European Russian Forests
Their Current State and Features of Their History
Editors: Smirnova, Olga V., Bobrovsky, Maxim V., Khanina, Larisa G. (Eds.)
- 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
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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.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Natural Conditions and General Descriptions of Forest Vegetation and Forest Soils
Pages 1-32
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Methods of Investigation
Pages 33-57
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Boreal Forests
Pages 59-203
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Hemiboreal Forests
Pages 205-332
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Nemoral Forests
Pages 333-476
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- European Russian Forests
- Book Subtitle
- Their Current State and Features of Their History
- Editors
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- Olga V. Smirnova
- Maxim V. Bobrovsky
- Larisa G. Khanina
- Series Title
- Plant and Vegetation
- Series Volume
- 15
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-024-1172-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-024-1172-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-024-1171-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-024-1635-0
- Series ISSN
- 1875-1318
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 564
- Number of Illustrations
- 80 b/w illustrations, 119 illustrations in colour
- Topics
