Special issue «Environment change on the Mongolian plateau: atmosphere, forests, soils and water»
https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2019-1411
Abstract
The Mongolian Plateau forms a part of the Central Asian Plateau and covers an area of approximately 3,200,000 square kilometers in Mongolia and adjacent areas in China and Southern Siberia. It contains one of the world’s largest grassland areas, with the Gobi desert in the south and a transition via steppe and forest steppe to the taiga and mountain tundra in the North (Dulamsuren et al. 2005; Miao et al. 2015). Due to its location, the Plateau's climate is continental and semi-arid to arid, characterized by low precipitation (about 250 mm on average), high potential evapotranspiration (almost 1000 mm on average), large temperature amplitudes, long and harsh winters and recurrent droughts (Dorjgotov 2009; Liu et al. 2019). The Mongolian Plateau mostly drains into the Arctic Ocean basin, including the system of the Selenga River and Lake Baikal, which is not only the world's largest freshwater lake but also a natural heritage of global importance (Kasimov et al. 2017). Hydrologically, parts of the plateau also belong to the Pacific Ocean and Central Asian internal drainage basins.
Supporting agencies: This special issue contains selected papers from the Symposium on Environmental Science and Engineering organized by the German-Mongolian Institute for Resources and Technology (GMIT) and the FAO workshop Forestry genetic resources, management and adaption to climate changes. The organizers of this thematic issue would like to thank the sponsors of the conferences for the funding, which was provided by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) via Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), and the Czech Development Agency in the framework of the project Development of Forests and the Gene Pool of Local Forest Tree Ecotypes in Mongolia 2015-18 (Grant no. CzDA-RO-MN-2014-6-31210), respectively. The special issue was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project 17-29-05027)
About the Authors
Daniel Karthe
German-Mongolian Institute for Resources and Technology (GMIT)
Mongolia
Mongolia
2nd Khoroo, Nalaikh District, Ulaanbaatar
Sergey Chalov
Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Moscow
Russian Federation
Moscow
Alexander Gradel
International Forestry Consultancy Gradel
Germany
Bad Oeynhausen
Germany
Bad Oeynhausen
Antonín Kusbach
Mendel University in Brno (MENDELU)
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology,
Brno
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Karthe D., Chalov S., Gradel A., Kusbach A. Special issue «Environment change on the Mongolian plateau: atmosphere, forests, soils and water». GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY. 2019;12(3):60-65. https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2019-1411
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