THE DYNAMICS OF TIMBER STAND PRODUCTION AND COMPOSITION IN DIFFERENT ECOTYPES IN THE "GREAT KOKSHAGA" RESERVE
The article presents data on the regularity in the dynamics of timber stand production and populations of some arborous plants species under various types of conditions, being measured through the stock of stem wood. It is stated that the reserve forests which contain complex spacious mosaics of plantations belonging to different composition and age being formed as the result of anthropogenic and natural destructions represent a well-organized self-developing successional system, which strives for the restoring of an original balanced state determined by the possibilities of the environment. As the result of successions in the reserve forests both species diversity of timber stand and their production will generally go down, which will influence the condition of the whole biota, that in its turn exerts influence on the forest restoring processes and change of species.