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Biomass and Productivity of Siberian Larch Forest Ecosystems

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Permafrost Ecosystems

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 209))

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Boreal forests are expected to affect global carbon balance significantly due to their large areas (e.g., Goulden et al. 1998; Schulze et al. 1999; Chapin et al. 2000; Jarvis et al. 2001). Biomass and productivity of boreal forests have been examined mainly in the evergreen taiga established in the regions of nonpermafrost or discontinuous permafrost, e.g., interior Alaska (Van Cleve et al. 1983, 1986; Vogt et al. 1996), northern Canada (Gower et al. 2001; Bhatti et al. 2002; Bond-Lamberty et al. 2002), and northern Europe (Schulze 2000). In contrast, comparable studies are considerably limited in the boreal forests of Siberia, where three Larix species are growing separately in different locations and soils: each of two similar species, Larix gmelinii (Rupr.) Rupr. and L. cajanderi Mayr, dominates in the continuous permafrost regions in Central and Northeastern Siberia, respectively, while Larix sibirica L. grows mainly in the nonpermafrost regions of Western or Mountainous southern Siberia (Abaimov 1995; also see Chaps. 1, 3 and 4).

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  1. Department of Plant Ecology, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8687, Japan

    T. Kajimoto

  2. Division of Forest and Biomaterials Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan

    A. Osawa

  3. Botanical Garden, Ural Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Vos’mogo Marta, Yekaterinburg, 620144, Russia

    V. A. Usoltsev

  4. V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia

    A. P. Abaimov

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Kajimoto, T., Osawa, A., Usoltsev, V.A., Abaimov, A.P. (2010). Biomass and Productivity of Siberian Larch Forest Ecosystems. In: Osawa, A., Zyryanova, O., Matsuura, Y., Kajimoto, T., Wein, R. (eds) Permafrost Ecosystems. Ecological Studies, vol 209. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9693-8_6

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