Palaeoenvironmental records from Siberia and the Russian Far East - contributions from DIMA Network members - Introduction
Palaeoenvironmental records from Siberia and the Russian Far East - contributions from DIMA Network members - Introduction
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西伯利亚和俄罗斯远东地区的古环境记录 - DIMA 网络成员的贡献 - 简介
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Edwards M
随着人们越来越关注气候变化对北方地区的影响，古环境科学的一个重要目标是将似乎是前所未有的事件-例如近年来严重的北方森林火灾（Witze等人，2020年）-置于长期背景下。北方森林区覆盖了从受多年冻土影响的北方树线到草原和多样化的混合温带森林的南部边界的大跨度纬度。世界上三分之二以上的北方森林和北方陆地碳库的三分之一位于俄罗斯境内，其中大部分位于乌拉尔山脉以东、西伯利亚和俄罗斯远东地区（Kuusela 1992年，Stolbovoi 2002年）。随着人们越来越意识到该地区对气候变化的敏感性，很明显，这片广袤的土地没有得到充分的研究。现在与俄罗斯科学院有联系的科学中心在SRFE有着长期的开创性研究历史，尽管在偏远地区工作的后勤工作复杂，但这些机构继续提供令人印象深刻的新数据。然而，问题是，主要由于语言限制（即需要以英文向国际读者发表，而大多数读者无法阅读在高质量的俄罗斯科学期刊上发表的论文），国际社会无法获得很大一部分研究成果。国际研究合作可以为更好地传播俄罗斯的研究成果提供一个途径（例如，贝加尔湖和埃尔吉格特琴湖钻探项目，ICDP 2020 a，B），但许多其他国家资助的项目不属于这些合资企业。
As concern about the effects of climate change on northern regions increases, an important goal of palaeoenvironmental science is placing events that appear to be unprecedented—such as the severe boreal forest fires of recent years (Witze et al. 2020)—into a long-term context. The boreal forest zone covers a large span of latitude from the permafrost-affected northern treeline to the southern border with steppe and the diverse mixed temperate forest. Over two thirds of the world’s boreal forest and about a third of the northern hemisphere terrestrial carbon pool lies within Russian territory, and much of this is east of the Ural Mountains, in Siberia and the Russian Far East (SRFE) (Kuusela 1992, Stolbovoi 2002). With the awareness of the region’s sensitivity to climate change growing, it is clear that this vast expanse is understudied. Scientific centres, now associated with the Russian Academy of Sciences, have long histories of pioneering research in SRFE, and there continues to be an impressive flow of new data from these institutions, despite complex logistics of working in remote locations. A problem, however, is that a large proportion of this research is not available to the international community, primarily because of language limitations (i.e. the need to publish in English for the international audience and the inability of most of that audience to read papers published in high quality Russian scientific journals). International research cooperation can provide an avenue for greater dissemination of Russian research (for example, the Lake Baikal and Lake El’gygytgyn drilling projects, ICDP 2020a, b), but many other nationally funded projects fall outside these joint ventures.