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Examples of Ecotones and Paragenese in the Vegetation Cover of the Baikalian Siberia
Siberian Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia
Botanic Garden, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia
- 1 Siberian Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia
- 2 Botanic Garden, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia
Natural Science·Volume 06 (2014)·Pages 1197–1209·Published 30 September 2014·DOI10.4236/ns.2014.615107
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Abstract
Changes in vegetation structure in environments contact community characterize the ecotones and paragenese inside zonal vegetation site or altitude belt as of concrete environments while differences of cenotic structures of communities between zones or between altitude belts as well. The aim of this work was research of structural-dynamic organization of phytocenoses forming under the conditions of environments contact and mountain tundra, forests (zonal taiga) and extrazonal steppes, zonal forest steppes of some areas at the Baikalian Siberia, Eastern Siberia of Russia.
KeywordsBaikalian SiberiaZonal and Extrazonal Vegetation CommunitiesAltitude BeltsEcotonesParagenese
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