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Influence of Ecological Factors on the Population-Ontogenetic Parameters of Vaccinium vitis-idaea L. in Forest Ecosystems of the European Northeast of Russia

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Vaccinium vitis-idaeà L. is a widespread and dominant species of boreal forests. It has an important ecological role as a food source for humans and many species of animals, including birds. The aim of this study is to determine the ecological features and their influence on the ontogenetic structure of V. vitis-idaea populations in forest ecosystems of the southern taiga (Kirov oblast, Russia). V. vitis-idaea is a gemyeurybiotic species whose ecological space amplitude in Kirov oblast does not exceed the limits of Tsyganov’s ecological range scales (1983). The discomfort index calculated with phytoindication data made it possible to determine the level of favor. We have determined that conditions of swampy pine forest (CP 2, 5) have optimum ecological parameters for species growth. The least favorable conditions for V. vitis-idaea development are formed in the herbaceous birch forests and green moss spruce forest (CP 4, 10), where maximum discomfort indices are marked: 1.08. All populations under study are normal and incomplete. Pregenerative individuals are stable and often dominate. Generative plants, which are absent in some populations (CP 10), are less constant. The dominant specter type of the populations is bimodal. The index of substitution states that prospective populations prevail in the study, except for population 3, which was unstable and ineffective in self-renewal. Delta-omega classification shows that young populations prevail in the study. The ecological conditions of the studied phytocoenoses affect the ontogenetic parameters of V. vitis-idaea plants. The quantity of the young generative age group depends on the soil moisture (r = 0.76) and the soil-moisture variability (r = –0.68); pregenerative age groups depend on illumination (r = 0.74). A high level of significance was revealed between the age index, the replacement index, the coefficient of vegetative self-maintenance, and the illumination of the habitat.

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Egorova, N.Y. Influence of Ecological Factors on the Population-Ontogenetic Parameters of Vaccinium vitis-idaea L. in Forest Ecosystems of the European Northeast of Russia. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 13, 656–662 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425520060074

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