Long-term agricultural land-cover change and potential for cropland expansion in the former Virgin Lands area of Kazakhstan

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Kraemer, Roland ^a,b   Prishchepov, Alexander V ^a,c   Müller, Daniel ^a,d   Kuemmerle, Tobias ^d   Radeloff, Volker C ^e   Dara, Andrey ^f   Terekhov, Alexey ^g   Frühauf, Manfred ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES IAMO   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f National Center for Space Research and Technologies   (Kazakhstan)

^g INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

agricultural abandonment; change detection; Kazakhstan; re cultivation; remote sensing; Soviet Union; Virgin Lands Campaign

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; EXPANSION; REMOTE SENSING;

AGRICULTURAL ABANDONMENTS; CHANGE DETECTION; KAZAKHSTAN; SOVIET UNION; VIRGIN LANDS CAMPAIGN;

CULTIVATION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LAND COVER; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND TYPE; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING;

KAZAKHSTAN; USSR;

EID: 84930667176     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/5/054012     Document Type: Article

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