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Natural Conditions and General Descriptions of Forest Vegetation and Forest Soils

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European Russian Forests

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This chapter contains descriptions of topography and hydrography of the Russian Plain and surrounding areas including Eastern Karelia, the Kola Peninsula and the Northern, the Central and the Southern Russian provinces together with the western slope of the Ural Mountains. The main climatic parameters distributed over the study area and average changes in climate during the last century are also discussed. Forest vegetation and forest soils are surveyed for the boreal, the hemiboreal and the nemoral forest regions.

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  1. Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    O. V. Smirnova, N. V. Zukert & L. B. Zaugolnova

  2. Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow region, Russia

    M. V. Bobrovsky & S. S. Bykhovets

  3. Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology RAS – Branch of the M.V. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow region, Russia

    L. G. Khanina

  4. Faculty of Geography, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    I. S. Voskresensky

  5. Department of Geographical Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

    S. A. Turubanova

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Smirnova, O.V. et al. (2017). Natural Conditions and General Descriptions of Forest Vegetation and Forest Soils. In: Smirnova, O., Bobrovsky, M., Khanina, L. (eds) European Russian Forests. Plant and Vegetation, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1172-0_1

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