Publications

This is a list of past publications from related projects and research in the Russian arctic. Publications arising from the current project will also appear here.

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2009

Hugelius, G., & Kuhry, P. (2009) Landscape partitioning and environmental gradient analyses of soil organic carbon in a permafrost environment. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 23 GB3006.
doi icon 10.1029/2008GB003419

Repo, M.E., Susiluoto, S., Lind, S.E., Jokinen, S., Elsakov, V., Biasi, C., Virtanen, T. & Martikainen, P.J. (2009) Large N2O emissions from cryoturbated peat soil in tundra. Nature Geoscience Online Feb 15th 2009.
doi icon 10.1038/ngeo434


2008

Rinke, A. & Dethloff, K. (2008) Simulated circum-Arctic climate changes by the end of the 21st century. Global and Planetary Change 62(1-2): 173-186.
doi icon 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.01.004

Rinke, A., Kuhry, P. & Dethloff, K. (2008) Soil organic layer: Importance for Arctic climate. Geophysical Research Letters 35 (L13709)
doi icon 10.1029/2008GL034052

Rinke, A., Melsheimer, C., Dethloff, K. & Heygster, G. (2008) Arctic total water vapor: Comparison of regional climate simulations with observations and simulated decadal trends. Journal of Hydrometeorology In Press.
doi icon 10.1175/2008JHM970.1

Solovieva, N., Jones, V.J., Birks, J.H.B., Appleby, P. & Nazarova, L. (2008) Diatom responses to 20th century climate warming in lakes from the northern Urals, Russia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 259:96-106.
doi icon 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.10.001


2007

Ponomarev, V.I. (2007) First workshop of the project 'Quantifying the carbon budget in Northern Russia: past, present and future (CARBO-North)' Vestnik of the Institute of Biology 3(113): 26-28. (In Russian)


2006

Bobkova, K.S., Tuzhilkina, V. & Kuzin, S. (2006) Carbon Cycle in Spruce Ecosystems of the Northern Taiga Subzone. Russian Journal of Ecology 37(1): 19-27.
doi icon 10.1134/S1067413606010048

Holzkämper, S. & Kuhry, P. (2006) Reconstruction of past climate changes in the arctic regions of Russia and Canada. Reports on Polar and Marine Research 520: 58-61.

Saha, S.K., Rinke, A., Dethloff, K. & Kuhry, P. (2006) The influence of a complex land-surface scheme on Arctic climate simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research 111: D22104
doi icon 10.1029/2006JD007188

Tuzhilkina, V.V. (2006) Carbon Dioxide Exchange in the Photosynthetic Apparatus of Trees in a Mature Spruce Phytocenosis of the Northern Taiga Subzone. Russian Journal of Ecology 37(2): 84-89.
doi icon 10.1134/S1067413606020032

Väliranta, M. (2006) Long-term Changes in Aquatic Plant Species Composition in Northeastern European Russia and Finnish Lapland, as evidenced by plant macrofossil analysis. Aquatic Botany 85: 224-232.
doi icon 10.1016/j.aquabot.2006.05.003

Väliranta, M., Kultti, S. & Seppä, H. (2006) Vegetation Dynamics during the Younger Dryas-Holocene Transition in the Extreme Northern Taiga Zone, Northeastern European Russia. Boreas 35(2): 202-212.
doi icon 10.1080/03009480500456057

Virtanen, T. & Kuhry, P. (2006) Comparison of a regional Landsat image based land cover classification to global data sets in Northeast European Russia. Reports on Polar and Marine Research 520: 133-138.

Walker, T.R. & Pystina, T.N. (2006) The use of lichens to monitor terrestrial pollution and ecological impacts caused by oil and gas industries in the Pechora Basin, Russia. Herzogia 19: 229-238.

Walker, T.R., Crittenden, P.D., Young, S.D. & Prystina, P. (2006) An assessment of pollution impacts due to the oil and gas industries in the Pechora basin, north-eastern European Russia. Ecological Indicators 6(2): 369-387.
doi icon 10.1016/j.ecolind.2005.03.015

Walker, T.R., Habeck, J.O., Karjalainen, T.P., Virtanen, T., Solovieva, N., Jones, V., Kuhry, P., Ponomarev, V.I., Mikkola, K., Nikula, A., Patova, E., Crittenden, P.D., Young, S.D. & Ingold, T. (2006) Perceived and measured levels of environmental pollution: interdisciplinary research in the subarctic lowlands of northeast European Russia. Ambio 35(5): 220-228.
doi icon 10.1579/06-A-127R.1


2005

Koster, E., Dankers, R. & van der Linden, S. (2005) Water Balance Modelling of (Sub-)Arctic Rivers and Freshwater Supply to the Barents Sea Basin. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 16(3): 249-259.
doi icon 10.1002/ppp.510

Kuhry, P., Ponomarev, V.I. & Habeck, J.O. (eds) (2005) Stakeholder summary of the SPICE project. Syktyvkar.

Oksanen, P.O. (2005) Development of palsa mires on the northern European continent in relation to Holocene climatic and environmental changes. PhD thesis. Acta Universitatis Oulensis, A446.

Solovieva, N., Jones, V.J., Birks, H.J.B., Grytnes, J-A., Appleby, P.G., Nazarova, L., Brooks, S.J., Renberg, I., Kauppila, T., Kondratenok, B. & Ponomarev, V. (2005) Palaeolimnological evidence for recent climate change in lakes from the northern Urals, Russia. Journal of Paleolimology 33(4): 463-482.
doi icon 10.1007/s10933-005-0811-3

Walker, T. R. & Pystina, T.N. (2005) The first record of Ramalina obtusata in the Komi Republic, north-eastern European Russia. Graphis Scripta 17: 48-51.

