| Individual characteristics | Indicators | Degree of anthropogenic impacts | |
| Control | Experiment | ||
| I Vital states | |||
| 1. Vitality of dominants | high | high | absent |
| high | middle | minimal | |
| high/middle | low | minimal | |
| middle | middle | absent | |
| low | low | absent | |
| 2. Vitality of rare and endangered species, endemics | high | middle/low | maximum |
| middle | low | maximum | |
| in other cases, there is no effect | |||
| II State of the herbage | |||
| 3. Projective cover | Kn (%) | 1.5 ˂ Kn (%) | middle/low |
| 2 - 3 ˂ Kn (%) | maximum | ||
| in other cases, there is no effect | |||
| 4. Species diversity of communities | Ks = ni | 1.5 ˂ Ks = ni | middle/low |
| 2 - 3 ˂ Ks= ni | maximum | ||
| III Biomass states | |||
| 5. The mass of annual shoots (together with all vegetative and generative organs) | К = ns∙ms (gram) | 1.5 ˂ Кn∙m | middle/low |
| 2 - 3 ˂ Кn∙m | maximum | ||