Advancing the Theory and Methods of Geoecological Monitoring

One of the most dynamic natural processes on the planetary scale is changes in the global climate caused by the changed chemical composition of the atmosphere, with the corresponding demonstration of the greenhouse effect. Global geosystem monitoring is most up to date and actually realizable on the scale of individual ecological regions. However, natural processes and events on the regional hierarchic level are characterized by the greatest diversity and high discreteness; therefore, the regional response of global climatic changes inevitably takes the form of multiple reactions of vegetation, soils, and landscapes as a whole to background climatic signals. The regional and local levels of geoecological monitoring still have not been developed enough due to insufficiency of factual material and methodical difficulties of the transfer of hydroclimatic prognosis from global to regional and local. The strategic goal of geoecological monitoring is to reveal the ecological potential of transition to adaptive forestry based on monitoring the mechanisms of sustainability of forest ecosystems in modern global warming. Geoecological monitoring becomes an end-to-end technological technique for identifying key indices of the response of forest communities to climate signals, as well as establishing threshold values of these signals that exceed the adaptive abilities of the forest-forming species.