Biomass of generative sphere of Scots pine and drooping birch in the pollution gradient from the Karabash copper smelter on the Ural
https://doi.org/10.21266/2079-4304.2021.234.23-52
Abstract
Forest pollution strongly affects their biological productivity, but the contribution of the generative sphere to it is rarely studied. Our study of the biomass of generative organs of trees and stands of Scots pine and drooping birch was performed during one growing season in the pollution gradient from the Karabash copper smelting plant in the southern Urals. It is stated the maximum biomass of generative organs of pine and birch at the level of both a tree and a stand, falls on the buffer part of the pollution gradient, in which the tree stand, according to the phenomenon of hysteresis, passes from one stable state to another one, and the same buffer zone accounts for the maximum variability of the biomass of generative organs. The resulting pattern, common to the two species, indicates an increased adaptive response of trees and stands to pollution in the buffer zone in terms of the mass of the generative sphere and one can suppose it reflects the well known phenomenon of hormesis in biology. This assumption requires in-depth studies of the impact of pollution on the generative sphere of forest communities.
About the Authors
V. А. Usoltsev
Ural State Forest Engineering University, chief researcher at the Botanical Garden, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
USOLTSEV Vladimir A. – DSc (Agricultural), professor of the Department of Forestry
620100. Sibirskiy Trakt 37. Yekaterinburg
I. S. Tsepordey
Botanical Garden of Ural Branch of RAS
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
TSEPORDEY Ivan S. – PhD (Agricultural), scientist
620144. 8 Marta str. 202a. Yekaterinburg
V. F. Kovyazin
St.Petersburg State Forest Technical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
KOVYAZIN Vasiliy F. – DSc (Biology), Рrofessor
194021. Institute per. 5. St. Petersburg
А. F. Urazova
Ural State Forest Engineering University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
URAZOVA Alina F. – PhD (Agricultural)
620100. Sibirskiy Trakt 37. Yekaterinburg
А. V. Bornikov
Orenburg State Agrarian University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
BORNIKOV Aleksandr V. – PhD (Agricultural)
460014. Chelyuskintsev str. 18. Orenburg
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Usoltsev V.А., Tsepordey I.S., Kovyazin V.F., Urazova А.F., Bornikov А.V. Biomass of generative sphere of Scots pine and drooping birch in the pollution gradient from the Karabash copper smelter on the Ural. Izvestia Sankt-Peterburgskoj lesotehniceskoj akademii. 2021;(234):23-52. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21266/2079-4304.2021.234.23-52
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