MAIN CRITERIA OF ECO-GEOBOTANICAL ASSESSMENT OF SOIL AND VEGETATION COVER

Abstract

Objests of research were soil and vegetation of Shirvan zone of Azerbaijan. For the first time a new methodology for eco-geobotanical assessment of the soil and vegetation cover of the territory of Shirvan was developed based on the data on bonitation and ecological assessment of soils, as well as data on the assessment of natural plant communities. The eco-geobotanical assessment of the soil-vegetation cover of Shirvan, expressed in balls, made it possible to identify at the first time eco-geobotanical groups on the territory: high productivity (100-81 balls), average productivity (80-61 balls), low productivity (60-41 balls), very low yield (40-20 balls) in the course of our research. This method can be applied to areas similar in terms of soil and vegetation cover throughout the Republic.