Novel Methods for Monitoring and Managing Land and Water Resources in Siberia

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Land and Water Resources of Siberia, Their Functioning and Ecological State....Pages 3-73
Status Report About Understanding, Monitoring and Controlling Landscape Processes in Siberia....Pages 75-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Methods for Monitoring the Chemical Composition of Lake Baikal Water....Pages 113-132
Microbiological Monitoring of Lake Baikal....Pages 133-155
Developing the Regional Indicator Indexes of Zooplankton for Water Quality Class Determination of Water Bodies in Siberia....Pages 157-183
Measuring and Estimating Fluxes of Carbon, Major and Trace Elements to the Arctic Ocean....Pages 185-212
Measuring Snowmelt in Siberia: Causes, Process, and Consequences....Pages 213-231
Estimation of Biomass and Net Primary Production (NPP) in West Siberian Boreal Ecosystems: In Situ and Remote Sensing Methods....Pages 233-252
GIS and Remote Sensing Data-Based Methods for Monitoring Water and Soil Objects in the Steppe Biome of Western Siberia....Pages 253-268
Significant Siberian Vegetation Change is Inevitably Brought on by the Changing Climate....Pages 269-285
Evaluating the Agroclimatic Potential of Central Siberia....Pages 287-305
Probabilistic Assessment of Contemporary Soil Evolution in the South of Western Siberia Based on Analysis of Soil Monitoring Data....Pages 307-324
Front Matter....Pages 325-325
Study of the Suitability of NIR Spectroscopy for Monitoring the Contamination of Soils with Oil Products....Pages 327-343
Emerging Measurement Methods for Soil Hydrological Studies....Pages 345-363
Methods for Measuring Water and Solute Balances in Forest Ecosystems....Pages 365-385
Using the Innovative Lysimeter Technology in the German–Russian Research Project “KULUNDA”....Pages 387-399
Measuring Major Components of the Terrestrial Carbon Balance....Pages 401-423
Assessment and Measurement of Wind Erosion....Pages 425-449
Multi-Scale Vegetation and Water Body Mapping of the Northern Latitudes in Siberia with Optical Remote Sensing....Pages 451-470
Multi-Source Data Integration and Analysis for Land Monitoring in Siberia....Pages 471-487
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Analytical and Cartographic Predictive Modeling of Arable Land Productivity....Pages 489-502
Simulating Temperature Impacts on Crop Production Using MONICA....Pages 503-518
A Spatial Model-Based Decision Support System for Evaluating Agricultural Landscapes Under the Aspect of Climate Change....Pages 519-540
Monitoring of Soil Fertility (Agroecological Monitoring)....Pages 541-561
The International Soil Classification System WRB, Third Edition, 2014....Pages 563-571
An Emerging Method of Rating Global Soil Quality and Productivity Potentials....Pages 573-595
Small-Scale Soil Functional Mapping of Crop Yield Potentials in Germany....Pages 597-617
Balance of Nutrients and the Optimization of Their Use in Agroecosystems of the Russian Federation....Pages 619-633
Assessing and Controlling Land Use Impacts on Groundwater Quality....Pages 635-665
Principles of Conservation Agriculture in Continental Steppe Regions....Pages 667-679
Modern Cropping Systems and Technologies for Soil Conservation in Siberian Agriculture....Pages 681-715
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Potential of Applying Novel Monitoring and Management Methods to Siberian Landscapes....Pages 719-760