1st Edition
Ecology of Siberian Dwarf Pine Pinus Pumila (Pallas) Regel in Kamchatka
This book would be particularly valuable to researchers in the fields of ecology, forestry, botany, and universities and scientific forest institutes. It includes 70 illustrations, 17 tables, and 442 bibliography.
Introduction
The urgency of nature-management problems
Research needed
Investigations of P. Pumila
Pinus Pumila
Taxonomic position, range, and relations in Boreal forests of the Northern Hemisphere
Taxonomic Position and range
Phylogenetic outline
vicariants
Pinus Pumila in the plant cover of Northeastern Asia and Kamchatka
General principles. More exact defination of notions Pinus Pumila as an independent component of Tundra-Forest
P. Pumila in the Kamchatka vegetation cover
History of the Pinus Pumila formation in Kamchatka in the late cenozoic (on the basis of palynilogical data)
Appropriateness of using of sporo-pollen spectra and their representativity in reconstructing the history of the plant cover in the regions
P. Pumila in the Pliocene
P. Pumila in the Pleistocene
P. Pumila in the Holocene
Adaptogenesis of Pinus. Pumila: P. Pumila morphology
Seasonal development of P. Pumila
P. Pumila seed production on Kamchatka
References
Illustrations
Tables
Bibliography
Biography
P A Khomentovsky
