Biodiversity of forests: functional dimensions and growth determinants

It has been substantiated that the main functions of biodiversity of forests under the modern structure of the national economy and the existing natural-resource constraints are: assimilatory, stabilizationprotective, restoration-reproductive, recreational, aesthetic-cultural, resource-raw, socio-economic and inter-farm ones. It has been established that the main determinants of reproduction and preservation of exogenous forest biodiversity are as follows: implementation of the priorities of the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU in the practice of forestry management; fulfilment of commitments undertaken by Ukraine in the framework of signed resolutions of ministries and conferences on protection of forests in Europe; strengthening the sustainability of forest ecosystems as a result of the setting of permanent forest users of nature-conservation technologies in forestry; implementation of the EU’s international environmental directives on the conservation of wetlands. It has been proven that the main determinants of conservation, reproduction and multiplication of endogenous forest biodiversity are as follows: ensuring the continuous and inexhaustible management of forestry on the renaturalized drained agricultural lands; increase of the area of the lands of the natural reserve fund at the expense of agricultural land, where irreversible renaturalization processes took place; expansion of institutional forms regarding the creation of protective forest strips; application in the system of management of constant forest users of modern methodology for assessing the effectiveness of economic development of forest biodiversity.