Landscape approach to take into account regional features organization of environmental management of the protected area

Formulation of the problem. The nature protection territories of Ukraine and Vinnytsia region in particular are experiencing the not best period of their development. This is reflected in the low indicators and the rate of development of the Nature Reserve Fund, which are lagging behind those declared in the programming documents and European norms. Substantial expansion of already existent nature protection territories can help the decision of not simple problem and before everything level of national natural park. The purpose of the article. The use of landscape analysis to form an idea of the territorial structure and physiognomic features of the landscape complexes of an economic area of a national nature park and adjacent areas to prevent the loss of their landscape and biodiversity. Research methods included field-based observations and mapping. Results. The area under study for the extension of the Karmelyukove Podillya National Park belongs to the class of plain Eastern European landscapes. The general background of the forest-steppe complexes is formed by landscapes of elevated forest plains, strongly indented by ravines and gullies, with chernozems of podzolized. This type of landscapes is a consequence of the active development of erosion-denudation processes within the most hypsometrically elevated in the studied territory of the southeastern spurs of the Podolsk hills. The forest-steppe type includes three subtypes of landscapes: broad-leaved forest, rare-forested forest steppe, and meadow-steppe. The peculiarity of the manifestation and distribution of types of landscapes is caused by the fact that the areas of their location are intersected by intrasonal anthropogenic landscape complexes, the formation of which is caused by such types of nature management as forestry and agriculture. The consequence of age-old human activity is the formation of different classes of anthropogenic landscapes of agricultural, forestry, water management nature and road. The results of the research were used to create a map of the landscapes of the prospective territory for inclusion in the Karmelyukove Podillya National Park. Apart from high-level typological units (classes and types of landscapes), it presents 33 types of tracts, which are currently the most typical landscapes of the study sites. The information presented on the map does not exhaust their entire landscape diversity and is the basis for further detailed landscape studies. The scientific novelty of the research is determined by the originality and detail of the information about the landscape structure of the national nature park, and its practical importance is determined by the possibility of using the results of landscape-cartographic analysis for the needs of optimizing the functioning of high-level nature protection institutions. Landscape justification for the expediency of including the studied area (text and map of landscapes of the «Vyshenka» tract and adjacent territory) was submitted to the Park administration for permanent use.