Forest and forest ecosystems in the structure of lands of forestry-based industrial assignment

Abstract

The purpose. To assess terms which are used in forestry and in registration of land resources, their conformity to European measurements. Methods. Analysis and comparison with European standards. Results. They studied the term “forest” using different sources of its explanation beginning from V.I. Dal’s time, state standards of USSR, Wood Code of Ukraine, EEC/FAO of the United Nations (2000). Conclusions. Necessity is proved of modernizing the specified term which should attaches it the sense of wood ecological system by its components.