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270 Чернобай Ю.М.

Chernobay Yu.M.
Paradigms and reference concepts of the steppe forestry (to the 120th anniversary of prof. О.L. Belgard)
It has been 120 years since the birth of О.L. Belgard (1902-1992), an outstanding Ukrainian
scientist in the field of steppe forestry, forest typology, biogeocenology. He became the author of a
number of concepts and paradigms of intrazonal forestry, based on the empirical experience of such
figures of natural science as V.E. von Graff, V.V. Dokuchaev, J.K. Paczoski, H.M. Vysotskiy, V.M.
Sukachev. For theoretical searches of the head scientist, the motivation was always practical tasks of
forest melioration, forest typology, ecology of fragmented and island forest habitats, protection of
species and landscapes diversity of steppe territories. With this approach, the evolution of his
methodology took place in the direction of co-evolutionary categories. Therefore, in his programs of
stationary and monitoring studies, the transition from prognostic linear estimates to ecological
modeling began to take shape. The scientific heritage created by the scientist was successfully
developed thanks to the efforts of the Dnipro ecological school (A.P. Travleev, V.N. Zverkovsky, O.E.
Pakhomov, A.V. Zhukov, V.A. Horban, Tsvetkova N.M., Mytsyk L.P.) and close cooperation with the
Lviv ecological school (Malinovsky K.A., Golubets M.A., Stoyko S.M., Tsaryk Y.V., Chernobay Y.N.,
Parpan V.I., Kozlovskyi M.M., Klymyshyn O.S., Zhilyaev G.G., Tretyak P.R., Kiyak V.G., Kobiv Yu.Y.).
Through a wide range of ecological and social analysis of such an object as steppe forests, the main
methodological idea of the author is quite clearly highlighted - the idea of a holistic approach to this
natural phenomenon. An ecomorphic analysis based on these principles reveals the ecological and
biological properties of plants, illuminates the complex relationships between these organisms and the
environmental factors against which they exist, and is therefore an integral part of complex ecological
studies of both individual groups and supracenotic flora - individual landscapes , natural complexes,
geographical territories, protected objects. The most important consequence of the formed paradigm
of steppe forestry was its undeniable integration into the practice of steppe forest restoration,
preservation of unique soils and specific forest habitats of the Steppe. The evolution of the theory of
forestry in Ukraine was enriched by additional aspects of taxonomy and typology of settlements of the
island structure. The work of a scientist deserves not only regional mnemonic preservation, but rather
active perception, creative development and active innovative implementation.
Key words: steppe forestry, intrazonal forests, typology of anthropized geosystems, stationary and
remote studies, ecological schools.