Processes of forest formation in the narrow forest plants of an environmental value and their influence on the duration of the life cycle of protective forest plantations

In the scientific article “Forest formation processes in narrow forest stands of water conservation significance and the influence of species composition on the life cycle of protective forest stands”, is consider the formation of the species composition of water conservation stands from the young forest stage (20 years) to the ripening age. The initial composition of the planting included ordinary ash, oak oak, linden and a single birch. The article is an analysis of long-term data collected from stock materials and their own research in the system of forest strips of the Stone Steppe (southeast of the Central Black Earth Strip (CCHP)). The essence of the problem lies in the fact that the authors have their own opinion about the decay of artificially created planting: there is no decay of the planting, but a long process of forest formation, as a result of which a new composition of the planting is formed, intermediate species appear that contribute to the establishment of a new main species, not necessarily oak. The conclusion says that according to studies of recent years, viable ash will disappear from the first tier within 1-2 years, and it will be replaced by undergrowth of ash, maple and elm. The first tier for an indefinite period will consist of petiolate oak. To clarify this period, the employees of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Stone-Steppe Experimental Forestry” laid the stationary experience.