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Environmental Change in Siberia

Earth Observation, Field Studies and Modelling

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Heiko Balzter

    1. Dept. Geography, Centre for Environmental Research, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

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  • Highlighting a multitude of processes leading to environmental change in Siberia
  • Provides a holistic view of the multiple scales at which environmental change processes operate today by combining an analysis of field observation, model results and satellite imagery
  • Features information previously not accessible to the global change community
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 40)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. BIOSPHERE

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Forest Disturbance Assessment Using Satellite Data of Moderate and Low Resolution

      • M. A. Korets, V. A. Ryzhkova, I. V. Danilova, A. I. Sukhinin, S. A. Bartalev
      Pages 3-19

    3. Fire/Climate Interactions in Siberia

      • H. Balzter, K. Tansey, J. Kaduk, C. George, F. Gerard, M. Cuevas Gonzalez et al.
      Pages 21-36

    4. Long-Term Dynamics of Mixed Fir-Aspen Forests in West Sayan (Altai-Sayan Ecoregion)

      • D. M. Ismailova, D. I. Nazimova
      Pages 37-51

    5. Evidence of Evergreen Conifers Invasion into Larch Dominated Forests During Recent Decades

      • V. I. Kharuk, K. J. Ranson, M. L. Dvinskaya
      Pages 53-65

    6. Potential Climate-Induced Vegetation Change in Siberia in the Twenty-First Century

      • N. M. Tchebakova, E. I. Parfenova, A. J. Soja
      Pages 67-82

    7. Wildfire Dynamics in Mid-Siberian Larch Dominated Forests

      • V. I. Kharuk, K. J. Ranson, M. L. Dvinskaya
      Pages 83-100

    8. Dendroclimatological Evidence of Climate Changes Across Siberia

      • V. V. Shishov, E. A. Vaganov
      Pages 101-114

    9. Siberian Pine and Larch Response to Climate Warming in the Southern Siberian Mountain Forest: Tundra Ecotone

      • V. I. Kharuk, K. J. Ranson, M. L. Dvinskaya, S. T. Im
      Pages 115-132

  3. HYDROSPHERE

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 134-134
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    2. Remote Sensing of Spring Snowmelt in Siberia

      • A. Bartsch, W. Wagner, R. Kidd
      Pages 135-155

    3. Response of River Runoff in the Cryolithic Zone of Eastern Siberia (Lena River Basin) to Future Climate Warming

      • A. G. Georgiadi, I. P. Milyukova, E. A. Kashutina
      Pages 157-169

  5. INFORMATION SYSTEMS

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 212-212
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    2. Interoperability, Data Discovery and Access: The e-Infrastructures for Earth Sciences Resources

      • S. Nativi, C. Schmullius, L. Bigagli, R. Gerlach
      Pages 213-231

    3. Development of a Web-Based Information-Computational Infrastructure for the Siberia Integrated Regional Study

      • E. P. Gordov, A. Z. Fazliev, V. N. Lykosov, I. G. Okladnikov, A. G. Titov
      Pages 233-252

    4. Conclusions

      • H. Balzter
      Pages 253-253
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About this book

The Siberian environment is a unique region of the world that is both very strongly affected by global climate change and at the same time particularly vulnerable to its consequences. The news about the melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean and the prospect of an ice-free shipping passage from Scandinavia to Alaska along the Russian north coast has sparked an international debate about natural resource exploitation, national boundaries and the impacts of the rapid changes on people, animals and plants. Over the last decades Siberia has also witnessed severe forest fires to an extent that is hard to imagine in other parts of the world where the po- lation density is higher, the fire-prone ecosystems cover much smaller areas and the systems of fire control are better resourced. The acceleration of the fire regime poses the question of the future of the boreal forest in the taiga region. Vegetation models have already predicted a shift of vegetation zones to the north under s- narios of global climate change. The implications of a large-scale expansion of the grassland steppe ecosystems in the south of Siberia and a retreat of the taiga forest into the tundra systems that expand towards the Arctic Ocean would be very signi- cant for the local population and the economy. I have studied Russian forests from remote sensing and modelling for about 11 years now and still find it a fascinating subject to investigate.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Geography, Centre for Environmental Research, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

    Heiko Balzter

About the editor

Professor Balzter Heiko Balzter is Professor in Physical Geography and Head of the Geography Department at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. His research interests include biosphere / climate interactions and their responses to environmental change, with a focus on remote sensing and modelling approaches. From 1998 to 2006 he worked at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology at Monks Wood, UK, where he was leading the Section for Earth Observation for three years. Professor Balzter has contributed to many major international and interdisciplinary research projects (supported by the European Commission, European Space Agency and British funding sources), including SIBERIA, SIBERIA-2, SIBFORD, GEOLAND and GEOLAND2. His academic background is in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and he received his Dipl.-Ing. agr. degree in 1994 with a dissertation topic on methods for vegetation sampling, and his Dr. agr. in 1998 from Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany, for a thesis on vegetation modelling using Markov Chains and Cellular Automata.

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