DEVELOPMENT OF PRIMARY LISTS OF WOOD PLANTS FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE CONDITIONS OF NORTH KAZAKHSTAN

Abstract

Nowadays, in North Kazakhstan and in whole steppe ecosystems of the Republic there have been noresearch institutions developing theoretical and applied issues of introduction and green building in the region, firstof all, target institutions for the conservation and sustainable use of the flora of the region.To solve these problems, a state botanical garden was created in the city of Nur-Sultan. During the formation ofthe botanical garden, the primary task was to develop primary lists of woody plants for introduction tests, which willcreate a plan of dendrological expositions representing various types of communities and geographical regions, aswell as to recommend an assortment of woody plants for landscaping the capital of our country and the region inoverall.The system-arealogical approach and the interpolation forecasting were used to develop promising lists ofwoody plants. Introduction procedures were carried out according to traditional techniques. As a result of the research, a perspective list of woody plants of Kazakhstan’s Red Book was developed for introduction tests, numbering19 species, including 10 species attracted from East Kazakhstan and 4 species from the southeast of the country.The analysis allows us to state that the communities of Boreal (Northern) Kazakhstan - birch, aspen, pine pegs,steppe vegetation, and partially forest ecosystems of Altai - will be potentially viable in the open ground of thebotanical garden. According to this, the natural vegetation of Kazakhstan can be represented in the Nur-Sultan Botanical Garden with the following expositions: «Dubnyakswith a birch of Western Kazakhstan», «Woody plants of theKazakhstan’s Altai», «Kolka of Kazakhstan».Based on the system-arealogical approach to introduce forecasting cold tolerance of woody plants forintroduction tests in the capital, 345 species of Eurasian woody plants from 25 genera are recommended and dividedinto three groups of introduction prospects: A - compliance with the conditions of the Nur-Sultan natural range of thespecies; B - compliance with the conditions of the city of Nur-Sultan of the species introduction range; B - potentialcompliance of the species with the conditions of the city of Nur-Sultan by the mechanism of its resettlement. Theintroduction of plants from each of these groups will require specific approaches to mobilize plant reproductionmaterial.The Botanical garden created in the city of Nur-Sultan will represent a man-made specially protected naturalarea, for the creation of which should be taken into account “pros and cons” of its location.