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Scientific Review. Biological science
ISSN 2500-3399
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THE HISTORY OF THE NATURE MANAGEMENT AND CURRENT STATE OF VEGETATION OF FOREST LANDSCAPES A LOW PLATEAU OF THE VOLGA UPLAND

Leonova N.A. 1
1 Penza State University
Article examines the impact of economic activity on the transformation of vegetation low plateau Volga Uplands within the Penza region. The author discusses the type of nature management of territories since their settlement to the present time. Analyzes changes in the floristic composition, structure of plant communities of low plateau Volga Uplands, their proportion in the composition of vegetation, as well as variation in the areas occupied by the different types of phytocenoses and anthropogenically transformed areas. Over the past 300 years, the forest cover has been reduced by more than half, and the area of cultivated land increased by 1.5 times. Currently, the natural vegetation has been preserved only in small areas, unsuitable for plowing. Forest vegetation of the low plateau of the Volga upland presented by oak forests, secondary (derived) communities - aspen and birch, pine plantings of different agesIn all forest types in the grass cover is dominated by broadleaf species. Grassy vegetation is represented meadow steppes, steppefied, present and wet meadows.