Skip to main content
Log in

Health state of native spruce stands and saplings in the northern timberline forests of the pechora basin

  • Published:
Contemporary Problems of Ecology Aims and scope

Abstract

Trees in 10 types of northern timberline native spruce forests were studied for factors that determine their health state.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Northern Native Spruce Forests: Biodiversity, Structure, and Functions, Bobkova, K.S. and Galenko, E.P., Eds., Leningrad Division, St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2006 [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  2. Kryuchkov, V.V. and Syroid, N.A., Northern-Taiga Biogeocenoses under Industrial Air Pollution, in General Problems of Biogeocenology, Moscow: Izd. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1986, pp. 13–15 [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  3. Lukina, N.V. and Nikonov, V.V., The State of Spruce Biogeocenoses in the North under Industrial Pollution, Apatity: Kola Nauch. Tsentr RAN, 1993 [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  4. Tsvetkov, V.F. and Tsvetkov, I.V., Forests under Industrial Air Pollution, Arkhangel’sk: Arkhangel’skii Gos. Tekhnicheskii Univ., 2004 [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  5. Chernen’kova, T.V., Phytocenotic Studies of the Dwarf-Shrub-Green-Moss Spruce Forests near the Monchegorsk Metallurgical Works, Lesovedeniye, 1995, no. 1, pp. 57–65.

  6. Yudin, Yu. P., Dark Coniferous Forests, in Productive Forces of the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Moscow and Leningrad: Izd. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1954, vol. 3, pt. 1, pp. 42–125 [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  7. Sukachev, V.N. and Zonn, S.V., Forest Types: Inventory Guide, Moscow: Izd. Akad Nauk SSSR, 1961 [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  8. Voinov, G.S., Forest Survey Guide for the Northeast of the European USSR: Standards for the Arkhangel’sk and Vologda Oblasts and the Komi Soviet Socialist Republic, Arkhangel’sk: Arkhangel’skii Inst. Lesa i Lesnogo Khozyaistva, 1986 [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  9. OST 56-69-83 (Industry Standard 56-69-83): Sample Plots in Forest Management: Method of Establishing, Moscow: TsBNTI Gosleskhoza SSSR, 1983 [in Russian].

  10. Gusev, I.I., About the Age Structure of the Spruce Forests in the Arkhangel’sk Oblast, IVUZ Lesnoi Zhurnal, 1962, no. 2, pp. 20–27.

  11. Yaroslavtsev, S.V., Specific Traits of the Structure of the Spruce Forests of the Extreme North, IVUZ Lesnoi Zhurnal, 1992, no. 4, pp. 29–32.

  12. Manual: Methods and Criteria for Harmonized Sampling, Assessment, Monitoring and Analysis of the Effects of Air Pollution on Forest, Hamburg and Prague, 1994.

  13. Alekseev, V.A., Assessing Health state of Trees and Tree Stands, Lesovedeniye, 1989, no. 4, pp. 51–57.

  14. Alekseev, A.S., Monitoring of Forest Ecosystems, St. Petersburg: LTA, 1997 [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  15. Tsvetkov, P.A. and Kirisheva, D.A., The Effect of Recreation on Natural Regeneration of Pinus sylvestris, Khvoinyye Boreal’noi Zony, 2004, no. 2, pp. 61–65.

  16. Atlas of the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Moscow: GUGK GGK SSSR, 1964.

  17. Semenov, B.A., Tsvetkov, V.F., Chibisov, G.A., and Elizarov, F.P., Northern timberline Forests of European Russia: Nature and Forest Management, Arkhangel’sk: SevNIILKh, 1998 [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  18. Chertovskoi, V.G., Semenov, B.A., Tsvetkov, V.F., et al., Northern timberline Forests, Moscow: VO Agropromizdat, 1987 [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  19. Zaboeva, I.V., Soils and Natural Resources of the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Syktyvkar: Komi Knizhnoye Izdatel’stvo, 1975 [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  20. Elizarov, F.P., Semenov, B.A., and Chertovskoi, V.G., Natural Regeneration of Woody Species in Some Plant Communities of the Extreme North, in Forest Regeneration Problems in the European North, Arkhangel’sk: Arkhangel’skii Inst. Lesa i Lesnogo Khozyaistva, 1976, pp. 16–23 [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  21. Norin, B.N., To the Knowledge of Seed and Vegetative Regeneration of Woody Species in Forest-Tundra, in Vegetation of the Extreme North and Its Use, Moscow and Leningrad: Izd. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1958, vol. 3, pp. 154–244.

    Google Scholar 

  22. Tsvetkov, V.F., Forest Regeneration: Nature, Patterns, Evaluation, and Prediction, Arkhangel’sk: Arkhangel’skii Gos. Tekhnicheskii Univ., 2008 [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  23. Manov, A.V., Natural Regeneration in the Northern timberline Spruce Forests of the Komi Republic, Lesovedeniye, 2008, no. 4, pp. 63–76.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to K. S. Bobkova.

Additional information

Published in Russian in Sibirskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal, 2012, No. 2, pp. 205–212.

The article was translated by the authors

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Bobkova, K.S., Manov, A.V. Health state of native spruce stands and saplings in the northern timberline forests of the pechora basin. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 5, 152–158 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425512020035

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425512020035

Key words

Navigation