Abstract

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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Title
Dryland belt of Northern Eurasia: contemporary environmental changes and their consequences
Author
Groisman, Pavel 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Bulygina, Olga 2 ; Henebry, Geoffrey 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Speranskaya, Nina 4 ; Shiklomanov, Alexander 5 ; Chen, Yizhao 6   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Tchebakova, Nadezhda 7 ; Parfenova, Elena 7 ; Tilinina, Natalia 8 ; Zolina, Olga 9 ; Dufour, Ambroise 10 ; Chen, Jiquan 3 ; Ranjeet, John 11 ; Fan, Peilei 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Mátyás, Csaba 12 ; Yesserkepova, Irina 13 ; Kaipov, Ildan 14 

 North 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 America 
 Russian Institute for Hydrometeorological Information, Obninsk, Kaluga Area, Russia 
 Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America 
 State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia 
 Earth Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, United States of America 
 Joint Innovation Center for Modern Forestry Studies, College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China 
 Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk Federal Research Center, SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia 
 P. P Shirshov Institute for Oceanology, RAS, Moscow, Russia 
 P. P Shirshov Institute for Oceanology, RAS, Moscow, Russia; Lab. de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Joseph Fourier Univ., Grenoble, France 
10  Lab. de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Joseph Fourier Univ., Grenoble, France 
11  Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America 
12  University of Sopron, Sopron, Hungary 
13  Joint Stock Company ‘Zhasyl Damu’ of the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Kazakhstan 
14  National Center for Space Research and Technologies, Almaty, Kazakhstan 
Publication year
2018
Publication date
Nov 2018
Publisher
IOP Publishing
e-ISSN
17489326
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2549051218
Copyright
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