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Contemporary Problems of Ecology

2015 year, number 4

Compensation Reactions of Forest Stands in the Western Caucasus to the Reduction of Density of Dominants

V. V. AKATOV
Maikop State Technological University, 385000, Maikop, Pervomaiskaya str., 191
Keywords: forest stands, tree species, dominants, compensation processes, species richness, the Western Caucasus

Abstract

The reaction of forest stands of the Western Caucasus to the possible reduction in the density of dominant species was estimated. The results showed that the increase in the number of accompanying tree species, growth of their habitats and appearance of new species (the compensation processes) should be expected. Moreover, in some types of forest stands the essential increase in the density of only one accompanying species - preferably, the subdominant - was predicted; in other types of forest stands - the increase in the density of two or three accompanying species; in yet other types of forest stands - the increase in the density of the majority of accompanying species. Such division can be explained by different proportion of the species with dissimilar life strategies in the forest stands.