Forest regeneration and biodiversity at the forest-steppe border of the Altai and Khangay Mountains under contrasting developments of livestock numbers in Kazakhstan and Mongolia

Plant Diversity and Forest Ecology

  • Ground vegetation (vascular plant diversity)

  • Epiphytic lichen diversity

  • Biomass and carbon pools

  • Growth and climate trends (tree-ring analysis)

  • Nutrients

  • Fine-root distribution



    Siberian larch (Larix sibirica) forest in the Khangay Mountains



    Larch saplings damaged by livestock grazing at the forest line to the steppe



    Recording of stand structure for the estimation of above-ground biomass



    Wood-core sampling for tree-ring analysis



    Soil sampling



    Soil sampling



    Soil profile description