Late Glacial and Holocene environmental history on the eastern slope of the Middle Ural mountains, Russia

Панова, Н. К.; Антипина, Т. Г.

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.10.035

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“…In these regions, boreal biomes are largely dominated by Picea , Pinus , Betula and Populus species (Goldammer, 2015) and fire activity is generally associated with crown fires. In the Urals region of Russia, the links between fire, climate and vegetation during the Holocene have not been investigated, as studies have mainly focused on climate and vegetation dynamics (Antipina, Panova, & Korona, 2014; Panova & Antipina, 2016). West of the Ural mountains, in the Republic of Komi, two studies have documented past vegetation and climate dynamics based on pollen analysis of several sites (Baika, Kalya, Cherny Yar and Syndorsky, Figure 1) during the Holocene (Golubeva, 2008; Sidorchuk, Borisova, & Panin, 2001).…”

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Did long‐term fire control the coniferous boreal forest composition of the northern Ural region (Komi Republic, Russia)?

Barhoumi

Ali

Peyron

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Journal of Biogeography

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Did long‐term fire control the coniferous boreal forest composition of the northern Ural region (Komi Republic, Russia)?

Barhoumi

Ali

Peyron

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Journal of Biogeography

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“…The problems of biodiversity (Mirkin et al, 2014;Sannikov et al, 2017;Ivanova, 2019) and forest productivity (Usoltsev et al, 2011(Usoltsev et al, , 2019Schepaschenko et al, 2017), ecology of individual species of woody plants ( Kalashnikova & Makhnev, 2013;Maiti et al, 2016;Sannikov et al, 2018), history of vegetation development (Panova & Antipina, 2016), reforestation and stand formation (Tantsyrev & Sannikov, 2008;Menshchikov et al, 2013;Fomin et al, 2015;Zalesova et al, 2019) have been actively discussed in the literature for the Ural Mountains, but our study on the adaptation of forest ecosystem vegetation to different moisture regimes is one of the first for taiga mountain forests in Russia. It has estimated the stability and trends of changing species composition and productivity when changing the moisture regime.…”

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Influence of soil moisture regime on the species diversity and biomass of the herb layer of pine forests in the Ural Mountains

Ivanova

Zolotova

2020

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Adaptation of plant communities is an important factor for maintaining their functioning and stability in changing conditions. The aim of our research is study of the effect of soil moisture regime on the species richness and biomass of the herb layer for old-growth coniferous forests in the Ural Mountains (Russia). The research has been carried out between 57° 00'N; 60° 15''E and 57° 05'N; 60° 25'E. The studied area is part of the Zauralsky hilly piedmont province, the Southern boreal forest region. Sample plots (0.25 hectares) were laid in pine forests growing in habitats with different moisture regimes: insufficient, optimal (stable), and excessive. The research was conducted in 2010. To determine the herb layer productivity, 10-20 subplots 1x1 m in size were laid on each sample plot. Data analysis is based on the One-way ANOVA and species abundance distributions. It has been established that species richness in extreme (insufficient and excessive soil moisture regime (Cowberry pine forest and Pine forest with shrubs and sphagnum) and optimal (stable) soil moisture regime (Multi-herb pine forest) were found to vary significantly, with soil moisture regime being a statistically significant factor. By contrast, herb layer biomass is maintained fairly stable regardless of the soil moisture regimes. ANOVA showed no significant differences between pine forests growing under different soil moisture regimes. It has been found that biomass is maintained by increasing of the dominant species contribution to the overall biomass and increasing of the approximation function graph slope. At the same time, the parameter β of exponential and power approximating functions is increased and can be considered as an indicator of influencing on forest ecosystems and a measure of their adaptation to insufficient and excessive soil moisture. Thus, species abundance distributions can be used as method to measure the effects of factors that determine forest ecosystem composition and functioning.

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“…Regular but rare presence of Abies in the northern and southern pollen records may be explained by long-distance transport. On the eastern slope of the middle Urals, Abies pollen increases (Panova & Antipina 2016) or appears (Maslennikova et al 2016) in southern pine taiga after 4.3 ka. On the western slope, Abies occurs in hemiboreal forest at~4 ka (this study), and in the middle taiga it is permanently present after 3.8 ka (Demakov et al 2016;Lapteva et al 2017;Zaretskaya et al 2020).…”

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“…Nemkova 1992;Lapteva & Korona 2012;Stobbe et al 2015). Studies in the middle Urals have been carried out mainly on the eastern slope (Blagoveshchenskiy 1940(Blagoveshchenskiy , 1943Sukachev & Poplavskaya 1946;Gorchakovskiy 1953;Maslennikova et al 2016;Panova & Antipina 2016), while the vegetation history of the western pre-Ural region is still very poorly studied. Here, studies related to peatland exploration started in the 1920s and 1930s and included pollen analysis sporadically (Gerasimov 1926;Igoshina 1927;Gerasimov 1932;Henckel & Krasovsky 1934;Henckel & Lebedeva 1940;Danilova 1948;Storozheva 1962;Henckel 1974).…”

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Postglacial history of East European boreal forests in the mid‐Kama region, pre‐Urals, Russia

Shumilovskikh

Schmidt

Pereskokov

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The Ural Mountains are an important climatic and biogeographical barrier between European and Siberian forests. In order to shed light on the postglacial formation and evolution of the boreal forests in the European pre‐Urals, we obtained a peat sediment core, Chernaya, from the Paltinskoe bog located between the southern taiga and hemiboreal forest zone in the mid‐Kama region. We carried out pollen analysis, non‐pollen palynomorph analysis, loss‐on‐ignition tests and radiocarbon dating. Radiocarbon dated records provide centennial to decennial resolution of the vegetation and environmental history of the European pre‐Urals for the last 8.8 ka. The postglacial formation of the pre‐Uralian hemiboreal forests reveals four important phases: (i) the dominance of Siberian taiga and forest‐steppe in the Early Holocene and beginning of the Middle Holocene (8.8–6.9 ka), indicating a dry climate; (ii) the spread of spruce and European broadleaved trees in the Middle Holocene (6.9–4 ka) under wetter climate conditions; (iii) the maximum extent of broadleaved trees coinciding with the arrival and spread of Siberian fir in the Late Holocene (4–2.3 ka); and (iv) the decline of broadleaved trees since the Early Iron Age (2.3 ka – present) possibly due to general climate cooling and logging. While temperate broadleaved trees possibly spread from local refugia in the Urals, fir arrived from Siberia and spread further west. The carbon accumulation rate of Paltinskoe bog (18.9±10.16 g C m−2 a−1) is close to the average value of carbon accumulation of northern peatlands. Local development of peat is characterized by non‐gradual growth with a phase of intensive carbon accumulation between 3.5 and 2.3 ka. The vegetation was strongly influenced by fire in the Early Holocene and by humans since the Early Iron Age practicing deforestation, agriculture and pasture. Phases of increased anthropogenic activity correlate well with the local archaeological data.

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Late Glacial and Holocene environmental history on the eastern slope of the Middle Ural mountains, Russia

Cited by 27 publications

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Did long‐term fire control the coniferous boreal forest composition of the northern Ural region (Komi Republic, Russia)?

Did long‐term fire control the coniferous boreal forest composition of the northern Ural region (Komi Republic, Russia)?

Influence of soil moisture regime on the species diversity and biomass of the herb layer of pine forests in the Ural Mountains

Postglacial history of East European boreal forests in the mid‐Kama region, pre‐Urals, Russia

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