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Phytomass and Organic Carbon Stocks in the Middle Taiga Spruce Forests during Restoration after Clear Cutting

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Data characterizing forest restoration in Middle Taiga spruce forests after clear cutting are analyzed. Data on the biodiversity and carbon stocks in the phytomass and coarse woody debris were presented for a virgin spruce forest, the cutting area of a spruce forest, and a ripening birch forest that appeared after clear cutting of a spruce forest. The carbon stocks in the phytomass of the virgin spruce forest are 99.01 t/ha, in the cutting area of the spruce forest, they are 18.28 t/ha, and in the birch forest, 56.48 t/ha. The share in the total carbon stock of the stand, understory, undergrowth, ground cover plants, and coarse woody debris was calculated.

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This work was conducted under the research topics “Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Structure and Productivity of Plant Communities of Forest and Wetland Ecosystems in the Northeastern European Russia” (state accounting no. NIOKTR AAAA-A17-117122090014-8), with partial financial support by the project of the complex program of the Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (project no. 18-4-4-29 “Zonal Patterns of the Carbon Budget in a Deciduous–Conifer Ecosystems of the European Northeast”), and a grant of the President of Russian Federation for young doctors of philosophy, project no. MK-6670.2016.5.

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    A. F. Osipov, V. V. Tuzhilkina, A. A. Dymov & K. S. Bobkova

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Osipov, A.F., Tuzhilkina, V.V., Dymov, A.A. et al. Phytomass and Organic Carbon Stocks in the Middle Taiga Spruce Forests during Restoration after Clear Cutting. Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 46, 210–218 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359019020109

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