Soil-geobotanical profiling in studies on communities of the forest-extrazonal steppe junction and zonal forest-steppe (the Baikal Region)

Studies on the structural-dynamic organization and spatiotemporal variation of plant communities at the forest-extrazonal steppe junction and in the zonal forest-steppe have made it possible to reveal some specific features of vegetation formation in certain parts of the Baikal region. It has been shown that processes of paragenesis in the formation of plant communities are characteristic of southwestern Baikal region, while forest expansion to steppe areas is characteristic of the zonal forest-steppe of southwestern Transbaikalia.