CURRENT STATE OF PRODUCTIVITY OF TUGAY VEGETATION OF THE LOWER REACHES OF THE AMU DARYA UNDER CONDITIONS OF ANTHROPOGENIC DESERTIFICATION

Abstract

The article deals with the issues of productivity and current state of the main plant communities of tugay in conditions under the influence of direct and indirect anthropogenic factors, on the floodplains and deltas of the Amudarya river. The paper considers the significance of anthropogenic and natural factors affecting the processes of changing the productivity of the main plant communities of tugay of the Amudarya delta. On the basis of ecological monitoring of tugay of the Amudarya lower reaches it is possible to obtain reliable information on changes in the natural productivity of woody-shrub vegetation and to predict the main direction of successional changes.