Review of studies of production and destruction processes in the mires of West Siberia: methods and results

Abstract

The review discusses the results of research of production and destruction processes involved in the carbon cycle, which were carried out by the Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences the bog and palsa complexes of West Siberia. Some characteristic of the carbon cycle in mires, the methods used, and the geographical coverage of the investigations are described. Based on the published results, specific patterns of changes in phytomass, its primary production and destruction along the latitudinal gradient are characterized, and the productivity of bogs and other biogeocenoses of the region is compared.