State of art in regulatory reference background to estimate non-wood forest resources in the Russian Federation territory

The paper covers the analysis findings of state of art in regulatory reference background to estimate various non-wood forest resource stocks The regulatory tables collected during preparation of the manual for Russian forest resource 9excluding timber) survey publication were applied in such analysis. All available tables (517 tables cited from 226 literature sources) were classified according to forest growing zones and engaged forest regions of the Russian Federation, forest use types and resource patterns. Paper key part shows that most of the regulatory reference tables (For the Russian Federation as a whole) were developed for estimation of food and medicinal resources - over 60%. Almost twice and a half less are designed to estimate non-wood forest resources -25% (130 tables) and least of all for forest use in agriculture - around 15% (75 tables). Irregular is distribution of the tables across the Russian Federation forest growing zones and forest regions. The least part of the regulatory reference tables were designed for the subtundra forest and open boreal woodland zone (9tables) and the semi-desert and desert zone (7 tables)...