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Vegetation pattern within a thermokarst landscape in the central Altay Mountains (West Siberia)
Author(s) -
König P.,
Rilke S.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
feddes repertorium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1522-239X
pISSN - 0014-8962
DOI - 10.1002/fedr.200411055
Subject(s) - mire , thermokarst , transect , vegetation (pathology) , desert (philosophy) , structural basin , geography , physical geography , flora (microbiology) , belt transect , peat , geology , desertification , ecology , geomorphology , archaeology , paleontology , permafrost , medicine , philosophy , oceanography , epistemology , pathology , bacteria , biology
In a mountain basin landscape influenced by a semi‐desert climate in the South Siberian Altay, a geobotanical study was conducted by placing a transect through a run‐off runnel and creating a vegetation map for the wet mire and meadow regions of the study area. The close proximity of semi‐desert and mire associations, formed by thermokarst phenomena, is noteworthy. The associations are presented in terms of their locations, and a phytogeographic classification of species is given. Comparisons with the conditions in NW Mongolia demonstrate the close relationships of dry slopes in the Chuya Basin with the typical Central Asian semi‐desert flora, which extends from the Great Lakes Basin into the southern desert zone of Mongolia. (© 2004 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)