Drawing of potential areas of plant communities for geobotanical zoning purposes (on example of Tuva forests)
Based on geobotanical releve GPS coordinates of 7 altitudinal zone associations of Tuva forests and a set of rasters with climatic and topological parameter values, the potential areas of associations has been drawn using the MaxEnt software package. These technique allowed us to extrapolate fragmentary data on specific localities of plant communities to the territory that had not been studied in detail before. The data on the areas of altitudinal zonal associations of forests correspond to real distribution of forests. The analysis of potential areas of these forests has been carried out, the presence of three bioclimatic sectors in Tuva has been confirmed, and their borders have been clarified.