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The paper presents the results of the studying of the parameters of post-fire structure and seed-bearing capacity of tree stands, factors of surface medium (thickness of burnt duff, projective cover of herb and moss vegetation) as well as number, vitality, and age structure of self-seeded Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and accompanying small-leaved species in the Lower Selenga pine forest massif of the forest-steppe in Southwestern Transbaikalia. The seed harvests were 1.5–2 times higher than in the geographically replacing forest types in the forest-steppe of West Siberia, and vitality of the undergrowth of the pine under the canopy of fire-affected stands was extremely low. It is shown that the pine reforests successfully on the fire-sites in the zone of insemination from the forest walls and on the thin fire-sites in the cowberry-rhododendron pine forests, where it is 2–3 times more abundant than in forest-steppe of the West Siberia. The reforestation is insufficient on the fire-sites in the bearberry-lichen pine forests.
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Original Russian Text © N.S. Sannikova, S.N. Sannikov, A.P. Gritsenyuk, E.V. Egorov, I.V. Petrova, 2010, published in Sibirskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal, 2010, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 231–237.
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Sannikova, N.S., Sannikov, S.N., Gritsenyuk, A.P. et al. Ecogeographical characteristics of the seed-bearing capacity and natural regeneration of pine on the fire-sites in pine forests of Transbaikalia. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 3, 167–172 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425510020050
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