2025 Ecosystem Transformation 8 (1), 48-65

Forest plantations changed under Sterlitamak industrial center conditions (Southern Urals, Republic of Bashkortostan) during the period 2013–2023: causes and practical significance

Tagirova O.V., Kulagin A.Yu.  

The results of assessing the relative living condition of woody plants of the Sterlitamak Industrial Center based on permanent test areas conducted in 2013, 2023 are presented. It is shown that over a 10-year period, against the background of a decrease in the annual volumes of industrial pollutionof the environment, the condition of tree plantations changed from the category "weakened" (65%) to the "healthy"one (84%). In the conditions of the industrial zone, the hanging birch turned out to be the most resistant to a complex of extreme natural and man-made factors. At the same time, a significant improvement in the living condition of birch plantations was also noted for the residential and recreational zone. A similar pattern of positive changes in the condition was noted for linden, oak, poplar, spruce and larch. The periodic determination of the relative living condition of tree plantations allows us to form an idea of the changes occurred under prolonged anthropogenic effects, to identify prospects for preservation of existing plantations and to justify the measures for their reconstruction.

O. V. Tagirova
Ufa Institute of Biology – a separate structural unit of the Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Prospeсt Oktyabrya 69, Ufa, 450054 Russia


A. Yu. Kulagin
Ufa Institute of Biology – a separate structural unit of the Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Prospeсt Oktyabrya 69, Ufa, 450054 Russia

coolagin@list.ru

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