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Desertification in Western Siberia: Identification, Assessment and Driving Forces in Temporal Scale

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Desertification factors in the dry sub-humid regions of Russia have not yet been sufficiently studied from a systemic point of view. The Northern Kulunda Steppe is a typical inner continental steppe on the southern border of the West Siberian Plain. It is an intensively used landscape and arable land covers an area of 90% of the total land surface. The main objectives of this study were (1) to evaluate existing “desertification assessment systems” based on of post-Soviet/Russian and European approaches, (2) to develop a comprehensive regionally adapted system of indicators and identify desertification processes in the Northern Kulunda Steppe and (3) to analyse the driving forces behind these and their variation in temporal scale. Based on change detection thresholds, 16 biophysical indicators and 18 socio-economic processes were analysed and assessed to produce a systematic and reliable description of the regional desertification process. To shed light on the desertification processes, regional geoecological prerequisites and the main climatic and anthropogenic factors causing desertification were determined. The results on the interdependence of causal factors were used to create a better model for describing the temporal development of desertification processes. Analysis of the indicators resulted in (1) critical discussion about the applicability of Russian and European indicator systems, (2) the identification and refined description of the desertification process, (3) a description of the relationships between factors affecting the steppe regions and the variation of driving forces on a temporal scale and (4) evidence that the desertification processes affecting the steppe regions of the south of Western Siberia lead to the adaptation of environmental and socio-economic components.

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Schreiner, V., Meyer, B.C. (2022). Desertification in Western Siberia: Identification, Assessment and Driving Forces in Temporal Scale. In: Saljnikov, E., Mueller, L., Lavrishchev, A., Eulenstein, F. (eds) Advances in Understanding Soil Degradation. Innovations in Landscape Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85682-3_5

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