Conditions and prospects for post-fire green-moss Siberian stone pine forest formation at young stage

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A comparative quantitative analysis of the natural regeneration of Siberian stone pine (Pinus sibirica Du Tour.) and the conditions for the formation of forests with its predominance on two test plots in burned areas of the green-moss forest type in the northern foothill-low mountain part of the Middle Urals is presented. It was found that in both test plots the amount of Siberian stone pine undergrowth ranges from 0,3 to 2,9 thousand ind./ha and, unlike anemochorous woody plants, does not depend on the distance up to 375 m from the peripheral tree stand (forest wall). Moreover, it positively correlated with changes in moss cover and negatively correlated with tall herbaceous cover and post-fire woody debris. On the test plot No. 1 (TP1), the abundant birch undergrowth (12,2...17,5 thousand ind./ha) of vegetative origin, 3 m high, is relatively evenly distributed throughout the burned area. Under its canopy, at a distance of up to 200 m from the forest wall, the number of spruce undergrowth (4,2 thousand ind./ha) is 4 times higher than that of Siberian stone pine (1,0 thousand ind./ha). At a distance of 200 m to 375 m from the forest wall, its quantity (0,7 thousand ind./ha) is 1,5–2 times lower than that of Siberian stone pine (1,2 thousand ind./ha). In test plot No. 2 (TP2), birch undergrowth (2,1 thousand ind./ha) of seed origin is distributed not further than 100 m from the forest wall. In this area, the number of spruce undergrowth (1,5 thousand ind./ha) is 3 times higher than that of Siberian stone pine (0,5 thousand ind./ha). On the other hand, at a distance of more than 100 m from the forest wall, its number (0,6 thousand ind//ha) is 3 times less than that of Siberian stone pine (1,7 thousand ind./ha). Rowan and willow bushes (1,8 thousand ind./ha) with a height of 3–4 m play the role of small-leaved canopy. Thus, with increasing distance from the periphery to the central part of the burned area, the quantitative ratio of undergrowth changes in favor of Siberian stone pine. It is planned to develop spruce forests with Siberian stone pine under the canopy of emerging birch forests at a distance of up to 200 m in TP1 and up to 100 m in TP2 from the peripheral seeding stands. In TP1, the development of the Siberian stone pine forest will take place classically under the canopy of a birch forest through a long-derived soft-leaved formation at a distance of over 200 m from the periphery. In TP2, at a distance of more than 100 m from the periphery, the pine forest is formed by a short-term shrub stage without the participation of small-leaved trees already in the young growth stage.

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Nikolay V. Tantsyrev

Botanical Garden of the Ural Branch of the RAS

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