MODERN TRENDS OF FORESTS FORMATION AT DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONTACTS IN THE BAIKAL REGION

We present here the results of studies of the structure and trends of forests formation in the zone of the transition of polydominant dark-coniferous – light-coniferous forests into dark-coniferous taiga, as well as at the contact site of forest and sub-goletsy belts and mountain tundra in different Pre-Baikal areas. The main structural and spatial-dynamic peculiarities of forest communities structure reflecting different forms of the development of forest vegetation surrounding Lake Baikal are given.