This book covers a round-up of environmental changes in Siberia with a focus on the terrestrial biosphere but also discussing climate and atmosphere and the hydrological cycle. It concludes with a discussion of information system approaches that are being developed to safeguard and make accessible spatial and temporal data for environmental studies.
Siberia is undergoing rapid transformations as a result of its climate vulnerability and the exceptionally high rate of warming it has undergone in recent decades. The information presented in this book was not easily accessible to the global change community before. Contributors include a wide range of Russian, European and North American authors from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds including field ecology, satellite remote sensing and modelling.
The book investigates disturbance processes in the taiga forest with a focus on fire and logging, provides observational evidence of evergreen conifer invasion into larch dominated zones which could be a sign of climate change, and describes vegetation model predictions of shifting vegetation zones. Satellite observations of snow cover in Siberia are presented, and observed changes in river runoff described. The interactions between the hydrological cycle, the biosphere and the atmosphere are looked at from a variety of disciplinary viewpoints.
Author(s): M. A. Korets, V. A. Ryzhkova, I. V. Danilova, A. I. Sukhinin, S. A. Bartalev (auth.), Heiko Balzter (eds.)
Series: Advances in Global Change Research 40
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 300
Tags: Climate Change; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis; Physical Geography; Biogeosciences; Ecosystems
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Forest Disturbance Assessment Using Satellite Data of Moderate and Low Resolution....Pages 3-19
Fire/Climate Interactions in Siberia....Pages 21-36
Long-Term Dynamics of Mixed Fir-Aspen Forests in West Sayan (Altai-Sayan Ecoregion)....Pages 37-51
Evidence of Evergreen Conifers Invasion into Larch Dominated Forests During Recent Decades....Pages 53-65
Potential Climate-Induced Vegetation Change in Siberia in the Twenty-First Century....Pages 67-82
Wildfire Dynamics in Mid-Siberian Larch Dominated Forests....Pages 83-100
Dendroclimatological Evidence of Climate Changes Across Siberia....Pages 101-114
Siberian Pine and Larch Response to Climate Warming in the Southern Siberian Mountain Forest: Tundra Ecotone....Pages 115-132
Front Matter....Pages 134-134
Remote Sensing of Spring Snowmelt in Siberia....Pages 135-155
Response of River Runoff in the Cryolithic Zone of Eastern Siberia (Lena River Basin) to Future Climate Warming....Pages 157-169
Front Matter....Pages 172-172
Investigating Regional Scale Processes Using Remotely Sensed Atmospheric CO 2 Column Concentrations from SCIAMACHY....Pages 173-192
Climatic and Geographic Patterns of Spatial Distribution of Precipitation in Siberia....Pages 193-210
Front Matter....Pages 212-212
Interoperability, Data Discovery and Access: The e-Infrastructures for Earth Sciences Resources....Pages 213-231
Development of a Web-Based Information-Computational Infrastructure for the Siberia Integrated Regional Study....Pages 233-252
Conclusions....Pages 253-253
Back Matter....Pages 255-282
