The Effect of Historical and Regional Features of Land Use on the Size and Structure of Carbon Pools in the Southern Taiga and Forest-Steppe Zones of European Russia

Чернова, О. В.; Рыжова, И. М.; Podvezennaya, M. A.

doi:10.1134/s106422931804004x

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“…The cropland area in modern Russia accounted for 8.11% of the total arable land area in 2015 in the world . A number of studies have reconstructed historical cropland areas and assessed their impact on carbon emissions in ETR (Tomson et al, 2015;Novenko et al, 2017;Chernova et al, 2018;Kukushkina et al, 2018). However, these studies encompassed only some small areas, and covered the period since the last quarter of the 18th century when historical documents about cropland cover are relatively plentiful, which limited the environmental effects of LUCC study for a long time period and a broad scale.…”

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Reconstruction of cropland area in the European part of Tsarist Russia from 1696 to 1914 based on historical documents

Zhao

Fang

et al. 2020

J. Geogr. Sci.

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To evaluate the climatic and ecological impacts of anthropogenic activities in global change research, it is essential to reconstruct historical land use and land cover change on regional and global scales. In this study, we reconstructed cropland areas for 54 provinces within the European part of Tsarist Russia (ETR) over the periods of 1696-1914 using historical data, including cropland area, population, grain consumption, and grain yield per unit area. The main results are as follows. (1) Total cropland areas and fractional cropland areas of ETR for 8 time sections during 1696-1914 were reconstructed, the former increased from 31.98×10 4 km 2 to 147.40×10 4 km 2 , and the latter increased from 7.89% to 29.20%. The per capita cropland area decreased from 0.0246 km 2 to 0.0113 km 2 during 1696-1914. (2) Cropland expanded from the central and southwestern ETR to the black soil region, surrounding area of the Volga River, Ukraine region, the new Russia region, the vicinity of Ural, and north Caucasus region. (3) The expansion of territory, increase and migration of population, policies related to agricultural development and foreign trade, and the impacts of climate change were the reasons for the changes in cropland within ETR from 1696 to 1914. (4) In 1914, the cropland area and fractional cropland area of each province varied from 0.16×10 4 km 2 and 0.76% to 5.65×10 4 km 2 and 76.68%, respectively. (5) The comparisons show that the cropland areas of ETR in this study for 1696-1914 are higher than those in the HYDE 3.2 dataset. The main reason for this finding might be the underestimation of per capita cropland areas in the HYDE 3.2 dataset, which values remained at approximately 0.01 km 2 from 1700 to 1920.

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Reconstruction of cropland area in the European part of Tsarist Russia from 1696 to 1914 based on historical documents

Zhao

Fang

et al. 2020

J. Geogr. Sci.

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Faster topsoil organic matter transformation accompanies long-term carbon preservation in virgin Chernozems

Yurova,

Smirnova,

Kozlov

et al. 2025

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Historical trends in the amount and structure of organic carbon stocks in natural and managed ecosystems in European Russia

Чернова

Рыжова

Podvezennaya

2020

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Contemporary (corresponding to the modern state of ecosystems and land use) and prehistoric (for hypothetic intact natural ecosystems similar to modern virgin ecosystems) stocks of organic carbon were assessed for model regions of southern taiga, forest-steppe and steppe in European Russia. The comparison of these stocks enabled an assessment of the integral result of the multidirectional changes in land use that occurred in the studied regions over the historical period. The carbon stocks were determined using a unified cartographic basis, data on taxonomy and texture of soil units, modern land use types and the type and age structure of reconstructed and contemporary vegetation. The results obtained indicate that the modern carbon pool has reduced by 24% compared to the potential prehistoric one in the Kostroma Region and Rostov Region (southern taiga and steppe zones, respectively) and by 37% in the Kursk Region (forest-steppe zone). It was also demonstrated that the contribution of soil to the total organic carbon stock increases southwards, from southern taiga to dry steppe, from 51 to 95% during the prehistoric period and from 62 to 96% currently. The study results show that forestry and agriculture increase the contribution of soil to maintaining the region’s carbon budget.

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The Effect of Historical and Regional Features of Land Use on the Size and Structure of Carbon Pools in the Southern Taiga and Forest-Steppe Zones of European Russia

Cited by 6 publications

References 25 publications

Reconstruction of cropland area in the European part of Tsarist Russia from 1696 to 1914 based on historical documents

Reconstruction of cropland area in the European part of Tsarist Russia from 1696 to 1914 based on historical documents

Faster topsoil organic matter transformation accompanies long-term carbon preservation in virgin Chernozems

Historical trends in the amount and structure of organic carbon stocks in natural and managed ecosystems in European Russia

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