FOREST
Forest is a type of vegetation that forms a forest community that includes tree stands, shrubs, grasses, and mosses. Forests are a vital part of the biosphere and a source of numerous goods for industry, as well as food, herbs, and other resources. Forest captures a high morphological and biological resistance and, in the meantime, continuously changes in space and time as it interacts with and adapts to various environments and other natural components. The forest, as a dynamic self-regulating system, attempts to reach quasiequilibrium by exchanging energy and matter with the forest environment. This process has developed over a long-term mechanism of natural evolution, which is common for all components of the biogeocenose. Forest plays an important role in the regulation of water and thermal regimes. It is also an active translocater and redistributor of substances between components of the forest ecosystem, compartments of the forest landscapes, soil formation, etc. More details…

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General Characteristics
Forest & Open Woodlands
Forest State Account

Natural Hazards
  Brown-tail Moth
  Green Oak-roller Moth
  Nun Moth (Dendrolimus)