post-ussr land cover change in eastern europe
DESCRIPTION
socioeconomic forcings, effects on biodiversity and future scenarios. Post-USSR land cover change in Eastern Europe. Volker Radeloff University of Wisconsin-Madison. Funded by A NEESPI Project. Background. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Post-USSR land cover change in Eastern EuropePost-USSR land cover change in Eastern Europe socioeconomic forcings, effects on biodiversity socioeconomic forcings, effects on biodiversity
and future scenariosand future scenarios
Volker Radeloff Volker Radeloff University of Wisconsin-MadisonUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Funded by Funded by A NEESPI Project A NEESPI Project
BackgroundBackground
Rapid land cover change in Eastern European since the breakdown of the USSR
Widespread agricultural abandonment followed by conversion to shrublands and forest
Agricultural area change from 1991 to 1997; USDA
BackgroundBackground
Socio-economic trends differ markedly among neighboring countries with similar ecological conditions
Change in nighttime lights 1993-2000. Yellow/red: more lights, blue: fewer lights, NOAA-NESDIS
BackgroundBackground
A ‘natural experiment’ in Eastern Europe allows to test hypotheses on the relative importance of environmental versus socioeconomic factors as controls and forcings of land cover and land cover change and thereby on biodiversity
ObjectivesObjectives
Monitor land cover and land use change (LCLUC) in Eastern Europe
Examine socioeconomic and political changes as forcing functions for LCLUC
Examine effects of LCLUC on biodiversity Simulate future LCLUC scenarios and examine
potential biodiversity effects
ObjectivesObjectives
Biodiversity
Socio-economics
Landcover
ApproachApproach
Current land cover from MODIS data Separating
plowed from fallow fields with spectral mixtureanalysis of MODISreflectance data
Landcover in the study area
ApproachApproach
Land cover change analysis with Landsat TM/ETM+ data
1985 to 2002 data
Landsat sample scenes
Poland
Hungary
Slovakia
Ukraine
N
20 0 20 40 60 Kilometers
Landsat TM Sep. 2000RGB: 4,5,3
Landsat TM1985-88
Classificationbased on TM & ETM+ data from 2000
Landsat TM/ETM+2000
state farms (until 1990)
Poland
Slovakia
ObjectivesObjectives
Biodiversity
Socio-economics
Landcover
ApproachApproach
Regression analysis to identify forcing and controls of LCLUC
Socioeconomic variables GDP, land ownership, urban markets,
employment, population, housing, and households, agricultural statistics, “country”
Environmental variables Climate, topography, soils
ApproachApproach
Hypothesis: Agricultural abandonment is controlled at broad scales by national economic and political conditions, and by climate patterns,and at fine scales by distance to urban markets, distance to major roads, topography, and soil quality
ObjectivesObjectives
Biodiversity
Socio-economics
Landcover
ApproachApproach
Wildlife habitat analysis for three species of conservation concern European Bison Saiga antelope Brown Bear
Umbrella speciesfor biodiversity
Radio-collared bison in the Slovak Carpathians, Dec. 2004
ApproachApproach
Radio-collar locationsas input for resource-selection functions
Habitat variables include land cover,fragmentation indices, and settlements
Saiga with satellite radio-collar
ApproachApproach
Radio-collar locationsas input for resource-selection functions
Habitat variables include land cover,fragmentation indices, and settlements
ApproachApproach
Bear data is collected from local hunting departments viaan ArcGIS server
This allows onlinedigitizing of bearactivity and easydata transfer
Arc/GIS server for bear mapping
ObjectivesObjectives
Biodiversity
Socio-economics
Landcover
TimelineTimeline
Year Milestones
2005 MODIS/TM image processing, socioeconomic data collecting, wildlife occurrence data collecting
2006 MODIS/TM image processing, regression LCLUC versus socioeconomics, habitat analysis
2007 Accuracy assessment, future scenarios simulations, journal articles, web page dissemination
CollaboratorsCollaborators
NGOs WWF Large Herbivore Foundation
Scientists L. Balciauskas, Vilnius University, Lithuania L. Baskin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow P. Hostert, and T. Kümmerle, Humboldt University A. Lushchekina, Russian MAB Program, Moscow K. Perzanowski, Polish Academy of Sciences W. Schröder, Technical University, Munich
Questions?Questions?
Biodiversity
Socio-economics
Landcover