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Composition and structure of spruce forests of the southwestern part of Moscow region

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Coenotic features of boreal, nemoral, and subnemoral spruce stands of the southwestern part of Moscow region have been studied using ground-based and remote sensing data. Despite significant modifications of the vegetation cover in the region due to human impacts, the species composition of the spruce communities still retains typical zonal features of the regional vegetation and is associated with certain landscape elements. Cartographic modeling has allowed us to identify the spatial distribution patterns for various spruce forest types and produce a series of geobotanical maps (scale 1: 100000). The ecophytocoenotic approach was used for classifying the forest vegetation. An analysis of the spatial differentiation of the forest cover—using spruce forests with different species composition as an example—has confirmed the ecotonal structure of the study area demonstrated through a characteristic latitudinal distribution of geoecolological spectra of species.

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  1. Center of Forest Ecology and Productivity, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117997, Russia

    T. V. Chernen’kova, S. Yu. Popov & N. G. Belyaeva

  2. Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119017, Russia

    O. V. Morozova & M. Yu. Puzachenko

  3. Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    S. Yu. Popov

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Original Russian Text © T.V. Chernen’kova, O.V. Morozova, M.Yu. Puzachenko, S.Yu. Popov, N.G. Belyaeva, 2015, published in Lesovedenie, 2015, No. 5, pp. 323–338.

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Chernen’kova, T.V., Morozova, O.V., Puzachenko, M.Y. et al. Composition and structure of spruce forests of the southwestern part of Moscow region. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 9, 820–833 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425516070039

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