MODERN POLLEN SPECTRA IN BROADLEA VED FOREST ZONE AND FOREST-STEPPE ECOTONE
Author analyze the results of 8-years monitoring of modern pollen rain in two vegetation zones (broadleaved forests and forest-steppe) in Tula region. The investigation was conducted with Tauber pollen traps according to the Pollen Monitoring Program standards. Several characteristics of zonal pollen spectra and their local features were detected. The different types of correlation were educed between the pollen spectra and studies of succession on the abandoned agricultural lands in the Kulikovo Pole reserve.