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Spatial-typological differentiation of the ecosystems of the West Siberian Plain. Communication II: Underground phytomass, dead organic matter, and soil humus

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Similarity was quantified for the ecosystems of the West Siberian Plain based on the masses of plant cover, dead organic matter, and underground organic matter (including soil humus) and the resultant matrix was subjected to cluster analysis. The results showed that the differentiation in the vegetation was nearly equally attributable to zonal gradients of thermal and moisture conditions (waterlogging), while the differentiation in the underground part of the ecosystems was predominantly under control of waterlogging. Intratypical differences in the underground part were due to zonal-subzonal heterogeneity in the gradients of thermal and moisture conditions, composition of vegetation, and flooding during snow-melt period. Such division did not entirely agree with subzonal division. The ecosystems were rather aggregated on the basis of the three abovementioned characteristics, with flooding and forest-forming species being the same.

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  1. Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Sovetskaya 18, Novosibirsk, 630099, Russia

    V. A. Khmelev & A. A. Titlyanova

  2. Central Siberian Botanical Garden, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Zolotodolinskaya 101, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    V. P. Sedel’nikov

  3. Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Frunze 11, Novosibirsk, 630091, Russia

    Yu. S. Ravkin & I. N. Bogomolova

  4. Tomsk State University, pr. Lenina 36, Tomsk, 634050, Russia

    Yu. S. Ravkin

  5. Siberian State Geodesy Academy, ul. Plakhotnogo 10, Novosibirsk, 630108, Russia

    I. P. Kokorina

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Original Russian Text © V.A. Khmelev, A.A. Titlyanova, V.P. Sedel’nikov, Yu.S. Ravkin, I.N. Bogomolova, I.P. Kokorina, 2011, published in Sibirskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal, 2011, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 325–330.

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Khmelev, V.A., Titlyanova, A.A., Sedel’nikov, V.P. et al. Spatial-typological differentiation of the ecosystems of the West Siberian Plain. Communication II: Underground phytomass, dead organic matter, and soil humus. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 4, 241–247 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425511030027

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