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Frost damage to the bottom of the stem at a height of 0.2 m and at the height of the position of the thermometer in the weather station (2 m) and higher in the Siberian spruce (Picea obovata Ledeb.) and Siberian larch (Larix sibirica Ledeb.) growing at the northern limits of their natural habitat were studied in order to reveal the upper threshold temperature conditions of their formation. Possible causes of differences in the distribution of frost damage in the stem of the spruce and larch are discussed.
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Original Russian Text © M.A. Gurskaya, 2014, published in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Biologicheskaya, 2014, No. 2, pp. 185–195.
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Gurskaya, M.A. Temperature conditions of the formation of frost damages in conifer trees in the high latitudes of Western Siberia. Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 41, 187–196 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359014020022
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