Signature of spatiotemporal dynamics of encroaching vegetation in timberline ecotone of the Polar Urals region
Wenbo Zhou, PhD1, Valeriy Yu Ivanov2, Aleksey Y Sheshukov3, Valeriy Mazepa4, Stepan Shiyatov4, Jingfeng Wang5 and Desheng Liu6, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (3)Kansas State University, Biological & Agricultural Engineering, Manhattan, KS, United States, (4)Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia, (5)GA Ins of Tech-Civil & Env Eng, Atlanta, United States, (6)The Ohio State University, Department of Geography, Columbus, United States