Mapping resource use over a Russian landscape: an integrated look at harvesting of a non-timber forest product in central Kamchatka

• Published in: Minerals
• Main Authors: Stephanie K Hitztaler, Kathleen M Bergen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 2013
• Subjects: Russian Far East; Landsat; remote sensing; land-cover/land-use; small-scale resource use; lingonberry; Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering; TD1-1066; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Science; Q; Physics; QC1-999; Kamchatka Peninsula; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/045020; https://doaj.org/article/fdf87287bf5648329e871784dd34f5ea

Small-scale resource use became an important adaptive mechanism in remote logging communities in Russia at the onset of the post-Soviet period in 1991. We focused on harvesting of a non-timber forest product, lingonberry ( Vaccinium vitis-idaea ), in the forests of the Kamchatka Peninsula (Russian F...