Woody and Shrubby Vegetation Mountain and Forest Belt of the Chechen Republic

Abstract

In recent years, the issue of conservation and balanced use of biodiversity has become one of the priority areas of biology. The reason for this is the paucity of knowledge on plant diversity. Moreover, it is a top priority and urgent issue for an area that has been little studied. Now that a new paradigm has emerged in botany, it is no longer sufficient to say that a particular species is absent or present in a particular region. Information on the degree of occurrence, ecology, and population size of the species is needed to provide important indicators. Despite 300 years of studying the vegetation of Chechnya, rudimentary summaries of both the arboreal fauna and vegetation of this republic do not yet exist. This makes it difficult to determine the regularity of the vegetation cover of the republic, how it is actually formed, its dynamics and future projections.