NATURAL PLANT COLONIZATION OF LEVELLED SPOIL BANKS OF QUARTERNARY DEPOSITS IN THE FOREST-STEPPE ZONE OF THE KUZNETSK BASIN (SOUTH OF WEST SIBERIA)
As a result of 15-year observations, the structure and dynamics of natural regenerated phytocoenoses on the levelled spoil banks consisted of Quarternary deposits have been studied in the forest-steppe zone of the Kuznetsk Basin. Restorative succession proceeds by a zonal type, its rate is not high. Lack of plant germs is an inhibitory factor. Regeneration of plant cover is possible without expensive recultivation, given spoil banks occupy a small area and are surrounded by natural phytocoenoses or agrophytocoenoses.