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28 July 2020 Are There Differences in the Response of Natural Stand and Plantation Biomass to Changes in Temperature and Precipitation? A Case for Two-Needled Pines in Eurasia
Usoltsev Vladimir Andreevich, Shobairi Seyed Omid Reza, Tsepordey Ivan Stepanovich, Ahrari Amirhossein, Zhang Meng, Shoaib Ahmad Anees, Chasovskikh Viktor Petrovich
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Abstract

A comparative discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of natural stands and plantations, including in terms of their productivity and stability, began from the moment of the first forest plantings and continues to this day. In the context of the progressive replacement of natural forests by plantations due to deforestation, the question of how will change the carbon storage capacity of forest cover when replacing natural forests with artificial ones in a changing climate becomes extremely relevant. This article presents the first attempt to answer this question at the transcontinental level on a special case for two-needled pine trees (subgenus Pinus L.). The research was carried out using the database compiled by the authors on the single-tree biomass structure of forest-forming species of Eurasia, in particular, data of 1880 and 1967 of natural and plantation trees, respectively. Multi-factor regression models are calculated after combining the matrix of initial data on the structure of tree biomass with the mean January temperature and mean annual precipitation, and their adequacy indices allow us to consider them reproducible. It is found that the aboveground and stem biomass of equal-sized and equal-aged natural and plantation trees increases as the January temperature and precipitation rise. This pattern is only partially valid for the branches biomass, and it has a specific character for the foliage one. The biomass of all components of plantation trees is higher than that of natural trees, but the percent of this excess varies among different components and depends on the level of January temperatures, but does not depend at all on the level of annual precipitation. A number of uncertainties that arose during the modeling process, as well as the preliminary nature of the obtained regularities, are noted.

Usoltsev Vladimir Andreevich, Shobairi Seyed Omid Reza, Tsepordey Ivan Stepanovich, Ahrari Amirhossein, Zhang Meng, Shoaib Ahmad Anees, and Chasovskikh Viktor Petrovich "Are There Differences in the Response of Natural Stand and Plantation Biomass to Changes in Temperature and Precipitation? A Case for Two-Needled Pines in Eurasia," Journal of Resources and Ecology 11(4), 331-341, (28 July 2020). https://doi.org/10.5814/j.issn.1674-764x.2020.04.001
Received: 18 February 2020; Accepted: 15 May 2020; Published: 28 July 2020
KEYWORDS
annual precipitation
biomass equations
mean January temperature
natural stands and plantations
regression models
two-needled pine trees
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