RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

 No. 3, 2003

Original Articles

Influence of Climatic Changes on Annual Ring Growth and Structure in Scots Pine Trees of Provenances in Krasnoyarsk Forest-Steppe

Yu. V. Savva, E. A. Vaganov, andL. I. Milyutin

Diversity, Properties, and Ecological Quality of Soils in Forest Biogeocenoses of the National Park "Smolenskoe Poozerye"

G. N. Koptsik and S. Yu. Livantsova

Basic Regularities of Forming Nitrogen Regime in Forest Soils of Karelia

N. G. Fedorets

Vital State of Native Pine Forests at the Pechora-Ilych Biosphere Reserve

N. V. Torlopova and S. V. Il'chukov

Sylvicultural and Ecological Assessment of Felling Technique Work under Clear Cutting

V. I. Obydennikov

Growing of Woody Plants on Technogenic Substrates in Oil-Producing Regions of Western Siberia

V. N. Sedykh and V. V. Tarakanov

Specific Features of Picea abies Growth under Various Arrangement of Seed Beds M. D. Merzlenko and A. S. Yakovenko

Short Communications

Species Distribution in Herb-Dwarf Shrub Cover of Birch Forests (Southern Taiga Subzone) D. V. Tatarnikov

Reduction of Absorbing Root Length in Siberian Fir and Siberian Spruce under Heavy Metal Pollution

D. V. Veselkin

Reviews

Three Books on the Far Eastern Forests

A. I. Utkin

"Forests of the Komi Republic," "Forest Management and Forest Resources of the Komi Republic"

V. F. Tsvetkov

"Bioproduction Process in Forest Ecosystems of the North"

V. B. Skupchenko

"Structural Anomalies of Woody Plant Stems"

E. G. Mozolevskaya

Obituaries

Fedor Ivanovich Pleshikov (1944-2002)

Elena Maximilianovna Fil'rose (1926-2002)