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Fire is the dominant form of disturbance in boreal forests (Wein and MacLean 1983; Van Cleve et al. 1986; Payette 1992; Rees and Juday 2002). In the Siberian cryolithic zone, ground fires are predominant among the disturbance factors; about 1.5% of the total forested area is damaged annually by wild fires (Sofronov et al. 1998). Fire frequency of northern taiga forests varies between once every 20-200 years, with a mean frequency at about once every 80 years (Sofronov and Volokitina 1996; Abaimov et al. 2000). Understanding patterns of development in forest associations is important, because the fires not only transform forest environment such as microclimate condition, temperature and moisture of upper soil layers, and chemical properties of the soils, but also change cycling of mineral nutrients, soil respiration rate, species composition and other biological characteristics of the ecosystem (Schulze et al. 1995; Abaimov et al. 1996, 1997b, 1998; Matsuura and Abaimov 1998; Bourgeau-Chavez et al. 2000; Prokushkin et al. 2000; Shvidenko and Nilsson 2000; Zyryanova et al. 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007). Under extreme climatic conditions, fires can dramatically change directions of development in forest formation and the rate of progressive succession (Abaimov et al. 2000; Abaimov 2005).
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Zyryanova, O.A., Abaimov, A.P., Bugaenko, T.N., Bugaenko, N.N. (2010). Recovery of Forest Vegetation After Fire Disturbance. 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_5
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