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Geographical Peculiarities of Pinus sibirica Du Tour Natural Regeneration as Related to its Seed Crops

Nikolai V. Tantsyrev3 , Seyed Omid Reza Shobairi12 * , Vladimir A. Usoltsev34 , Sun Lingxiao12 , Zhang Haiyan12 , Li Chunlan12 , He Jing12 , Samira Hemmati Roudbari5 , Behnam Asghari Beirami6 and Qirghizbek Ayombekov1

1 Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumuqi, China

2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, Chaina

3 Ural State Forest Engineering University, Faculty of Forestry, Sibirskiy Trakt, Yekaterinburg, Russia

4 Institute Botanical Garden of Ural Branch of RAS, Marta str.,, Yekaterinburg, Russia

5 Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran

6 Department of Photogrammetry and Remote sensing, Faculty of Geodesy and Geomatics, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Teharn, Iran

Corresponding author Email: omidshobeyri214@gmail.com

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.19.1.10

Forest ecology faces a significant challenge in understanding the dynamics of populations of forest-forming trees during their renewal phase, as it shapes the subsequent development and structure of forest ecosystems. The forest regeneration process relies on the dynamics of the seed yield of the woody plants and the unique characteristics of their distribution. In the case of the Cembrae sp. five-needled pines belonging, which have wingless seeds, their renewal is closely linked to the activities of Nucifraga sp. birds that scatter the seeds to create food reserves in the soil. This research aims to explore the geographical variations of Siberian stone pine (Pinus sibirica Du Tour) natural regeneration as a function of seed abundance. This study was conducted in three Russian mountain regions known for their forests predominated by Pinus sibirica: the Aldan Highlands, the Northern Urals, and the Khamar-Daban Mountains. It was discovered that each region exhibited distinct patterns in both cone yields and Pinus sibirica regeneration. The fluctuations in the thin-billed nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes macrorhynchos Brehm C. L.) populations during the seed harvest season, influenced by the nature of the seed production dynamics in each region, we believed to play a major role in the quantity of Pinus sibirica seedlings appearing in the subsequent year. These findings explain the observed variations in the renewal dynamics of annual emergent seedlings of Pinus sibirica and its reliance on cone yield in the examined regions.

Crop Dynamics; Food Caches; Nutcracker Nbundance; Seedlings; Siberian Stone Pine; Trophic Relationships

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Tantsyrev N. V, Shobairi S. O. R, Usoltsev V. A, Lingxiao S, Haiyan Z, Chunlan L, Jing H, Roudbari S. H, Beirami B. A, Ayombekov Q. Geographical Peculiarities of Pinus sibirica Du Tour Natural Regeneration as Related to its Seed Crops. Curr World Environ 2024;19(1). DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.19.1.10

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Tantsyrev N. V, Shobairi S. O. R, Usoltsev V. A, Lingxiao S, Haiyan Z, Chunlan L, Jing H, Roudbari S. H, Beirami B. A, Ayombekov Q. Geographical Peculiarities of Pinus sibirica Du Tour Natural Regeneration as Related to its Seed Crops. Curr World Environ 2024;19(1).

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