LCLUC Synthesis: Forested Land Cover and Land Use Change in the Far East of Northern Eurasia and Siberia Under the Combined Drivers of Climate and Socio-Economic Transformation

Kathleen Bergen, University of Michigan, kbergen@umich.edu (Presenter)
Tatiana Loboda, Univ. Maryland, loboda@umd.edu
Joshua Newell, University of Michigan, jpnewell@umich.edu
Jacquelyn Shuman, University of Virginia, jkshuman@virginia.edu
Daniel Brown, University of Michigan, danbrown@umich.edu
Herman Henry Shugart, University of Virginia, hhs@virginia.edu

Our research sites in the Russian Far East and East Siberia and their border region with China form the nucleus of the world’s largest forest. This forest has experienced the greatest measured climatic change over the last several decades and these changes are predicted to continue in the near future. The critical issue—our driving Research Question for this synthesis project—is the following: How have human-driven disturbances related to use of forest resources, combined with natural and other disturbances (fire, insects, agriculture), created the landscapes of the region over the past 35 years? How might they change in the future? In answering, we integrate human and natural drivers and their consequences. Therefore the overarching Goal of this synthesis is to quantify and attribute changes in land-use and land-cover due to climatic variability and due to changing anthropogenic socio-economic drivers in this large region. The synthesis approach we use has three intermediate stand-alone synthesis objectives and one capstone synthesis integration – modeling – objective. We present our results on all of the above to date.

Presentation Type:  Poster

Session:  Theme 4: Human influence on global ecosystems   (Mon 4:30 PM)

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Poster Location ID: 22