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Environmental and landscape changes in the Aral Sea region as detected from remote sensing

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The Aral Sea Basin

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Environmental changes of in the Aral sea region have arisen from the desiccation of the Aral sea, desertification of the Amu Dar’ya and Syr Dar’ya deltas, and technogenic processes. The spatial scales of changes are huge and have a regional character.

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  1. Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Moscow, 109017, Sciences Staromonetny per 29, Russia

    A. Ptichnikov

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  1. Department of Geography, Western Michigan University, 49008, Kalamazoo, MI, USA

    Philip P. Micklin

  2. Department of Zoology, University of Adelaide, 5005, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    William D. Williams

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Ptichnikov, A. (1996). Environmental and landscape changes in the Aral Sea region as detected from remote sensing. In: Micklin, P.P., Williams, W.D. (eds) The Aral Sea Basin. NATO ASI Series, vol 12. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61182-7_14

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