Syntaxonomy and ecology of hygro-mesophytic aspen forests in Southern Nechernozem’e of Russia

In the paper syntaxonomy and ecology of the hygro-mesophytic aspen forests in the South Nechernozem’e of Russia are discussed. These communities are distributed on the places of broadleaved-coniferous forests in the region. They combined into a non-range community assigned to class Vaccinio–Piceetea.