Density of Tree Wood and Bark in Climatic Gradients of Eurasia

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Under the conditions of climate changing, the biospheric role of forest cover is increasing, as well as the relevance of research on the carbon depositing capacity of the world’s forests. These studies include an assessment of the trees’ and stands’ biological productivity, which includes not only phytomass, but also the basic density (BD) of stem wood and bark. In our study, allometric models of the BD of wood and bark of 9 forest-forming tree species of Northern Eurasia have been developed, including such independent variables as the tree age, the stem diameter, as well as the average temperature of January and average annual precipitation. The structure of a mixed-effects model is applied, in which the affiliation of the source data to each of the tree species is encoded by a set of dummy variables. Based on the space-for-time substitution principle, the obtained patterns of BD changes in spatial climatic gradients are used to predict their changes in temporal gradients. The effect of Liebig’s law of limiting factor in predicting BD in spatial and temporal climatic gradients has been confirmed. The revealed patterns of changes in the BD of wood and bark in temperature and precipitation gradients completely repeat the previously established patterns of changes in phytomass and net primary production of trees and stands of Eurasia in the same gradients. This means that the climatic conditionality of the studied indicators of biological productivity has a common nature for both quantitative and qualitative indicators of trees and stands.

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V. А. Usoltsev

Botanical Garden, Ural Branch of the RAS; Ural State Forest Engineering University

Author for correspondence.
Email: Usoltsev50@mail.ru
Russia, 620144, Yekaterinburg, 8 Marta st. 202а; Russia, 620100, Yekaterinburg, Sibirsky tract, 37

I. S. Tsepordey

Botanical Garden, Ural Branch of the RAS

Email: Usoltsev50@mail.ru
Russia, 620144, Yekaterinburg, 8 Marta st. 202а

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