RESPIRATORY INTENSITY OF POIC PLANTS OF THE LEFT BANK UKRAINE FOREST-STEPPE
The intensity of respiration of poic species of Magnoliopsida 14 families (Dycotyledons) class and 2 families of Liliopsida (Monocotyledons) class was studied. The variation limits of that value were from 0.1 up to 1.54 mg С0 <sub>2</sub> / g of wet weight per hour. The most species had the respiration intensity at a level of 0.21–0.59 mg С0 <sub>2</sub> ∕g of wwt per hour. It was found that the annual species had low and medium values as well as the xerophytic species. It depends on the environmental conditions and a phase of ontogeny.