Forest Monitoring in Urbanized Areas

Long-term stationary investigations in permanent plots have been performed in forests of different types growing in Greater Moscow. Their results have made it possible to reveal the trends essential to the dynamics of these forests and make a prognosis of their condition in the near future. Moreover, they suggest that it is necessary to review some long-standing concepts concerning the processes of forest formation, relationships between the main forest species, etc.     

Strukturno-funktsional'naya rol' pochvy v biosfere (The Structural and Functional Role of the Soil in the Biosphere), Moscow: Geos, 1999, 278 pp.

Russian Journal of Ecology -