Insect-plant interactions in anthropogenically transformed ecosystems

Evgeny V. Kultunov; Victor I. Ponomarev; Sergey I. Fedorenko

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Insect-plant interactions in anthropogenically transformed ecosystems

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Authors:

Evgeny V. Kultunov, Victor I. Ponomarev, Sergey I. Fedorenko

Year:

1991

Type:

Paper

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Baranchikov, Yuri N.; Mattson, William J.; Hain, Fred P.; Payne, Thomas L., eds. Forest Insect Guilds: Patterns of Interaction with Host Trees; 1989 August 13-17; Abakan, Siberia, U.S.S.R. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-153. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station: 213-214.

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Abstract

Structural and functional changes in forests due to anthropogenic factors have a considerable impact on the interaction of phytophagous insects with the phytocenosis. Many features of these processes have yet to be investigated in the deciduous forest conditions of the forest-steppe zone. We investigated birch forests disturbed by anthropogenic factors in the middle and southern Urals. Anthropogenic transformation stages were determined using geobotanical analyses of grass (Polyakova 1983), physiological and chemical analyses of soil, and analyses of forest stand structures and the dynamics of radial increment growth. The principal subject of study was Lymantria dispar populations over the course of a population cycle.

Parent Publication

Forest Insect Guilds: Patterns of Interaction with Host Trees

Citation

Kultunov, Evgeny V.; Ponomarev, Victor I.; Fedorenko, Sergey I. 1991. Insect-plant interactions in anthropogenically transformed ecosystems. In: Baranchikov, Yuri N.; Mattson, William J.; Hain, Fred P.; Payne, Thomas L., eds. Forest Insect Guilds: Patterns of Interaction with Host Trees; 1989 August 13-17; Abakan, Siberia, U.S.S.R. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-153. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station: 213-214.