USE OF WOODS TYPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS IN ASSESSING MELLIFEROUS CAPACITY OF FORESTS
Forest resources, especially those that are contiguous with the inhabited conglomerations, play a special role in maintaining of ecological balance of areas, as well as in sustaining the environment that provides healthy conditions for people. Beekeeping production does not only bring economic benefits but also raises forests productivity by enhancing forest plants pollination processes, which contributes to the preservation of biological diversity and improves the resistance of anthropologically changed forest areas. When organizing forest beekeeping, it is necessary to take into consideration particular features of each forest type as well the presence and variety of melliferous plants. The article presents a typological analysis of forest ranges as a case-study of North-West highlands of sag-and-swell moraine plain of the right bank of the Desna river located in the Sothern belt of the mixed forests subarea (the North-West part of Bryansk Oblast). It has been found that the local forests have high honey production potential, and there has been given a case for possible creation of melliferous plants ranges by means of silvicultural measures.