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Climate-Induced Gradients of Populus sp. Forest Biomass on the Territory of Eurasia
- Source :
- Aspen Bibliography, Journal of Ecological Engineering, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 218-224 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Wydawnictwo Naukowe Gabriel Borowski (WNGB), 2018.
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Abstract
- On the basis of the compiled database in a number of 413 sample plots with determinations of forest biomass of the genus Populus sp. on the territory of Eurasia from France to southern China and Japan statistically significant transcontinental decreasing of stem, above ground and total biomass as in the direction from northern temperate to subequatorial zonal belt and in the direction from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to the continentality pole in Siberia is established. Unlike wood story, understory biomass in these directions has not decreased, and increasing. The root: shoot ratio increases in the range between northern temperate and subequatorial zonal belts from 15 to 32% and within the southern temperate zone it monotonically increases from 5% on the oceanic coasts to 40% near continentality pole. The ratio of understory to wood story biomass increases from 0.3 to 1.6% ranging from northern temperate to subequatorial zonal belt, and within the south temperate zone it monotonically increases from zero values near Atlantic and Pacificcoasts, approaching the level of 40% near the continentality pole. The results can be useful in the management of biosphere functions of forests, what is important when implementing activities on climate stabilization, as well as in the validation of the results of the simulations for assessing the carbon-depositing forest capacity.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Phytogeography
climate continentality index
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
lcsh:TD1-1066
Botany
natural zones
lcsh:Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Forest Sciences
lcsh:Environmental sciences
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
General Environmental Science
lcsh:GE1-350
Biomass (ecology)
biomass
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
phytogeography
Plant Sciences
Populus sp
Agriculture
Genetics and Genomics
Understory
woody story
Geography
understory
Shoot
genus Populus sp
Woody plant
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 22998993
- Volume :
- 19
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Ecological Engineering
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b1b4ed6eca3b0d107761b037bbf7e367