Role of aspen and birch kolki in conservation of soil and invertebrates diversity in steppe zone of Ukraine

Abstract

The example of complex approach to research of ecological peculiarities of island forests in the steppe zone of Ukraine is presented. Main ways of pedogenesis, plant species composition and forming of the litter invertebrate complex in mesohygrophilous and hygrophilous sandy biogeocenoses of the second terrace of Samara river valley are characterized.