Churilov A. Flora, vegetation and forests protection of the southern part of Kyiv Polissia

The work is dedicated to the study of the current state of the forestsflora and forest vegetation of the southern part of Kyiv Polissia particular features of its structure, anthropogenic changes and protection. It is established the current state of forest flora, represented by 694 species of 358 genera, 91 families and 5 parts of higher vascular plants. Modern rarity and synanthropic fraction of the studied flora has been identified and analyzed for the first time. It is determined that the forest vegetation of the region belongs to 7 formations, 12 subformations, 54 association groups, 103 associations, its classification scheme has been developed. The main directions of anthropogenic transformation and has a leading role of cutting, pyrogenic and recreational impact, which leading to simplification of the structure and adventisation of forest communities. It is found the present state of the forests protection and proposed measures for its optimization. It is defined the main directions of anthropogenic transformation and determined a leading role of felling, pyrogenicdisturbances and recreationalactivityin these processes.