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Contemporary Problems of Ecology

2005 year, number 4

On the Tasks of Russian Dendrology in the XXI Century

I. Yu. KOROPACHINSKY

Abstract

The latest analysis of the state of dendrological studies in Russia was carried out by V. N. Sukachev in 1921 and published in the Works of the All-Russia Forest Conference. For the past 83 years many new botanical gardens have been created (in Russia, there are over 80 of them), dendrological studies in many biological institutes and universities have been enlarged. New tasks associated with development of eastern regions of Russia and with the necessity of solving the problem of comprehensive investigation and protection of genetic pool of arboreal plants in nature and culture have arisen before dendrologists. In the present paper, tasks are considered that it is necessary to solve in the first place and in more remote perspective. Therein, a special attention is paid to introduction of arboreal species of various botanic-geographical regions of Eurasia and North America in Russia, and modern notions of the state of arboreal plants of the n