Biodiversity Category

List of Active NEESPI Projects:

1. Land use change, protected areas, and biodiversity in the Caucasus and Ural Mountains.
   
2. Human Impact on Land-cover Changes in the Heart of Asia.
   
3. Evaluation of habitat availability for large carnivores under a changing climate and disturbance regime: an Amur Tiger and Amur Leopard case study.
4. Functioning, biodiversity, ecological and resource potential of Siberian forests.
5. Enviro-RISKS: Man-induced Environmental Risks: Monitoring, Management and Remediation of Man-made Changes in Siberia.
6. Heterogeneity and resilience of human-rangifer system: A circumpolar social-ecological synthesis.
7. Post-socialist land use and land cover change in the Carpathians. Assessing the importance of socioeconomic and political factors on landscape dynamics and biodiversity.
8. Impacts of Climate and Land Use Change on Wildland Fire Frequency and the Amur Tiger.
9. Post-USSR land cover change in Eastern Europe: socioeconomic forcings, effects on biodiversity, and future scenarios.
10. Reindeer Mapper: A Remote Sensing and GIS-Based System to Bring Indigenous Traditional and Local Knowledge Together with Scientific Data and Information to Address Health Issues Resulting from Changes in Climate, Environment, Weather, and Pollution in Northern Russia.

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Heterogeneity and resilience of human-rangifer system: A circumpolar social-ecological synthesis.

Principal Investigator: Gary Kofinas (gary.kofinas@uaf.edu ), Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska - Fairbanks, USA
Co-Investigators: Brad Griffith, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska - Fairbanks, USA
Matt Berman, at Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska - Anchorage, USA
Collaborators: Gennady Belchansky, RAS Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow, Russia
David C. Douglas, Biological Science Office, USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Bruce Forbes, Arctic Center, Rovaniemi, Finland
Konstantin Klokov, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Leonid Kolpashnikov, Extreme North Agricultural Research Institute, Norilsk, Russia
Stephanie Martin, University of Alaska – Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Craig Nicholson, University of Massachusetts -Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Don Russell, Environment Canada, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada

Post-socialist land use and land cover change in the Carpathians. Assessing the importance of socioeconomic and political factors on landscape dynamics and biodiversity.

Principal Investigator: Patrick Hostert (patrick.hostert@geo.hu-berlin.de), Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany
Collaborators: Bogdan Zagajewski, Warsaw University, Poland
Volker Radeloff, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Kajetan Perzanowski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Daniel Müller, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany

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Impacts of Climate and Land Use Change on Wildland Fire Frequency and the Amur Tiger.

Principal Investigator: Tatyjana Loboda (tloboda@hermes.geog.umd.edu ), University of Maryland, Department of Geography, USA
Co-Investigator: Chris Justice, University of Maryland, Department of Geography, USA

Post-USSR land cover change in Eastern Europe: socioeconomic forcings, effects on biodiversity, and future scenarios.

Principal Investigator: Volker C. Radeloff (radeloff@wisc.edu), University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Collaborators: Leonid Baskin, RAS Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russia
Linas Balciaukas, Institute of Ecology, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Anna Lushchekina, Russian Man and Biosphere Committee and RAS Severtsov
Institute for Ecology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Patrick Hostert, Humboldt University, Germany
Kajetan Perzanowski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Reindeer Mapper: A Remote Sensing and GIS-Based System to Bring Indigenous Traditional and Local Knowledge Together with Scientific Data and Information to Address Health Issues Resulting from Changes in Climate, Environment, Weather, and Pollution in Northern Russia.

Principal Investigator: Nancy G. Maynard, (Nancy.G.Maynard@nasa.gov) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Co-Investigator: Boris S. Yurchak, University of Maryland - College Park, USA
Collaborators: Yuri Sleptsov, Ethno-Ecological Center "Garpanga", Yakutsk, Russia
A. Polezhaev, Institute of the Biological Problems of the North, Magadan, Russia
Svein D. Mathiesen, Nordic Sami Institute, Kautokeino, Norway
Johan Mathis Turi, Association of World Reindeer Herders, World Reindeer Herders Center, Tromso, Norway

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Functioning, biodiversity, ecological and resource potential of Siberian forests
    Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Principal Investigator: Evgeney A. Vaganov (institute@forest.akadem.ru), RAS Institute of Forest Studies, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

Enviro-RISKS: Man-induced Environmental Risks: Monitoring, Management and Remediation of Man-made Changes in Siberia     Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Principal Investigator: Alexander Baklanov (alb@dmi.dk), Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

Evaluation of habitat availability for large carnivores under a changing climate and disturbance regime: an Amur Tiger and Amur Leopard case study.

Human Impact on Land-cover Changes in the Heart of Asia.
Principal Investigator: Igor Okladnikov (oig@scert.ru), Siberian Center for Environmental research and Training, Tomsk, Russia
Collaborators:Olga Krankina (olga.krankina@oregonstate.edu), Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
Renchin Tsolmon (tsolmon@num.edu.mn), National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Land use change, protected areas, and biodiversity in the Caucasus and Ural Mountains.

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