Stock of standing dead trees in boreal forests of Central Siberia

Mukhortova, L.V., Krivobokov, L.V., Shchepashchenko, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-4990, Knorre, A.A., & Sobachkin, D.S. (2021). Stock of standing dead trees in boreal forests of Central Siberia. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 875 (1) e012059. 10.1088/1755-1315/875/1/012059.

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Abstract

A significant part of carbon assimilated by forest is deposited in tree trunks. Growth and development of tree stands is accompanied by accumulation of standing dead trees (snags) due to natural tree mortality and as a result of the impact of exogenous factors. Carbon accumulated in these dead trunks is excluded from the fast turnover due to low rate of wood decomposition, so that snags can be considered as a pool of organic carbon with a slow rate of its return to the atmosphere. We estimated stock of snags on 54 sample plots, which represent the main types of forest ecosystems in the northern and middle taiga of Central Siberia. In the middle taiga, stock of snags varied from up to 7 m3 ha-1 in Siberian spruce forests to 20-42 m3 ha-1 in Scots pine forests. Larch forests in the northern taiga had the similar stock of snags as larch forests in the middle taiga despite significantly higher growing stock in the later. Snags contributed from 4 to 19% to the total stock of woody biomass in studied forests. This study indicated the significance of snags and can be used to estimate carbon budget of forest ecosystems of the region.

Item Type: Article
Research Programs: Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR)
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) > Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE)
Depositing User: Luke Kirwan
Date Deposited: 24 Nov 2021 15:46
Last Modified: 24 Nov 2021 15:46
URI: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/17655

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