Research by Siberian Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry SB RAS in the field of biodiversity and forest ecology
V.I. VORONIN, A.V. VERKHOZINA, T.A. MIKHALOVA, T.I. MOROZOVA, V.A. OSKOLKOV, A.P. SIZYKH, D.A. KRIVENKO, S.G. KAZANOVSKII, A.V. RUDIKOVSKII, O.V. KALUGINA, I.N. EGOROVA, O.V. SHERGINA, O.A. CHERNYSHEVA, I.A. ANTONOV
Siberian Institute of Plant Physiology and Biоchemistry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia
Keywords: Baikalian Siberia, biodiversity, paragenesis, anthropogenic factors, forest fires, forest diseases
Abstract
This article summarizes the results of long-term integrated research performed by SIPPВ of SB RAS studying composition, structure and dynamics of biodiversity in Siberia and adjacent regions at the level of populations, species, biocoenoses, and ecosystems and revealing of responses of organisms and their coenoses to changes in environmental conditions caused by natural and anthropogenic factors. The sequestration of carbon dioxide by conifer forests growing on the territory of Baikal Natural Region was estimated. Forest fires in Transbaikalia were reconstructed on the basis of tree-ring chronology with an annual resolution of 351 years. The concept of paragenesis was justified as it characterizes the formation of phytocoenoses which by their structural-dynamic organization are not related to a zonal type (or altitudinal belt) of vegetation. The data obtained can serve as an information base while determining basic vectors of regional ecological policy, and they are important for the assessment of the present state of biodiversity in Baikalian Siberia and its changes under the conditions of anthropogenic factor press as well as for development of measures for its protection.
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