Dryland belt of Northern Eurasia: contemporary environmental changes and their consequences
The dryland belt (DLB) in Northern Eurasia is the largest contiguous dryland on Earth. During the last century, changes here have included land use change (e.g. expansion of croplands and cities), resource extraction (e.g. coal, ores, oil, and gas), rapid institutional shifts (e.g. collapse of the S...
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| author | Pavel Groisman Olga Bulygina Geoffrey Henebry Nina Speranskaya Alexander Shiklomanov Yizhao Chen Nadezhda Tchebakova Elena Parfenova Natalia Tilinina Olga Zolina Ambroise Dufour Jiquan Chen Ranjeet John Peilei Fan Csaba Mátyás Irina Yesserkepova Ildan Kaipov |
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| description | The dryland belt (DLB) in Northern Eurasia is the largest contiguous dryland on Earth. During the last century, changes here have included land use change (e.g. expansion of croplands and cities), resource extraction (e.g. coal, ores, oil, and gas), rapid institutional shifts (e.g. collapse of the Soviet Union), climatic changes, and natural disturbances (e.g. wildfires, floods, and dust storms). These factors intertwine, overlap, and sometimes mitigate, but can sometimes feedback upon each other to exacerbate their synergistic and cumulative effects. Thus, it is important to properly document each of these external and internal factors and to characterize the structural relationships among them in order to develop better approaches to alleviating negative consequences of these regional environmental changes. This paper addresses the climatic changes observed over the DLB in recent decades and outlines possible links of these changes (both impacts and feedback) with other external and internal factors of contemporary regional environmental changes and human activities within the DLB. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7179fabdd6bf4a8ab5056f97e8c2500e2023-08-09T14:37:37ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262018-01-01131111500810.1088/1748-9326/aae43cDryland belt of Northern Eurasia: contemporary environmental changes and their consequencesPavel Groisman0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6255-324XOlga Bulygina1Geoffrey Henebry2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8999-2709Nina Speranskaya3Alexander Shiklomanov4Yizhao Chen5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9218-6679Nadezhda Tchebakova6Elena Parfenova7Natalia Tilinina8Olga Zolina9Ambroise Dufour10Jiquan Chen11Ranjeet John12Peilei Fan13https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4448-4281Csaba Mátyás14Irina Yesserkepova15Ildan Kaipov16North Carolina State University at NOAA Center for Environmental Information , Asheville, North Carolina, United States of America; P. P Shirshov Institute for Oceanology , RAS, Moscow, Russia; Hydrology Science and Services Corp., Asheville, North Carolina, United States of AmericaRussian Institute for Hydrometeorological Information , Obninsk, Kaluga Area, RussiaMichigan State University , East Lansing, Michigan, United States of AmericaState Hydrological Institute , St. Petersburg, RussiaEarth Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire , Durham, New Hampshire, United States of AmericaJoint Innovation Center for Modern Forestry Studies, College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University , Nanjing, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of ChinaSukachev Institute of Forest , Krasnoyarsk Federal Research Center, SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, RussiaSukachev Institute of Forest , Krasnoyarsk Federal Research Center, SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, RussiaP. P Shirshov Institute for Oceanology , RAS, Moscow, RussiaP. P Shirshov Institute for Oceanology , RAS, Moscow, Russia; Lab. de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Joseph Fourier Univ. , Grenoble, FranceLab. de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Joseph Fourier Univ. , Grenoble, FranceMichigan State University , East Lansing, Michigan, United States of AmericaOklahoma State University , Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of AmericaMichigan State University , East Lansing, Michigan, United States of AmericaUniversity of Sopron , Sopron, HungaryJoint Stock Company ‘Zhasyl Damu’ of the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, KazakhstanNational Center for Space Research and Technologies, Almaty, KazakhstanThe dryland belt (DLB) in Northern Eurasia is the largest contiguous dryland on Earth. During the last century, changes here have included land use change (e.g. expansion of croplands and cities), resource extraction (e.g. coal, ores, oil, and gas), rapid institutional shifts (e.g. collapse of the Soviet Union), climatic changes, and natural disturbances (e.g. wildfires, floods, and dust storms). These factors intertwine, overlap, and sometimes mitigate, but can sometimes feedback upon each other to exacerbate their synergistic and cumulative effects. Thus, it is important to properly document each of these external and internal factors and to characterize the structural relationships among them in order to develop better approaches to alleviating negative consequences of these regional environmental changes. This paper addresses the climatic changes observed over the DLB in recent decades and outlines possible links of these changes (both impacts and feedback) with other external and internal factors of contemporary regional environmental changes and human activities within the DLB.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aae43cNorthern Eurasiaclimatic and environmental changesimpact and feedbacks of human activity on environment |
| spellingShingle | Pavel Groisman Olga Bulygina Geoffrey Henebry Nina Speranskaya Alexander Shiklomanov Yizhao Chen Nadezhda Tchebakova Elena Parfenova Natalia Tilinina Olga Zolina Ambroise Dufour Jiquan Chen Ranjeet John Peilei Fan Csaba Mátyás Irina Yesserkepova Ildan Kaipov Dryland belt of Northern Eurasia: contemporary environmental changes and their consequences Environmental Research Letters Northern Eurasia climatic and environmental changes impact and feedbacks of human activity on environment |
| title | Dryland belt of Northern Eurasia: contemporary environmental changes and their consequences |
| title_full | Dryland belt of Northern Eurasia: contemporary environmental changes and their consequences |
| title_fullStr | Dryland belt of Northern Eurasia: contemporary environmental changes and their consequences |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dryland belt of Northern Eurasia: contemporary environmental changes and their consequences |
| title_short | Dryland belt of Northern Eurasia: contemporary environmental changes and their consequences |
| title_sort | dryland belt of northern eurasia contemporary environmental changes and their consequences |
| topic | Northern Eurasia climatic and environmental changes impact and feedbacks of human activity on environment |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aae43c |
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