S. P. Davydov

TL;DR: It is shown that climate has been a major driver of population change over the past 50,000 years, however, each species responds differently to the effects of climatic shifts, habitat redistribution and human encroachment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize regional in situ observations of CO2 flux from Arctic and boreal soils to assess current and future winter carbon losses from the northern permafrost domain.

TL;DR: Results indicate that understory vegetation likely exerts a strong influence on vegetation indices in these ecosystems, and suggests that positive decadal trends in NDVI in Siberian larch forests may correspond primarily to increases in understory productivity, or even to declines in forest cover.

TL;DR: For a long time, Ursus (Spelearctos) spp. were believed to be almost purely European animals and their geographic range has recently been extended to the east, in southern Siberia, Transbaikalia, Kirghizia, Mongolia and Korea as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: This study examines small-scale heterogeneity in soil thermal properties and ecosystem carbon and water fluxes associated with varying understory vegetation in open-canopy larch forests in northeastern Siberia to highlight relationships between vegetation and soil thermal dynamics in permafrost ecosystems.