Remote sensing observations over areas of the former Soviet Union suggest that there may be important ongoing influences on forested landscapes resulting from divergent land use and forest management associated with the Soviet versus post-Soviet eras. As the Russian Federation implements its new Forest Code and associated regulations, knowledge of existing forest patterns and trends,… Continue reading Forested land-cover patterns and trends over changing forest management eras in the Siberian Baikal region
Keyword: Logging (timber)
Changing regimes: Forested land cover dynamics in central Siberia 1974 to 2001
The twentieth century saw fundamental shifts in northern Eurasian political and land-management paradigms, in Russia culminating in the political transition of 1991. We used the 1972 to 2001 Landsat archive bracketing this transition to observe change trends in southern central Siberian Russia in primarily forested study sites, Landsat resolved conifer, mixed, deciduous and young forest;… Continue reading Changing regimes: Forested land cover dynamics in central Siberia 1974 to 2001