Eurasian Arctic Land Cover and Land Use in a Changing Climate

1. Introduction: Climate and Land-Cover Changes in the Arctic
Pavel Groisman, Garik Gutman, Anni Reissell

2. Recent Changes in Arctic Vegetation: Satellite Observations and Simulation Model Predictions
Scott J. Goetz, Howard E. Epstein, Uma S. Bhatt, Gensuo J. Jia, Jed O. Kaplan, Heike Lischke, Qin Yu, Andrew Bunn, Andrea H. Lloyd, Domingo Alcaraz-Segura, Pieter S.A. Beck, Josefino C. Comiso, Martha K. Raynolds, Donald A. Walker

3. High-Latitude Forest Cover Loss in Northern Eurasia, 2000–2005
Peter V. Potapov, Matthew C. Hansen, Stephen V. Stehman

4. Characterization and Monitoring of Tundra-Taiga Transition Zone with Multi-sensor Satellite Data
Guoqing Sun, Kenneth J. Ranson, Viatcheslav I. Kharuk, Sergey T. Im, Mukhtar M. Naurzbaev

5. Vegetation Cover in the Eurasian Arctic: Distribution, Monitoring, and Role in Carbon Cycling
Olga N. Krankina, Dirk Pflugmacher, Daniel J. Hayes, A. David McGuire, Matthew C. Hansen, Tuomas Häme, Vladimir Elsakov, Peder Nelson

6. The Effects of Land Cover and Land Use Change on the Contemporary Carbon Balance of the Arctic and Boreal Terrestrial Ecosystems of Northern Eurasia
Daniel J. Hayes, A. David McGuire, David W. Kicklighter, Todd J. Burnside, Jerry M. Melillo

7. Interactions Between Land Cover/Use Change and Hydrology
Alexander I. Shiklomanov, Theodore J. Bohn, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Richard B. Lammers, Peter Romanov, Michael A. Rawlins, Jennifer C. Adam

8. Impacts of Arctic Climate and Land Use Changes on Reindeer Pastoralism: Indigenous Knowledge and Remote Sensing
Nancy G. Maynard, Anders Oskal, Johan M. Turi, Svein D. Mathiesen, Inger Marie G. Eira, Boris Yurchak, Vladimir Etylin, Jennifer Gebelein

9. Cumulative Effects of Rapid Land-Cover and Land-Use Changes on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia
Donald A. Walker, Bruce C. Forbes, Marina O. Leibman, Howard E. Epstein, Uma S. Bhatt, Josefino C. Comiso, Dmitri S. Drozdov, Anatoly A. Gubarkov, Gensuo J. Jia, Elina Kaarlejärvi, Jed O. Kaplan, Artem V. Khomutov, Gary P. Kofinas, Timo Kumpula, Patrick Kuss, Natalia G. Moskalenko, Nina A. Meschtyb, Anu Pajunen, Martha K. Raynolds, Vladimir E. Romanovsky, Florian Stammler, Qin Yu

10. Interactions of Arctic Aerosols with Land-Cover and Land-Use Changes in Northern Eurasia and their Role in the Arctic Climate System
Irina N. Sokolik, Judith Curry, Vladimir Radionov

11. Interaction Between Environmental Pollution and Land-Cover/Land-Use Change in Arctic Areas
John Derome†, Natalia Lukina

12. Summary and Outstanding Scientific Challenges for Land-Cover and Land-Use Research in the Arctic Region
Garik Gutman, Chris O. Justice

Nyckelord: Geography, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Biogeosciences, Terrestial Ecology, Social Sciences, general