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Fig. 1: Distribution map of European beech and other species in Ukraine
Source: developed by Ukrainian Research Institute of Forestry and Forest Melioration named after G. N. Vysotsky (URIFFM)
in the Mogyliv-Podilskyy region of the Vinnytsya area (Bilous 1962b, Zaveruha, Ivchenko 1986),
close to the town of Murovani Kurylivtsi and the villages Berezove in the Murovane-Kyrylivetskyy
region of the Vinnytsya area (Melnyk, Korinko 2005, Zaveruha, Ivchenko 1986).
Beyond the north-east border of the distribution range in the vicinity of Cherkassy, Zhytomyr,
Vinnytsya or Kyiv, European beech is partly present in artificially established stands, and despite
a dry continental climate, it grows rather well (Bilous 1962a, c, 1995).
In the Ukraine, the largest beech forest massifs are situated on the southwestern side of the Carpathian
mountains, within an altitudinal span of 500 to 1,200 m, characterized by sufficient precipitations
( 00 to 1,200 mm per year), high air humidity, and mild temperature without major fluctuations in
the winter (Shelyag-Sosonko, Andriyenko 1985). Pure beech forests occur in the altitudinal belt
between 600 and 800 (900) m a. s. l. This is the ecologically optimal altitudinal range, where beech
almost completely out-competes all other species (Molotkov 1966).
In the Carpathians European beech plays an essential role in forming tree stands up to 1,300 to
1,350 m, and solitary beech trees reach elevations up to 1,400 – 1,450 m, for example at the mountain
Goverla (Molotkov 1966).
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