On the issue of the distribution of the main types of diseases in the forests of the Central federal district

Abstract

There is an acute shortage of relevant and reliable information about the state and dynamics of the country's forests. Forest plantations are actively exposed to a complex of unfavorable factors, under the influence of which they lose stability. Protection of forests from pests and forest diseases is ensured by systematic monitoring of its condition, timely identification of outbreaks of forest pests and diseases, their localization and elimination. An analysis of the sanitary state of plantings in the Central Federal District will reveal the main causes of weakening and death. The total area of forest disease foci in the constituent entities of the Central Federal District for 2022 was 134028.3 hectares. The largest share of the outbreak area falls on the Voronezh (22.0%), Tula (18.3%) and Moscow (12.1%) regions. The main plant diseases are: root sponge (33.7%), autumn honey fungus (26.3%), false aspen polypore (16.3%), false oak polypore (2.7%) and bacterial diseases of birch (2.8%). The volume of weakening and death of plantations from forest diseases indicates the imperfection of the existing forest protection system, the lack of a scientifically based system for carrying out forest management, the impossibility of carrying out preventive measures and preventing the emergence and development of disease foci over large areas.