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: E.-D. Schulze, C. Wirth, D. Mollicone, N. von Lüpke, W. Ziegler, F. Achard, M. Mund, A. Prokushkin, S. Scherbina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2012
• Subjects: Ecology; QH540-549.5; Life; QH501-531; Geology; QE1-996.5; Tunguska; taiga; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-1405-2012; https://doaj.org/article/992ec27b62ff45d0bb2d0d2d470e826b

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...