Applicability of international indicators of land degradation neutrality estimation for Russian boreal forests

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In this paper, we analyze applicability of Land degradation neutrality (LDN) concept of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification for Russian boreal forests. In this regard, it is necessary to adapt the three global LDN indicators (land cover, land productivity, and carbon stocks) to the assessment of land degradation processes of boreal forests in Russia and around the world. The proposed study concludes that landscapes with different types of forest restoration dynamics can be viewed as the object in forest land dynamic studies. The proposed research also suggests the set of LDN indicators adapted for boreal forests conditions. In order to assess LDN proxies we calculated the retrospective and projected net carbon balance in the middle taiga zone of Noshulskoye forest domain (Komi Republic, Russia) using the CBM CFS model. Here we explored 3 scenarios of forest net carbon balance under the three different felling regimes. It was shown that the net carbon balance cannot be applied as an independent LDN indicator, since it does not take into account changes in species diversity and primary productivity. We also suggest that industrial felling should imitate natural types of restoration dynamics in order to achieve LDN targets. It can be reached through minimization of forest felling at sites with fireless types of succession, which accumulate maximum stocks of dead phytomass matter and serve as forest refuges supporting biodiversity.

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A. V. Ptichnikov

Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: dkarelin7@gmail.com
Russian Federation, 29, Staromonetny, Moscow, 119017

D. V. Karelin

Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Center of Forest Ecology and Productivity

Author for correspondence.
Email: dkarelin7@gmail.com
Russian Federation, 29, Staromonetny, Moscow, 119017; 117810, Moscow, Profsoyuznaya street, 84/32

V. M. Kotlyakov

Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: dkarelin7@gmail.com

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Russian Federation, 29, Staromonetny, Moscow, 119017

Y. A. Pautov

Silver Taiga Sustainable Development Fund

Email: dkarelin7@gmail.com
Russian Federation, 2, Kuratova street, Syktyvkar, Republic of Komi, 167000

A. Y. Borovlev

Silver Taiga Sustainable Development Fund

Email: dkarelin7@gmail.com
Russian Federation, 2, Kuratova street, Syktyvkar, Republic of Komi, 167000

D. A. Kuznetsova

Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: dkarelin7@gmail.com
Russian Federation, 29, Staromonetny, Moscow, 119017

D. G. Zamolodchikov

Center of Forest Ecology and Productivity

Email: dkarelin7@gmail.com
Russian Federation, 117810, Moscow, Profsoyuznaya street, 84/32

V. I. Grabovsky

Center of Forest Ecology and Productivity

Email: dkarelin7@gmail.com
Russian Federation, 117810, Moscow, Profsoyuznaya street, 84/32

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