Factors promoting larch dominance in central Siberia: fire versus growth performance and implications for carbon dynamics at the boundary of evergreen and deciduous conifers

• Published in: Biogeosciences
• Main Authors: Schulze, E.-D., Wirth, C., Mollicone, D., Lüpke, N., Ziegler, W., Achard, F., Mund, M., Prokushkin, A., Scherbina, S.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Tunguska; taiga; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-1405-2012; https://www.biogeosciences.net/9/1405/2012/

The relative role of fire and of climate in determining canopy species composition and aboveground carbon stocks were investigated. Measurements were made along a transect extending from the dark taiga zone of central Siberia, where Picea and Abies dominate the canopy, into the Larix zone of eastern...