ISSN: 0024-1148 Russian Journal of Forest Science. 2015, No. 5, pp. 379-387


HOW TO CONSERVE THE BIODIVERSITY AND WHICH FOREST BIODIVERSITY SHOULD BE PRESERVED IN THE EUROPEAN PART OF RUSSIA? A SPEECH OF THE FOLLOWER OF THE ACTUAL BIOGEOGRAPHY

A. A. Tishkov
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Science
Staromonetny In. 29, Moscow, 119017, Russia
E-mail: tishkov@biodat.ru


Received 21 February 2015


Conservation and restoration of biodiversity of forests with the method of territorial protection, i.e. establishment of the protected natural forest areas. We critically review the approaches of O.V. Smirnova et al. (2015) to take the “model reconstructions of potential forest cover” (forests having the composition, structure and biological diversity of flora and fauna specific for the preanthropogenic period) as a basis for practice. From the perspective of the concept of Anthropocene, proposed in the paper, we overview the challenges of forest protection, taking into account the recent state of the last thousands of years, and the pool of biodiversity preserved by the functioning of the regional succession system.



  • Keywords: forests of the European part of Russia, potential biota, protected natural area, Holocene, Anthropocene, landscape fragmentation, succession.


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