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Postfire succession in a forest of the cryolithozone: The example of central Yakutia

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The results of studies on postfire succession in larch forests of the permafrost zone are discussed. The main directions of successional processes in burned-out areas of different ages are described. It has been shown that secondary pyrogenic successions in larch forests follow the scheme of rapid regeneration without tree species replacement and the model of succession tolerance. Groups of plant species with different life strategies and indicator species characterizing different stages of the overgrowing of burned-out areas have been identified.

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  1. Institute for Biological Problems of the Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, pr. Lenina 41, 677007, Russia

    L. P. Lytkina

  2. Institute of Applied Ecology of the North, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Yakutsk, pr. Lenina 35, 677007, Russia

    S. I. Mironova

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Original Russian Text © L.P. Lytkina, S.I. Mironova, 2009, published in Ekologiya, 2009, No. 3, pp. 168–173.

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Lytkina, L.P., Mironova, S.I. Postfire succession in a forest of the cryolithozone: The example of central Yakutia. Russ J Ecol 40, 154–159 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413609030023

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