Spatial – temporal interrelationships between forests and mires within the taiga ecosystems

The paper emphasizes the importance of vegetation cover self-regulation in taiga ecosystems and the essential role of mires in the formation of spatial-temporal structure of taiga ecosystems. The idea has been proposed that the stability of taiga ecosystems increases under the condition of coexistence of mire and forest. The succession strategies of forest and mires has been considered and also the contribution of mires to the biodiversity of taiga ecosystems.