Prevailing forest types in the river catchments within the Left-Bank Forest-Steppe zone, Ukraine

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dc.contributor.authorBondar, Oleksandr
dc.contributor.authorRumiantsev, Maksym
dc.contributor.authorTkach, Liudmyla
dc.contributor.authorObolonyk, Iryna
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-09T02:22:03Z
dc.date.available2022-12-09T02:22:03Z
dc.date.issued2020-06-29
dc.description© 2020 Oleksandr Bondar et al., published by Sciendo. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 . The Version of Scholarly Record of this Article is published in Folia Forestalia Polonica, Series A – Forestry, 2020, Vol. 62 (2), 100–113, available online at: https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/ffp-2020-0011 Keywords: catchment area; tributary; forest mensuration database; Sula River; Psel River; Vorskla River; Siversky Donets River; forest-steppe; Ukraine; forest typology.
dc.description.abstractThe aim of the study was to determine the distribution of prevailing forest types within the catchment areas of the biggest rivers in the north-east of Ukraine. During the allocation of the catchment areas of the studied rivers, the MapInfo Professional 12.5 program and the vector map of Ukraine were used. The research covered the forest area (more than 502,000 ha) of the state forest enterprises managed by the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine. The studied area located on the tributaries of the Sula, Psel, Vorskla and Siversky Donets rivers within the Poltava, Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Kyiv and Cherkasy administrative regions of Ukraine. The analysis of the forest fund was carried out based on the electronic subcompartment database of the Ukrderzhlisproekt Production Association, using the application software and geoinformation technologies. It was revealed that a large variety of forest types in the tributaries of the Sula, Psel, Vorskla and Siversky Donets rivers as well as the prevalence of fresh fertile maple-lime oak and fresh fairly infertile oak-pine forest types (in 75 tributaries of Psel, Vorskla and Siversky Donets rivers) and fresh fertile maple-lime oak and fresh fertile hornbeam oak forest types (in 20 tributaries of the Sula River) are due to the relief, hydrological and soil-climatic conditions of the studied area, as well as anthropogenic factor. Assuming homogeneous natural conditions, an insignificant number of forest types are formed (up to five). For a large variety of natural conditions, there are at least six forest types that should be taken into account during forest management, along with the characteristics of the catchment areas of tributaries. The analysed data on the total number of forest types in the catchments of rivers would be appropriate to use in the future when creating a single list of forest types for the Left-Bank Forest-Steppe zone of Ukraine. The prevalence of certain forest types within the catchment areas of tributaries of the Sula, Psel, Vorskla and Siversky Donets rivers directly depends on the soil and climatic conditions, geomorphological structure, relief and anthropogenic influence in the forests. The results should be used in forest management activities to preserve and restore the spe cies diversity of forests within the river catchments.
dc.identifier.citationBondar, O., Rumiantsev, M., Tkach, L. & Obolonyk, I. (2020). Prevailing forest types in the river catchments within the Left-Bank Forest-Steppe zone, Ukraine. Folia Forestalia Polonica, 62(2) 100-113. https://doi.org/10.2478/ffp-2020-0011
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.2478/ffp-2020-0011
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14096/147
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSciendo (De Gruyter)
dc.titlePrevailing forest types in the river catchments within the Left-Bank Forest-Steppe zone, Ukraine
dc.typeArticle

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