Structure of aspen forests of Zakamje of the Republic of Tatarstan

The article focuses on the low forest cover of the Republic of Tatarstan, the need to maintain a regional forestresource base, the prospects for increasing the economic potential of forests without compromising their environ-mental functions. As one of the ways to achieve this goal, the prospects of increasing the productivity of the aspenformations of the Republic of Tatarstan through their reconstruction are considered. For the subsequent develop-ment of a complex of forestry measures for qualitative improvement of aspen trees, it is proposed to study the struc-tural organization of the aspen. In this case, the example of the physical and geographical region of Zakamye of theRepublic of Tatarstan.The specificity of this work is that the study of the area of the aspen propagation of Zakamye of the Republic ofTatarstan, the accumulation of the timber stock, the characteristics by class of bonitet and relative completeness –was carried out in the context of types of forest conditions by age groups.As a result, an informative set of data on the age structure of the aspen formations of Zakamye of the Republicof Tatarstan, the features of their localization in various types of forest habitat conditions, the laws of accumulationof wood volume was obtained. In the context of the types of forest growing conditions and groups of ages, charac-teristics of aspen plantations according to bonitetclasses and relative completeness are given.The obtained information serves as a good information base for development of scientific and production solu-tions aimed at improving the ecological and resource potential of forests and, in particular, aspen formations of theRepublic of Tatarstan.