Increasing fire and logging disturbances in Siberian boreal forests: a case study of the Angara region
Abstract Forest disturbances are a critical environmental issue globally and within the boreal biome, yet detailed attribution and trends in disturbances are lacking for many Siberian regions. The Angara region located in the southern taiga of Central Siberia has experienced significant disturbances...
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crioppubl:10.1088/1748-9326/ac2e37 2024-06-23T07:57:07+00:00 Increasing fire and logging disturbances in Siberian boreal forests: a case study of the Angara region Shvetsov, Evgeny G Kukavskaya, Elena A Shestakova, Tatiana A Laflamme, Jocelyne Rogers, Brendan M Russian Foundation for Basic Research Krasnoyarsk Region Science and Technology Support Fund 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2e37 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2e37 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2e37/pdf unknown IOP Publishing http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://iopscience.iop.org/info/page/text-and-data-mining Environmental Research Letters volume 16, issue 11, page 115007 ISSN 1748-9326 journal-article 2021 crioppubl https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2e37 2024-06-10T04:11:28Z Abstract Forest disturbances are a critical environmental issue globally and within the boreal biome, yet detailed attribution and trends in disturbances are lacking for many Siberian regions. The Angara region located in the southern taiga of Central Siberia has experienced significant disturbances during the past several decades and is a hotspot of change in Eurasia. Here we estimated fire and logging disturbances using MODIS and Landsat data for the period 2002–2020 across the Angara region and analyzed the resulting trends. Average annual burned and logged area was about 220 and 31 thousand ha or 2 and 0.3% of the study area, respectively. In total, about 4.1 million ha (38% of the region) and 0.6 million ha (6% of the region) were disturbed by fires and logging, respectively. Spatial analysis showed that almost 50% of fires were ignited within 2 km of anthropogenic features such as settlements, roads and logged areas. Almost 5% of the Angara region was burned two or more times during the 19 years of observations. Improved and strictly-enforced conservation and management policies are required to halt continued forest degradation in the Angara region and similarly-affected boreal forests in Siberia. Article in Journal/Newspaper taiga Siberia IOP Publishing Environmental Research Letters 16 11 115007 |
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Abstract Forest disturbances are a critical environmental issue globally and within the boreal biome, yet detailed attribution and trends in disturbances are lacking for many Siberian regions. The Angara region located in the southern taiga of Central Siberia has experienced significant disturbances during the past several decades and is a hotspot of change in Eurasia. Here we estimated fire and logging disturbances using MODIS and Landsat data for the period 2002–2020 across the Angara region and analyzed the resulting trends. Average annual burned and logged area was about 220 and 31 thousand ha or 2 and 0.3% of the study area, respectively. In total, about 4.1 million ha (38% of the region) and 0.6 million ha (6% of the region) were disturbed by fires and logging, respectively. Spatial analysis showed that almost 50% of fires were ignited within 2 km of anthropogenic features such as settlements, roads and logged areas. Almost 5% of the Angara region was burned two or more times during the 19 years of observations. Improved and strictly-enforced conservation and management policies are required to halt continued forest degradation in the Angara region and similarly-affected boreal forests in Siberia. |
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Shvetsov, Evgeny G Kukavskaya, Elena A Shestakova, Tatiana A Laflamme, Jocelyne Rogers, Brendan M |
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Shvetsov, Evgeny G Kukavskaya, Elena A Shestakova, Tatiana A Laflamme, Jocelyne Rogers, Brendan M Increasing fire and logging disturbances in Siberian boreal forests: a case study of the Angara region |
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Shvetsov, Evgeny G Kukavskaya, Elena A Shestakova, Tatiana A Laflamme, Jocelyne Rogers, Brendan M |
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Shvetsov, Evgeny G |
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Increasing fire and logging disturbances in Siberian boreal forests: a case study of the Angara region |
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Increasing fire and logging disturbances in Siberian boreal forests: a case study of the Angara region |
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Increasing fire and logging disturbances in Siberian boreal forests: a case study of the Angara region |
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Increasing fire and logging disturbances in Siberian boreal forests: a case study of the Angara region |
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Increasing fire and logging disturbances in Siberian boreal forests: a case study of the Angara region |
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increasing fire and logging disturbances in siberian boreal forests: a case study of the angara region |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2e37 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2e37 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2e37/pdf |
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