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Relationships between stem diameter and phytomass of trees and their parts (single- and multistemmed growth forms) have been studied at different altitudinal levels of the present-day upper treeline ecotone on the Iremel’ Massif, the Southern Urals. The time course of changes in the structure and phytomass of birch–spruce stands during the past centuries has been reconstructed. It is shown that the expansion of forests to the mountains in this period has occurred against the background of rise in summer and winter temperatures and increase in the amount of solid precipitation in the Southern Urals.
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Original Russian Text © P.A. Moiseev, M.O. Bubnov, N.M. Devi, Z.Ya. Nagimov, 2016, published in Ekologiya, 2016, No. 3, pp. 163–172.
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Moiseev, P.A., Bubnov, M.O., Devi, N.M. et al. Changes in the structure and phytomass of tree stands at the upper limit of their growth in the Southern Urals. Russ J Ecol 47, 219–227 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413616030085
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