Аннотация: The effects of cutting on the ecological conditions and soil respiration in larch forests of Japan were studied. The cutting was found to significantly change the soil surface, resulting in the high spatial and temporal variation of the hydrothermal conditions and soil respiration. The influence of a stand's thinning on the environment and soil respiration is considered using the example of the thinning of a ripening larch stand in the Tomakomai National Forest (Hokkaido Island, Japan). The changes in the hydrothermal conditions (the temperature and moisture of the mineral soil layers and litter) and some other factors (the root and litter density and the C/N ratio) after the thinning of the stands and their influence on the soil respiration were studied. The soil respiration in the thinned forest site did not differ from that on the control plot, whereas the soil temperature was much higher in the former. The moisture of the soil mineral layers and the litter was the same. Despite the latter fact, no significant relationships between the soil respiration and its temperature and moisture were found. In the area covered with the thinned forest, the water content of the litter turned out to be the main microclimatic factor affecting the soil respiration. There, the fine roots and litter density were 18 and 15 % less, respectively. The thinning of the stand induced high variation of the soil respiration and temperature, as well as of the fine roots and the litter density. On the whole, the soil respiration in the larch forest studied in Japan was determined by the litter stock and the C to N ratio.
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[Masyagina, O. V.
Prokushkin, S. G.] Russian Acad Sci, Siberian Branch, Sukachev Inst Forestry, Krasnoyarsk 660036, Russia
[Masyagina, O. V.
Koike, T.] Hokkaido Univ, Sapporo, Hokkaido 0608589, Japan
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