Cumulative effects of rapid land-cover and land-use changes on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia

Eurasian Arctic Land Cover and Land Use in a Changing Climate

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 207-236

  Walker, Donald A ^a   Forbes, Bruce C ^b   Leibman, Marina O ^c   Epstein, Howard E ^d   Bhatt, Uma S ^a   Comiso, Josefino C ^e   Drozdov, Dmitri S ^b   Gubarkov, Anatoly A ^f   Jia, Gensuo J ^g   Kaarlejärvi, Elina ^h   Kaplan, Jed O ⁱ   Khomutov, Artem V ^f   Kofinas, Gary P ^a   Kumpula, Timo ^j   Kuss, Patrick ^k   Moskalenko, Natalia G ^c   Meschtyb, Nina A ^l   Pajunen, Anu ^b   Raynolds, Martha K ^a   Romanovsky, Vladimir E ^a   Stammler, Florian ^b   Yu, Qin ^d   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^c EARTH CRYOSPHERE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f TYUMEN INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^g INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^h UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ EPFL   (Switzerland)

^j UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^l INSTITUTE OF ETHNOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

more..

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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9118-5_9     Document Type: Chapter

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