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Influence of climatic factors and reserve assimilates on the radial growth and carbon isotope composition in tree rings of deciduous and coniferous species

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This paper analyzes variations in the isotope composition of growth rings in coniferous and deciduous species (Picea obovata L., Pinus sylvestris L., Populus tremula L., Betula pubescens Ehrh.) growing in the extremely continental climate of Central Siberia. The seasonal variation in carbon isotopes in tree rings is shown to differ significantly in different species (with significant synchrony in interannual variability. Species differences are found in the use of reserve assimilates in the formation of tree rings in the early growing season.

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  1. V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Akademgorodok, 50/28, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia

    M. V. Bryukhanova

  2. Siberian Federal University, pr. Svobodnyi 79, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia

    E. A. Vaganov

  3. Institute of Biology I, University of Leipzig, Johannisallee 21-23, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

    C. Wirth

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Original Russian Text © M.V. Bryukhanova, E.A. Vaganov, C. Wirth, 2011, published in Sibirskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal, 2011, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 171–179.

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Bryukhanova, M.V., Vaganov, E.A. & Wirth, C. Influence of climatic factors and reserve assimilates on the radial growth and carbon isotope composition in tree rings of deciduous and coniferous species. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 4, 126–132 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425511020020

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