OF FOREST GEOSYSTEMS AND ITS INFLUENCE ON FOREST MANAGEMENT IN THE BAIKAL REGION
E.L. MAKARENKO
V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 664033, Irkutsk, ul. Ulan-Batorskaya, 1, Russia
elmakarenko@bk.ru
Keywords: forest vegetation communities, bonitet, reserves, stand growth, natural-territorial complexes
Abstract
An assessment and mapping are made of the potential productivity of forest natural-territorial complexes (geosystems) of regional dimension as well as of its influence and the influence of the entire set of natural conditions on the development of for est management in the Baikal region. The investigation determined the productivity of forest which was identified with the pro ductivity of the main forest-forming woody specie - edificators of the phytocenotic part of forest geosystems. The following indi cators were used in assessing the productivity: bonitet, the mean reserves and the mean growth of timber. The productivity of forest geosystems was compared with the economic zones of forest development, and with the types of forest management in them. A high degree of influence of the productivity of forests and of the entire set of natural conditions on the development of the types of forest management was determined, based on using the raw-material and ecological functions. Types of promising forest man agement were identified within the boundaries of the ones of forest development.
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