RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST SCIENCE, 2022, No.1, P. 3–12


FORMATION OF AGE STRUCTURES OF INDIGENOUS TAIGA SPRUCE FORESTS IN EUROPEAN RUSSIA
V.G. Storozhenko
Institute of Forest Science, RAS
Sovetskaya st. 21, Uspenskoe, Odintsovsky District, Moscow Oblast, 143030, Russia
E-mail: lesoved@mail.ru


Received 27 April 2020
The article discusses the lack of research on the structures and patterns of formation of indigenous virgin forests of evolutionary development as standards of sustainable forest communities. The aim of the research is to study the processes of formation of stands’ age structures and tree decay with the participation of wood-destroying fungi of biotrophic and xylotrophic complexes of indigenous spruce forests of the taiga zone as important factors determining the quality of stability of forest communities. For the study, the indigenous spruce forests of different ages of evolutionary formation in the forest massifs of the taiga zone, northern, middle and southern taiga were accepted. The age series of stands have different numbers and volumes of trees in the age generations, which determines the diversity of the dynamic characteristics of the biogeocenoses. The average ages of stands and the maximum ages for fir trees of the first generations are calculated. The average ages of stands and the maximum ages for fir trees of the first generations are calculated. The indicators of tree infestation in the age generations of the age series of phytocenoses are described in numerical and volumetric values. For all biogeocenoses, the number and volume of dead trunks were calculated, with a distribution by stages of decomposition with time dating of the stages.
The obtained data allowed us to formulate the thesis that the processes of formation of the biomass of stands, the distribution of trees in the age generations of the age range of stands, the weakening of trees by fungi of the biotrophic complex, the accumulation of tree fall in the composition of stands, its transition to the category of dead wood, the decomposition of the trunks of dead wood to the state of humus by the xylotrophic complex fungi, all constitute a single process balanced in time and volume of wood, which determines the stability of forest communities.
Keywords: native spruce forests, age structures, infestation of stands with wood-destroying fungi, number and volume of dead trees
DOI: 10.31857/S0024114821060097


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