Examples of Ecotones and Paragenese in the Vegetation Cover of the Baikalian Siberia

Alexander P. Sizykh¹, Svetlana V. Sizykh²

¹Siberian Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia.
²Botanic Garden, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia.

DOI: 10.4236/ns.2014.615107                

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.

Keywords

Baikalian Siberia, Zonal and Extrazonal Vegetation Communities, Altitude Belts, Ecotones, Paragenese

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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