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  • Scientific Code
    (PA0607)
  • Ecoregion Category
    Palearctic
  • Size
    26,500 square miles
  • Status
    Vulnerable
  • Habitats

Description


Location and General Description

Biodiversity Features

Current Status

Types and Severity of Threats

Justification of Ecoregion Delineation
This ecoregion occupies all of Sakhalin Island with the exception of a small broadleaf zone on the southern tip. Ecoregion boundaries correspond to the central and southern taiga in the Sakhalin-Kurile forest province in Kurnaev’s (1990) forest map of the USSR.

References
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Ageenko, A. S., A. P. Klincov, N. A. Popov, V. A. Rosenberg, N. G. Vasiliev, and Y. L. Manko. 1969. Lesa Sakhalinskoi oblasty [Forests of the Sakhalin region]. Nauka, Moskva.

Berg, L. S. 1955. Priroda SSSR. [Nature of the USSR]. Gosud. izd-vo gegraph. Literatury, Moskva

Borisov, A. A. 1975. [Climates of the USSR in the past, present and future]. Klimaty SSSR v proshlom, nastoiashem i budushem. Izdatelstvo Leningradskogo Universiteta, Leningrad.

Charkevich, S. S., and N. N. Kachura. 1981. Redkie vidy rastenij sovetskogo Dal’nego Bostoka i ich ochrana [Rare plant species of the Soviet Far East and their protection]. Nauka, Moskva.

Egorova, E. M. 1977. Dikorastucshie decorativnye rastenija Sakhalina i Kurilskich ostrovov. [Wild showy plants of Sakhalin Island and Kuril Islands ]. Nauka, Moskva.

Galkina, E. A. 1956. Sphagnovie bolota. [Sphagnum bogs]. Descriptio vegetationis URSS. Ad "URSS Tabulam Geobotanicam" m. 1:4000000. Academiae Scientarum URSS, Annotationes. Mosqua- Leningrad.

Gvozdetskii N.A., Mikhailov N.I. Fizicheskaja geografija SSSR. Aziatskaya chast. -.Moskva. Vishaja shkola. 1987 – 448p. [Physical geography of the USSR. Asian part.].

Isachenko, T. I., and A. N. Lukicheva. 1956. Berezovie i osinovie lesa [Birch and aspen forests] Descriptio vegetationis URSS. Ad "URSS Tabulam Geobotanicam" m. 1:4000000. Academiae Scientarum URSS, Annotationes. Mosqua- Leningrad.

Kurnaev, S. 1990. Forest regionalization of the USSR (1:16,000,000). Department of Geodesy and Cartography, Moscow.

Nikolskaja, V. V. 1981. Fizicheskaja geografija Dalnego [Physical geography of the Far East]. Vostoka, Moskva.

Parmusin. U. P. Tajga SSSR. [Taiga of the USSR].M.: Misl’, 1985. 303 p.

Popov, M. G. 1977. Osobennosti flori Dal’nego Vostoka sravnitel’no s evropejscoj. [Comparison of the Far East flora and European flora]. Tashkent: izd-voUzSSR.

Sochava, V.B. 1956a. Listvennichnye lesa. [Larch forests]. Descriptio vegetationis URSS. Ad "URSS Tabulam Geobotanicam" m. 1:4000000. Academiae Scientarum URSS. Mosqua- Leningrad.

Sochava, V. B. 1956b. Temnochvoinye lesa. [Dark coniferous forests]. Descriptio vegetationis URSS. Ad "SSSR Tabulam Geobotanicam" m. 1:4000000. Academiae Scientarum SSSR. Mosqua- Leningrad.

Stanukovich, K.V. 1973. Rastitelnost’ gor SSSR. [Vegetation of mountains of the USSR]. Dushanbe, Donish.

Tichomirov, B. A. 1949. Kedrovy stlanik, ego biologia i ispolzovanie. [Dwarf pine, its biology and usage]. Materialy k poznaniyu fauny i flory SSSR, izdavaemye Moskovskim Obshestvom Ispytateley Prirody, Novaja seria, Otdel botanicheskiy, Vypusk 6 (XIV), Moskva, Izdatelstvo Moskovskogo Obshestva Ispytateley Prirody.

Tolmachev, A. I. 1956. Shirotnye predely rasprostranenija rastenij na Sakhaline [Altitudinal limits of the distribution of the plants at the Sakhalin Island]. Rastitelnyj pokrov Sakhalina. Geograficheskij sbornik VIII, Izd-vo Academii nauk SSSR. Moskva-Leningrad.

Tolmachev, A. I. 1959. O flore o. Sakhalin. [About flora of the Sakhalin Island]. Komarovskie chtenja XII. Izd-vo Akademii nauk, Moskva-Leningrad.

Tolmachev, A. I. 1974a. Vvedenie v geographiyu rasteniy. [Introduction to the plant geography]. Izdatelstvo Leningradskogo Universiteta, Leningrad.

Tolmachev, A. I. 1974b. Opredelitel vyshich rasteniy Sakhalina i Kurilskih ostrovov [Key for the vascular plants of Sakhalin and Kurile islands]. Nauka, Leningrad.

Zabelina, N. M., L. S. Isaeva-Petrova, and L. V. Kuleshova. 1998. Zapovedniki i natsionalnie parki Russia [Zapovedniks and national parks of Russia]. LOGATA, Moskva.

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