PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE ASSESSMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL RESPONSE OF SCOTS PINE TO CLIMATE DYNAMICS

The individual reaction of the radial growth of 100-150-year-old stands of scots pine of the Usmansky forest of the Voronezh region to the climatic dynamics and heterogeneity of forest conditions is considered. Significant variations in the correlation and synchronicity coefficients of both early and late wood were revealed, up to unknown in individual samples. The most noticeable fea-tures of the reaction of radial tree growth to climatic factors are manifested in the conditions of the Voronezh Nature Reserve, where a diverse gene pool of the population has obviously been pre-served. An individual reaction can be a consequence of both heterogeneity of forest growing conditions or competitive relations in the stand, as well as the result of genotypic differentiation.