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As the result of a discussion that started with a debate about the indicators of land degradation and desertification in Central Asia in the context of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), it was realised that the winter cold steppe regions are seldom investigated from a multi-factorial perspective. This article reviews investigations into a framework of indicators developed to assess desertification and land degradation problems as applied to the Kulunda Steppe in the south of West Siberia by focusing on deflation morphodynamics. This article describes preliminary indicators and investigations into problems and indicators of land degradation in the Northern Kulunda at the regional level. An assessment of the deflation problem is illustrated by using the local example of the Ivanovskoe farm in the Bagan district of the Novosibirsk region. Results are presented about (a) the formulation of indicators for land degradation problems; (b) a regional morphodynamics assessment using soil maps and statistics; (c) local soil types and the dominant landscape processes and (d) a deflation assessment example based on the soil degradation indicators. The conclusion presents unresolved research questions about the vegetation-soil–water steppe system in the context of land use and protective measures in a heterogeneous steppe environment.
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The research was funded by the BMBF (WTZ RUS 04/008) in the project “climate change and desertification in model-regions of Russia” in cooperation with the Siberian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk. We also like to thank E.N. Smolentseva and B.A. Smolentsev for the intensive and constructive collaboration and all the help in the context of the research and the field trips.
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Schreiner, V., Meyer, B.C. (2014). Indicators of Land Degradation in Steppe Regions: Soil and Morphodynamics in the Northern Kulunda. In: Mueller, L., Saparov, A., Lischeid, G. (eds) Novel Measurement and Assessment Tools for Monitoring and Management of Land and Water Resources in Agricultural Landscapes of Central Asia. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01017-5_33
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