Understanding the Impact of Desertification Progress on the Spread of Landscape Fires in the Stavropol Region
https://doi.org/10.26907/2542-064X.2023.3.486-498
Abstract
The satellite imagery of the eastern part of the Stavropol region (Russia) was processed and analyzed for the spatial and temporal spread of fires, both landscape and field ones, and open sand massifs. Moisture distribution, anthropogenic transformation of the territory, climatic trends, and livestock dynamics were assessed. The agricultural and climatic zones were considered to reconstruct the fire dynamics. No direct relationship was revealed between landscape fire progression and desertification site development. While the advance of open sands naturally prevents the spread of fires, it also contributes to a decrease in the population of large and small livestock. This, in turn, leads to an accumulation of the mortmass and results in a higher fire risk. Our findings show that the areas of open sands increased more than 20-fold from 2013 to 2022, while landscape and field fires tended to become less extensive.
Keywords
geoinformation analysis,
landscape fires,
remote sensing,
desertification,
open sands,
Stavropol region
Supporting agencies: This study was carried out as part of the state assignment to the Federal Research Center for Agroecology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (project no. 122020100405-9, “Cartographic Modeling of the State, Functioning, and Dynamics of the Processes in Deserted Territories Using Information Technologies”).
About the Author
V. V. Doroshenko
Federal Research Center for Agroecology, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Volgograd, 400062
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Doroshenko V.V. Understanding the Impact of Desertification Progress on the Spread of Landscape Fires in the Stavropol Region. Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta Seriya Estestvennye Nauki. 2023;165(3):486-498. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2542-064X.2023.3.486-498
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