Environmental peculiarities of the steppe vegetation of Western Podolia (Ukraine)

The article deals with the environmental peculiarities of edaphic and climatic conditions of formation of the steppe vegetation in Western Podolia (Ukraine). It has been shown that the parameters of all ecological factors have mainly narrow amplitudes. It is established that the communities of the steppe vegetation of the investigated region are formed on the neutral semi-eutrophic, heminitrophilic, hemicarbonate soils, and in the most extreme conditions, the communities of associations Teucrio-pannonici – Stipetum capillatae are formed.