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    Great Vasyugan Mire: How the world’s largest peatland helps addressing the world’s largest problems

    Peatlands cover 3% of the land, occur in 169 countries, and have—by sequestering 600 Gt of carbon—cooled the global climate by 0.6 °C. After a general review about peatlands worldwide, this paper describes the...

    Sergey N. Kirpotin, Olga A. Antoshkina, Alexandr E. Berezin, Samer Elshehawi in Ambio (2021)

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    The dynamic land-cover of the Altai Mountains: Perspectives based on past and current environmental and biodiversity changes

    We present climate-dependent changes in the high-mountain forest ecotone, old-growth forests, alpine phytocenoses, and deglaciated forelands in the Aktru glacial basin (Altai Republic, Russia). A number of ind...

    Igor V. Volkov, Valeriy A. Zemtsov, Alexander A. Erofeev, Andrey S. Babenko in Ambio (2021)

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    South-Siberian mountain mires: Perspectives on a potentially vulnerable remote source of biodiversity

    Changes in climate, land-use and pollution are having disproportionate impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity of arctic and mountain ecosystems. While these impacts are well-documented for many areas of the Ar...

    Irina I. Volkova, Terry V. Callaghan, Igor V. Volkov, Natalia A. Chernova in Ambio (2021)

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    Impacts of environmental change on biodiversity and vegetation dynamics in Siberia

    Biological diversity is the basis for, and an indicator of biosphere integrity. Together with climate change, its loss is one of the two most important planetary boundaries. A halt in biodiversity loss is one ...

    Sergey N. Kirpotin, Terry V. Callaghan, Anna M. Peregon, Andrei S. Babenko in Ambio (2021)