Ukrainian Journal of Forest and Wood Science

The impact of forestry and mensuration indices and light transmission of the windbreaks canopy on the projective ground vegetation cover are analyzed in the article. It’s found out the correlation between projective ground cover and canopy density and light transmission. These relationships are described by the equation of polynomial dependence. According to the modelling results that favorable conditions are formed by canopy density stands above 1,25 (0,9 ) and light transmission below 8 (16 )% were revealed. There are recommendations for species composition of windbreaks for the ensuring conditions of formation forest environments in the line stands.

windbreaks, ground cover, projective cover, canopy density, light transmission, modeling, reliability approximation index