4.7 Article

Dryland belt of Northern Eurasia: contemporary environmental changes and their consequences

Journal

ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 13, Issue 11, Pages -

Publisher

IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aae43c

Keywords

Northern Eurasia; climatic and environmental changes; impact and feedbacks of human activity on environment

Funding

  1. NASA [NNX15AP81G]
  2. Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant [16-05-00496]
  3. 'ARCTIC-ERA: ARCTIC climate change and its impact on environment, infrastructures, and resource availability' - ANR (France)
  4. RFBR (Russia)
  5. US NSF [1602879, 1717770, 1558389]
  6. National Youth Science Fund of China [41701227]
  7. Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions in China
  8. Russian RFFI [18-05-60240]
  9. Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation [14.B25.31.0026]
  10. Ministry of Education and Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan [AP05135848]
  11. Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH) Program of the NSF [1313761]
  12. LCLUC program of NASA [NNX15AD10G, NNX14AD85G]
  13. US National Science Foundation [1717770, 17-S03R]
  14. 'Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems' program of the NSF [1313761]

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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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