Myklush S. Productivity of the plain beech forests and peculiarities of sustainable management planning for this type of forests

Theoretical and methodological fundamentals of growth and productivity modeling of plane beech stands of Ukraine, theoretical-methodological bases of their decoding by using scanned cosmic photos and trends of multipurpose sustainable forest management in plane beech forests are presented in dissertation. Plane beech plantations, owing to manifold influence on environment, successfully accomplish soil-protective, water-protective, water controlling, climate forming, oxygen forming, recreational, raw material and other useful functions. Soil conditions, provenance and character of forest management denote on peculiarities of growth and productivity of beech plantations. It was defined that provenance of plantations determines type of growth of beech plants. Methodological modeling basis of particularities of stand growth was developed by mass materials from base of separate plots "Forest fund". Mathematical models of growth of plain beech plantations by forest types were developed. Yield and phytomass tables were elaborated for most prevailing natural and artificial stands. Theoretical and methodological decoding bases of multisensor scanner satellite images Landsat and Spot were elaborated. This imagery allows classifying of forest area pictures on covered and uncovered forest plots and within covered plots are determined: deciduous, mixed and coniferous plantations, likewise unclosed artificial plants. Beech stands with age division are extracted within class of deciduous plantations. Classification pattern of plain beech stands and conception of multipurpose forest management in it were worked up. Four types, fourteen groups of functions and fifty two functions were extracted. Ten main trends of forest management and transactions were defined in plane beech plantations.