Lesnye soobshchestva gornykh territoriy - garant ustoychivogo razvitiya bol"shikh territoriy predgornykh rayonov. Les formiruet blagopriyatnyy klimat, sokhranyaet privlekatel"nost" gornykh landshaftov, ikh ozdorovitel"nye funktsii. Mozaika raspredeleniya razlichnykh tipov lesa opredelyaetsya kompleksom ekologicheskikh faktorov. V pervuyu ochered" vysotoy nad urovnem morya, ekspozitsiey i krutiznoy sklonov. Strukturu i produktivnost" lesnykh soobshchestv formiruyut geoekologicheskie nishi sil"no differentsirovannye v gorakh. V ogromnom raznoobrazii ekologicheskikh nish vyyavlyayutsya optimal"nye usloviya proizrastaniya opredelennykh lesnykh soobshchestv imeyushchikh tselevoe khozyaystvennoe prednaznachenie. Fenologicheskaya izolyatsiya i geneticheskaya differentsiatsiya Pinus silvestris svidetel"stvuyut o sravnitel"no molodom evolyutsionnom razvitii vida na Severo-Kavkazskom regione. Ispol"zovanie metodologii informatsionnogo analiza pozvolyaet vyyavit" granitsy ustoychivosti lesnykh soobshchestv s dominirovaniem opredelennykh vidov. Rabotnikam lesa.