Boreal to temperate forests transition within Kunashir Island (the Kuril Archipelago): Insights from the novel vegetation map

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17581/bp.2024.13109" target="_blank" >10.17581/bp.2024.13109</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Boreal to temperate forests transition within Kunashir Island (the Kuril Archipelago): Insights from the novel vegetation map

Original language description

The vegetation of the Kuril Islands remains insufficiently explored due to their remote location and harsh environment. Understanding the factors that influence vegetation distribution in this extensive volcanic chain of islands, spanning over a thousand kilometers, is important for global biogeography. Our paper presents the first vegetation map of Kunashir Island from the Kuril archipelago, compiled using Sentinel-2 medium-resolution multispectral satellite imagery, incorporating original field research data and the Random Forest machine-learning algorithm. The temperate broad-leaved forests are mainly composed of Acer mono subsp. mayrii and Quercus mongolica, predominantly limited to the southwestern coast, and true-boreal dark-coniferous Abies sachalinensis–Picea jezoensis forests located in the northeast part of Kunashir. The vegetation distribution pattern is associated with the warming effect of the Soja current on the east coast of Kunashir Island and the cooling effect of the Kuril current on the west coast. Kunashir's vegetation displays features of an ecotone between temperate and boreal zones. Still, the boundary between these zones should be drawn within the island, rather than between Kunashir and Hokkaido or Kunashir and Iturup, as suggested in some previous biogeographic generalizations.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Botanica Pacifica

ISSN

2226-4701

e-ISSN

2410-3713

Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

RU - RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

37-43

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85193538917