THE CONDITION OF PROTECTIVE FOREST PLANTS IN DIFFERENT SOIL CONDITIONS OF KAMA REGION
The results of the study of protective forest plantations state in the Eastern Kama region of the Republic of Tatarstan are presented. The assessment of the study area landscape, the soil conditions for the formation of protective forests is given. Under the canopy of forest phytocoenoses, brown-brown forest, gray forest soils and rendzins are identified. Pine, spruce, birch, and poplar protective plantations, pure and mixed in composition, were studied. On the trial plots the taxation indicators of stands are determined. The peculiarities of the distribution of trees along the thickness steps and categories of the state are revealed. In pine biogeocenoses there are obviously more trees without signs of weakening: the content of healthy trees is 70.5-87.4%. Less stable are pine plantations created on stony soils of a steep slope. A higher proportion of healthy trees are allocated pine phytocenoses formed on loamy brown soils. Protective plantations of Almetyevsky municipal district, created from European spruce on soils with a developed profile, are distinguished by a high proportion of trees without signs of weakening. In the composition of deciduous plantations, a high percentage of trees without signs of weakening are inherent in the mulberry, which grows on brown-brown forest heavy loamy soil. There are no strongly weakened and drying trees. Birch grouse, formed on rendzine leached heavy loam on stony calcareous rocks, is less stable: the proportion of weakened trees increases to 20.1%.