Editors:
- A unique opportunity to learn in detail about the European Russian forests in English
- Special sections per climatic forest region on features of the historical land-use with unique photos
- Includes about 100 color photos of vegetation and soil in European Russian forests with mosaics of gaps, fallen trees, pits and mounds caused by treefalls with uprooting
Part of the book series: Plant and Vegetation (PAVE, volume 15)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The European Russian forests are described within the boreal, hemiboreal and nemoral forest regions; floodplain forests are also characterized. The book presents a classification and description of forest vegetation, soil characteristic and assessments of plant diversity and successional status of forest plant communities. Structure and composition of vegetation in early- and late-successional forests are analyzed with an emphasis on forests in State Nature reserves. Features of the historical land-use, such as slash-and-burn, forest cutting, grazing, influence of fires on forest ecosystems, etc. are discussed for each forest region. The book contains an analysis of the general dynamics of the forest cover during the last two decades based on satellite image processing. The main stages of transformation of forest landscapes in European Russia during the Holocene are briefly reviewed in connection with the development of the production economy of people.
Editors and Affiliations
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Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Olga V. Smirnova
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Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia
Maxim V. Bobrovsky
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Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology RAS - Branch of the M.V. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia
Larisa G. Khanina
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: European Russian Forests
Book Subtitle: Their Current State and Features of Their History
Editors: Olga V. Smirnova, Maxim V. Bobrovsky, Larisa G. Khanina
Series Title: Plant and Vegetation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1172-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1171-3Published: 30 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1635-0Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-1172-0Published: 23 March 2018
Series ISSN: 1875-1318
Series E-ISSN: 1875-1326
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 564
Number of Illustrations: 80 b/w illustrations, 119 illustrations in colour
Topics: Forestry