2025 Ecosystem Transformation 8 (4), 175-188

Features of vegetation and soil cover of the natural recreational zone of the "Krasnodarsky Forest Park" protected area

Litvinskaya S.A., Gorbov S.N., Tagiverdiev S.S. , Salnik N.V., Kozyrev D.A., Skripnikov P.N., Matetskaya A.Yu.

The article presents the description of vegetation and soil cover of the “Krasnodarsky Forest Park” protected natural area. It is the site of the natural and artificial forest established in the 1970s–1980s in the Kuban River valley within the city of Krasnodar. The natural vegetation is dominated by the communities Salix alba L. and Populus alba L. occupying 20% of the area and thriving on alluvial soddy, alluvial meadow and meadow-bog soils. In some places, the isolated patches of chernozem-meadow soils are found. Coastal willow-poplar communities develop on the primitive alluvial-soddy layered soils and represent the disturbed plant formations that retain native edificator species. Among the man-made plantings, the largest area falls on the communities Canadian poplar (Populus × canadensis Moench.), black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) and black walnut (Juglans nigra L.) primarily confined to the sites with the anthropogenically transformed soils. Here, more than 30 invasive species have been recorded. The “Krasnodarsky Forest Park” protected area is generally characterized by the presence of various types of natural and anthropogenically transformed soils differing in morphological and physicochemical features due to specific soil formation in the floodplain.

S. A. Litvinskaya
Southern Federal University
Stavropolskaya St. 149, Krasnodar, 350040 Russia

Kuban State University
Prospect Stachki St. 194/1, Rostov-on-Don, 344090 Russia


S. N. Gorbov
Southern Federal University
prospect Stachki 194/1, Rostov-on-Don, 344090 Russia

Kadyrov Chechen State University
Aslanbek Sheripov St. 32, Grozny, Chechen Republic, 364034 Russia


S. S. Tagiverdiev
Southern Federal University
prospect Stachki 194/1, Rostov-on-Don, 344090 Russia

2s-t@mail.ru

N. V. Salnik
Southern Federal University
prospect Stachki 194/1, Rostov-on-Don, 344090 Russia


D. A. Kozyrev
Southern Federal University
Prospect Stachki St. 194/1, Rostov-on-Don, 344090 Russia


P. N. Skripnikov
Southern Federal University
prospect Stachki 194/1, Rostov-on-Don, 344090 Russia


A. Yu. Matetskaya
Southern Federal University
Prospect Stachki St. 194/1, Rostov-on-Don, 344090 Russia

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