عنوان

European Russian forests :

(Number (ISBN

9402411720

(Number (ISBN

9789402411720

Erroneous ISBN

9402411712

Erroneous ISBN

9789402411713

Title Proper

European Russian forests :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

their current state and features of their history /

First Statement of Responsibility

Olga V. Smirnova, Maxim V. Bobrovsky, Larisa G. Khanina, editors.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht, Netherlands :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xiv, 564 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations (some color)

Series Title

Plant and vegetation,

Volume Designation

volume 15

ISSN of Series

1875-1318 ;

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Text of Note

Preface -- Authors and Affiliations -- Part 1: Natural conditions and general descriptions of forest vegetation and forest soils -- Part 2: Methods -- Part 3: Boreal forests -- Part 4: Hemiboreal forests -- Part 5: Nemoral forests -- Part 6: Floodplains -- Part 7: Forest cover dynamics at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries -- Part 8: Development of the European Russian forests in the Holocene.

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Text of Note

The book describes the European Russian forests located in the Russian Plain and surrounding areas covering Eastern Karelia, the Kola Peninsula, the Northern, Central and Southern Russian provinces together with the Western Slope of the Ural Mountains. These forests comprise half of the total forested area in Europe and differ from the latter in their naturalness and the absence of intensive forest management in most of the area. The book describes the forests of the boreal, hemiboreal and nemoral forest regions; floodplain forests are also characterized according to their climatic regions. 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 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 is based on long-term investigations of the vegetation and soil, identifying and analysing forest tracts least disturbed by man, and on studying forest history at local and regional scales. Successional series of plant communities formed after typical anthropogenic impacts have been identified and a hypothesis on the potential forest landscapes and the main causes of their transformations is presented. The book contains an analysis of the general dynamics of the forest cover in European Russia during the last two decades based on satellite image processing. The history of forest landscapes in European Russia is briefly reviewed and it is shown that the main stages of transformation of the European Russian forests in the Holocene were related to the development of the production economy of people.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

Springer Nature

Stock Number

com.springer.onix.9789402411720

International Standard Book Number

9789402411713

Forests and forestry-- Russia (Federation)

Forests and forestry-- Russia (Federation)-- History.

Forests and forestry.

GARDENING-- Fruit.

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING-- Agriculture-- General.

Russia (Federation)

7

GAR-- 005000

TEC-- 003000

TVR

Number

Edition

Class number

Bobrovsky, Maxim V.

Khanina, Larisa G.

Smirnova, Olga V.

Date of Transaction

20200823215317.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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