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Drawing of Potential Areas of Plant Communities for Geobotanical Zoning Purposes (on Example of Tuva Forests)

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Based on the GPS coordinates of geobotanical releves seven altitudinal zone association of Tuva forests have been revealed and a set of rasters with climatic and topological parameter values, potential areas of associations has been drawn using the MaxEnt software package. These techniques allowed us to extrapolate fragmentary data on specific locations of association communities to a territory that has not been studied in detail in this respect before. The data on the areas of altitudinal zone associations of forests correspond to real distribution of forests. The analysis of potential areas of these forests has been carried out, the presence of three bioclimatic sectors in Tuva has been confirmed, and their borders have been clarified.

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This work was carried out as part of the state assignment of the Central Siberian Botanical Garden, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (state registration number AAAA-A17-117012610052-2), as well as with partial financial support from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 18-04-00822).

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    N. I. Makunina, A. V. Egorova & O. Yu. Pisarenko

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Makunina, N.I., Egorova, A.V. & Pisarenko, O.Y. Drawing of Potential Areas of Plant Communities for Geobotanical Zoning Purposes (on Example of Tuva Forests). Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 13, 412–417 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425520040095

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