PROTECTIVE PLANTATIONS ARE SOURCES OF BIODIVERSITY IN THE STEPPE ZONE

The spatial structure of the community is an indicator of the diversity of ecological niches available in this habitat, the richness and completeness of the community's use of environmental resources. The purpose of our research is to determine the species diversity of tree and shrub plants of forest stands located on the lands of the State Unitary Enterprise Agrofonda, which are affected by anthropogenic load and exhaust of road transport. The authors found that field-protective forest belts contribute to the accumulation of species biodiversity among objects of fauna and flora. As a result of research, it was revealed that with the joint growth of ordinary ash and petiolate oak, with a smaller diameter of ordinary ash 17,9 ± 0,59 cm, the diameter of petiolate oak was larger, namely, 28,4 ± 6,3. Conversely, with a larger diameter of oak oak 24,5 ± 2,58 cm, the diameter of ordinary ash was 14,7 ± 0,83.