Authors: Башта А.-Т.В., Гамкало З.Г., Гірна Г.Я. та ін.

Summary: Scientific works summarizes the research on the structural and functional organization of secondary forest, post-forest and post-agrarian ecosystems of Western Polissya, Northern Podillia and Beskydy (Ukrainian Carpathians), which are in the process of spontaneous sylvatization. The historical and ecological aspects of the process of self-afforestation are considered, as well as theoretical and practical aspects of the regional determinants of sylvatization processes and their role in the formation of zonal or azonal types of ecosystems. The nature and trends of changes in the species composition and structure of zoocenoses, the balance of the components of biogeochemical cycles of Carbon are shown, and the bioproductivity of soils is assessed. The state of ecosystems naturalness that are formed during self-afforestation is assessed, and based on indicators of species diversity and functional organization of phyto- and zoocenoses, changes in the physico-chemical properties of soils and the transformation of organic compounds of Carbon. Scientific recommendations are proposed for optimizing the economic use or environmental protection regime of ecosystems formed as a result of sylvatization. The obtained results are the significant contribution to deepening the theory of ecosystemology and environmental science, as well as a prerequisite for effective planning of measures for ecosystem-oriented management of forest and agricultural lands in the western regions of Ukraine.

Reading audience: For ecologists, specialists of environmental protection institutions, teachers of higher educational institutions of natural sciences, students and doctoral student.

ISBN 978-617-8055-53-0

Responsible institutions: Ін-т екології Карпат НАН України

Published: Lviv

Size in pages: 152

Print run: 100