Effects of fire on the vegetation of Siberian taiga predominated by Larix dahurica
In the summer of 1988, a vegetation survey of the Siberian taiga was conducted in a discontinuous permafrost zone of northern China where a destructive fire had occurred in the spring of 1987. The dominant forest cover of this area was larch, with spruce forests occurring in wet valleys and pine for...
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crcansciencepubl:10.1139/x90-071 2023-12-17T10:48:37+01:00 Effects of fire on the vegetation of Siberian taiga predominated by Larix dahurica Uemura, Shigeru Tsuda, Satoshi Hasegawa, Sakae 1990 http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/x90-071 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/x90-071 en eng Canadian Science Publishing http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/page/about/CorporateTextAndDataMining Canadian Journal of Forest Research volume 20, issue 5, page 547-553 ISSN 0045-5067 1208-6037 Ecology Forestry Global and Planetary Change journal-article 1990 crcansciencepubl https://doi.org/10.1139/x90-071 2023-11-19T13:39:22Z In the summer of 1988, a vegetation survey of the Siberian taiga was conducted in a discontinuous permafrost zone of northern China where a destructive fire had occurred in the spring of 1987. The dominant forest cover of this area was larch, with spruce forests occurring in wet valleys and pine forests on steep, dry slopes. The vertical structure of forests showed that the spruce forests were preceded by larch forests; however, most of the larch forests were self-renewable probably because their habitats were too dry for spruce trees to compete. In larch forests, the 1987 fire seriously damaged perennial herbs; in spruce forests, however, most of the herbaceous plants were protected by wet conditions of their habitats, except feather mosses, which could not survive in the habitat opened by fire. Many plants of the burnt habitats recovered vegetatively; in particular, the burnt stems of birch trees frequently sprouted many shoots and consequently appeared to be contributing to the rapid reestablishment of larch, which is generally preceded by birch trees in ecological succession. Pine forests were not self-renewable; however, they seemed independent of the normal course of succession by dominating dry habitats where their competitors were not successful. Article in Journal/Newspaper permafrost taiga Canadian Science Publishing (via Crossref) Canadian Journal of Forest Research 20 5 547 553 |
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In the summer of 1988, a vegetation survey of the Siberian taiga was conducted in a discontinuous permafrost zone of northern China where a destructive fire had occurred in the spring of 1987. The dominant forest cover of this area was larch, with spruce forests occurring in wet valleys and pine forests on steep, dry slopes. The vertical structure of forests showed that the spruce forests were preceded by larch forests; however, most of the larch forests were self-renewable probably because their habitats were too dry for spruce trees to compete. In larch forests, the 1987 fire seriously damaged perennial herbs; in spruce forests, however, most of the herbaceous plants were protected by wet conditions of their habitats, except feather mosses, which could not survive in the habitat opened by fire. Many plants of the burnt habitats recovered vegetatively; in particular, the burnt stems of birch trees frequently sprouted many shoots and consequently appeared to be contributing to the rapid reestablishment of larch, which is generally preceded by birch trees in ecological succession. Pine forests were not self-renewable; however, they seemed independent of the normal course of succession by dominating dry habitats where their competitors were not successful. |
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Effects of fire on the vegetation of Siberian taiga predominated by Larix dahurica |
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Effects of fire on the vegetation of Siberian taiga predominated by Larix dahurica |
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