Taiga Landscape Degradation Evidenced by Indigenous Observations and Remote Sensing

• Published in: Sustainability
• Main Authors: Arina O. Morozova, Kelsey E. Nyland, Vera V. Kuklina
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: informal roads; Evenki; indigenous knowledge; development; unsupervised classification; spatial autocorrelation analysis; taiga
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/su15031751

Siberian taiga is subject to intensive logging and natural resource exploitation, which promote the proliferation of informal roads: trails and unsurfaced service roads neither recognized nor maintained by the government. While transportation development can improve connectivity between communities...