Biology 4 (2015 8) 410-425 ~ ~ ~ УДК 630*181.65: 630*174.754(1-924.85) Silvicultural and Dendroclimatic Analysis of Artifi cial Pine Phytocenoses Exposed to Recreational Digression in a Suburban Area of Voronezh Sergey M. Matveev*, Alexey V. Mironenko and Darya A. Timashchuk Voronezh State Academy of Forestry Engineering 8 Timiryazeva Str., Voronezh, 394087, Russia The paper presents Received 08.07.2015, received in revised form 24.08.2015, accepted 04.10.2015 the results of silvicultural research of phytocenosis components and dendrochronologocal and dendroclimatic analyses of radial growth of pine and limiting factors in 50-70 year old stands of Scots pine in different stages of recreational digression, which grow in a suburban area of Voronezh. <...> Weighted average of the category of the state of the examined tree stands increases from I, 7 to III, 1 with increasing the stage of digression from I to IV. <...> On III-IV and IV stages of digression tree stands are classifi ed as “very weak. <...> In 2012 – 2013 years the average radial growth of trees increased in stands which are in I and II stages of digression, while in stands belong to III and IV stages it continues to decline. <...> So far, the desiccation of particular trees continues in all artifi cial pine stands regardless of the stage of digression. <...> Keywords: Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris L., recreational impact, stage of digression, the state stands, radial increment, the coeffi cient of variation, dendroclimatic analysis, precipitation, drought. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: lisovod@bk.ru # 410 # Sergey M. Matveev, Alexey V. Mironenko… Silvicultural and <...>