Landscape-Ecological Strategy for Ground Geosystem Monitoring of Forests

The ultimate objective of the research is to uncover the ecological potential of the transition to adaptive forestry based on monitoring mechanisms of forest ecosystem resistance and variability in changing climate. The problem is solved by implementing the full triad of geosystem forest monitoring “observation (state assessment)–control (forecast)–management (feedback, regulation)” on the trend of current global warming in the form of base and predictive ecological experiments, with the construction of analytical and cartographic empirical-statistical models. The research strategy is based on ideological and scientific–methodological provisions of the concept of geosystem monitoring as a landscape-ecological search system “global changes at the local level.” Spatial functional monitoring of the forests is conducted on the basis of empirically established local and regional landscape relationships, which are considered as the mechanisms of metabolic response of forest biogeosystems to climate trends, including current global warming. This is the experimental nature of the monitoring study itself. The conservation and reproduction of forest resources under changing climatic conditions at the southern boundary of temperate forest zone, where forest communities are in conditions close to critical, is one of the fundamental ecological problems. The author proposed a working algorithm for ground geosystem monitoring.