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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Far North
    sub title: Plant Biodiversity and Ecology of Yakutia
  name:
    name part: Troeva, Elena I.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Isaev, A. P.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Cherosov, M.M.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Karpov, N. S.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 385 p. online resource.
  abstract: Outside Russia very little is known about the terrestrial ecology, vegetation, biogeographical patterns, and biodiversity of the enormously extensive ecosystems of Yakutia, Siberia. These systems are very special in that they function on top of huge layers of permafrost and are exposed to very severe and extreme weather conditions, the range between winter and summer temperatures being more than 100 degrees C. The soils are generally poor, and human use of the vegetation is usually extensive. Main vegetation zones are taiga and tundra, but Yakutia also supports a special land and vegetation form, caused by permafrost, the alas: more or less extensive grasslands around roundish lakes in taiga. All these vegetation types will be described and their ecology and ecophysiological characteristics will be dealt with. Because of the size of Yakutia, covering several climatic zones, and its extreme position on ecological gradients, Yakutia contains very interesting biogeographical patterns, which also will be described. Our analyses are drawn from many years of research in Yakutia and from a vast body of ecological and other literature in Russian publications and in unpublished local reports. The anthropogenic influence on the ecosystems will be dealt with. This includes the main activities of human interference with nature: forestry, extensive reindeer herding, cattle and horse grazing, etc. Also fire and other prominent ecological factors are dealt with. A very important point is also the very high degree of naturalness that is still extant in Yakutia’s main vegetation zones.
  table of contents: Natural Conditions -- Flora of Yakutia: Composition and Ecological Structure -- Vegetation of Yakutia: Elements of Ecology and Plant Sociology -- Vegetation and Human Activity -- Insect Impact on Vegetation -- Structural and Functional Peculiarities of the Plants of Yakutia -- Nature Conservation Status and Its Prospects.
  note: edited by Elena I. Troeva, A. P. Isaev, M.M. Cherosov, N. S. Karpov.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity
  subject:
    topic: Plant ecology
  subject:
    topic: Forestry
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Plant Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity
  subject:
    topic: Forestry
  subject:
    topic: Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
  classification: QK900-989
  classification: 581.7
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Plant and Vegetation, 3
  identifier: 9789048137749
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3774-9
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204153447.0
    record identifier: 978-90-481-3774-9