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“Hot Spot Areas” of Forest Cover Changes in Boreal Eurasia IDENTIFICATION OF “HOT SPOT AREAS” OF FOREST COVER CHANGES IN BOREAL EURASIA Report edited by: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy World Resources Institute, Washington, US Greenpeace Russia, Moscow, Russian Federation Socio-Ecological Union, Moscow, Russian Federation EUROPEAN COMMISSION GLOBAL FOREST WATCH DIRECTORATE GENERAL Joint Research Centre Global Forest Watch Russia 2005 EUR 21684 EN INSIDE COVER IDENTIFICATION OF “HOT SPOT AREAS” OF FOREST COVER CHANGES IN BOREAL EURASIA Synthesis of the results of an expert consultation Edited by: Joint Research Centre, European Commission Frédéric Achard, Hans-Jürgen Stibig World Resources Institute Lars Laestadius, Volha Roshchanka Greenpeace Russia Alexey Yaroshenko Socio-Ecological Union Dmitry Aksenov Lead authors: 1. Introduction and objectives Frédéric Achard, Hans-Jürgen Stibig, Lars 2. Methodological approach Laestadius 3. Results of the expert consultation 3.1. General description of change processes Danilo Mollicone, Frédéric Achard, Alexey Yaroshenko, Hugh Eva 3.2. The European Russia region Hans-Jürgen Stibig, Alexey Yaroshenko, Dmitry Aksenov, Peter Potapov, René Beuchle 3.3. The Siberia and the Russian Far East region Danilo Mollicone, Nikolai Lashchinsky, Denis Smirnov, Frédéric Achard, René Beuchle 3.4. The Scandinavia and Chinese regions Tuomas Häme, Zengyuan Li, Håkan Olsson, Frédéric Achard 4. Testing automatic approaches over Russia 4.1. Use of Russian state forest account data to Dmitry Zamolodchikov determine “hot spot regions” 4.2. A spatial based approach for mapping Alexey Yaroshenko, Peter Potapov, Svetlana logging intensity in “accessible forests” Turubanova 4.3. Identifying hot spot areas in “intact forest Dmitry Aksenov , Alexey Egorov, Yelena landscapes” using satellite imagery Esipova, Mikhail Karpachevskiy, Anna Kostikova 5. Synthesis of the expert consultation Frédéric Achard, Hans-Jürgen Stibig, Lars 6. Conclusions Laestadius The full list of consulted experts is available in section 1.3. Identification of “hot spot areas” of forest cover changes in boreal Eurasia I LEGAL NOTICE Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission is responsible for the use which might be made of the following information. A great deal of additional information on the European Union is available on the Internet. It can be accessed through the Europa server (http://europa.eu.int) Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2005 © European Communities, 2005 Reproduction is authorized provided the source is acknowledged Printed in the European Union Identification of “hot spot areas” of forest cover changes in boreal Eurasia II Abstract A group of experts convened in Moscow in April 2004 at the invitation of the Joint Research Centre and the network of the Global Forest Watch Russia, aiming to identify and locate current and potential areas of rapid forest cover change in boreal Eurasia. This report presents the resulting “hot spot” maps of the boreal European and Siberian regions. The “hot spot areas” were delineated based on data uniquely available to the participants and experts, who were drawn from different parts of the country and were highly qualified and very knowledgeable about forestry activities and changes in forest cover. While this approach does not directly lead to quantified estimates of forest changes, it highlights in a regional context those areas where forest cover changes are concentrated and where close monitoring would be required for an estimation of the changes at continental scale. In addition to the mapping of areas of current or impending change in forest cover (the so-called “hot spot areas”), the group aimed to characterize the main drivers of these changes. During the months following the expert consultation the information compiled by the Russian experts’ was complemented with the help of a larger expert community in order to cover the boreal forest zone of the whole Eurasian continent. During the consultation, we also collected information on potential criteria for an automated delineation and stratification at a broad scale. Such information includes forestry statistics (status and trends), burned areas, access networks, etc. Information on the location of active fires, which can be derived from satellite Earth observation data, was considered a useful indicator for the Siberia region. The use of these spatial indicators should be further developed to allow a more automatic identification of hot spot areas in future spatial modelling exercises. It is understood that this information is subject to revision. The results of this study are considered to be an important initial step for the development of a new method of monitoring the boreal forest cover of the Eurasian continent. Identification of “hot spot areas” of forest cover changes in boreal Eurasia III List of Figures Figure 1: Major biomes of the World.........................................................................................................1 Figure 2: Group participants during second day of Moscow meeting ......................................................5 Figure 3: Map of forest-type change during the last twenty years in Russia............................................9 Figure 4: Satellite 3-D view of logging activities in Primorsky Kray along Japan Sea..........................11 Figure 5: Satellite view of exceptional fires in August 2002 in Siberia along the Lena River...............12 Figure 6: Fire activity during years 2002, 2003 and 2004.......................................................................13 Figure 7: Location of pipelines in Far East Siberia ................................................................................14 Figure 8: Location of hot spot areas in Western Eurasia........................................................................16 Figure 9: Regions where deciduous forests are re-growing on abandoned agricultural lands .............19 Figure 10: Location of hot spot areas in Central Siberia ........................................................................28 Figure 11: Location of hot spot areas in Far East Siberia......................................................................28 Figure 12: Percentage of clear-cut area to total forest area by region for year 2003 over Russia ........42 Figure 13: Relative changes of total forested area by regions of Russia between 1998 and 2003.........43 Figure 14: Steps in classifying forested areas by forest type ...................................................................46 Figure 15: Spatial criteria used for delineating “accessible forests”......................................................46 Figure 16: Map of “accessible forests” of the Russian Federation ........................................................47 Figure 17: Scheme for the analysis of logging intensity change.............................................................48 Figure 18: Logging intensity in 2000 in accessible forests......................................................................49 Figure 19: Relative change of logging intensity between 1996 and 2000...............................................49 Figure 20: Ratio of the logging intensity in 2000 to the average annual forest growth.........................50 Figure 21: Areas of main types of human disturbance in the vicinity of Intact Forest Landscapes .....53 Figure 22: Areas of human disturbance & burned areas in the vicinity of Intact Forest Landscapes .53 List of Tables Table 1: General stratification of the forest cover change processes in Western Russia .......................16 Table 2: Description of the change processes for each hot spot area in Western Russia.......................21 Table 3: Description of the change processes for each hot spot area in Siberia and the Far East........34 Table 4: Description of the change processes in each hot spot area for Scandinavia and China .........39 Table 5: The ten “hottest” regions of the Russian Federation................................................................44 Table 6: Spectral channels of the satellite data........................................................................................51 Table 7: Number of processed Landsat images........................................................................................51 Identification of “hot spot areas” of forest cover changes in boreal Eurasia IV Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES .........................................................................................1 1.1. BACKGROUND INFORMATION ......................................................................................................1 1.1.1. Forest resources in Boreal Eurasia ...................................................................................1 1.1.2. Forest monitoring research activities at JRC ....................................................................2 1.1.3. The Global Forest Watch initiative of WRI........................................................................2 1.2. OBJECTIVES OF THE EXPERT CONSULTATION...............................................................................3 1.3. EXPERTS INVOLVED IN THE CONSULTATION.................................................................................4 1.3.1. Moscow meeting.................................................................................................................4
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