Walker, T.R. (2005) Comparison of Anthropogenic Metal Deposition Rates with Excess Soil Loading from Coal, Oil and Gas Industries in the Usa River Basin, NW Russia. Polish Polar Research 26(4): 299-314.


2004

Heikkinen, J.E.P., Virtanen, T., Huttunen, J.T., Elsakov, V. & Martikainen, P.J. (2004) Carbon balance in East European tundra. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 18: GB1023.
doi icon 10.1029/2003GB002054

Karjalainen, T.P. & Habeck, J.O. (2004) When "the Environment" Comes to Visit: Local Environmental Knowledge in the Far North of Russia. Environmental Values 13: 167-186.

Karjalainen, T.P. (2004) The environment in the contexts: environmental concern in the Komi Republic (Russia). PhD thesis. Acta Universitatis Oulensis, E85.

Kultti, S. (2004) Holocene changes in treelines and climate from Ural Mountains to Finnish Lapland. PhD thesis, University of Helsinki.

Kultti, S., Väliranta, M. & Oksanen, P.O. (2004) Multiproxy record of Holocene environmental change in the Nenets region, East-European Russian Arctic. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 41: 1141-1158.

Mazhitova, G.G., Karstkarel, N., Oberman, N.G., Romanovsky, V. & Kuhry, P. (2004) Permafrost and infrastructure in the Usa Basin (Northeast European Russia): possible impacts of global warming. Ambio 33(6): 289-294.
doi icon 10.1639/0044-7447(2004)033[0289%3APAIITU]2.0.CO;2

Virtanen, T., Mikkola, K. & Nikula, A. (2004): Satellite image based vegetation classification of a large area using limited ground reference data: a case study in the Usa Basin, north-east European Russia. Polar Research 23(1): 51-66.
doi icon 10.1111/j.1751-8369.2004.tb00129.x

Virtanen, T., K. Mikkola, A. Nikula, J. H. Christensen, G. G. Mazhitova, N. G. Oberman and P. Kuhry. (2004) Modeling the location of the forest line in NE European Russia with remote sensed vegetation and GIS-based climate and terrain data. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 36(3): 314-322.


2003

Habeck, J.O., 2003. What it means to be a herdsman: the practice and image of reindeer husbandry among the Komi of northern Russia. PhD thesis, University of Cambridge.

Heikkinen, J.E.P. (2003) Carbon Balance of the Arctic Wetlands in Europe. PhD thesis, University of Kuopio.

Kultti, S., Väliranta, M., Sarmaja-Korjonen, K., Solovieva, N., Virtanen, T., Kauppila, T. & Eronen, M. (2003) Palaeoecological evidence of changes in vegetation and climate during the Holocene in the pre-Polar Urals, Northeast European Russia. Journal of Quaternary Science 18(6): 503-520.

Mazhitova, G.G., Kazakov, V.G., Lopatin, E.V. & Virtanen, T. (2003) Geographic Information System and Soil Carbon Estimates for the Usa River Basin, Komi Republic. Eurasian Soil Science 36(2): 123–135.

Oberman, N.G. & Mazhitova, G.G. (2003) Permafrost mapping of Northeast European Russia based on the period of climatic warming 1970-1995. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography 57(2): 111-120.

Oksanen P.O., Kuhry, P. & Alekseeva, R.N. (2003) Holocene development and permafrost history of the Usinsk Mire, Northeast European Russian. Geographie Physique et Quaternaire 57(2-3): 169-187.

Rusanova, G.V. & Kuhry, P. (2003) (in Russian) Buried soils and pedorelicts in the Usa River Basin (Bol'shezemel'skaya Tundra). Pochvovedenie 1: 23-32. Translated by journal into English. Eurasian Soil Science 1: 21-31.

Sarmaja-Korjonen, K., Kultti, S., Väliranta, M. & Solovieva, N. (2003) Mid-Holocene palaeoclimatic and palaeohydrological conditions in norteastern European Russia: a multi-proxy study of Lake Vankavad. Journal of Paleolimnology 30(4): 415-426.
doi icon 10.1023/B:JOPL.0000007232.78172.97

Väliranta, M., Kaakinen, A. & Kuhry, P. (2003) Holocene climate and landscape evolution East of the Pechora Delta, East-European Russian Arctic. Quaternary Research 59: 335-344.
doi icon 10.1016/S0033-5894(03)00041-3

Van der Linden, S. & Christensen, J.H. (2003) Improved hydrological modeling for remote regions using a combination of observed and simulated precipitation data. Journal of Geophysical Research 108(D2): 4072-4083.

Van der Linden, S., Virtanen, T., Oberman, N. & Kuhry, P. (2003) Sensitivity analysis of the discharge in the Arctic Usa Basin, East-European Russia. Climatic Change 57: 139-161.

Walker, T.R. (2003) Terrestrial Pollution in the Pechora Basin, northeastern European Russia. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Walker, T.R., Crittenden, P.D. & Young S.D. (2003) Regional variation in the chemical composition of winter snow pack and terricolous lichens in relation to sources of acid emissions in the Usa River basin, northeastern European Russia. Environmental Pollution 125: 401-412.
doi icon 10.1016/S0269-7491(03)00080-0

Walker, T.R., Young, S.D., Crittenden, P.D. & Zhang, H. (2003) Anthropogenic metal enrichment of snow and soil in northeastern European Russia. Environmental Pollution 121(1): 11-21.
doi icon 10.1016/S0269-7491(02)00212-9


2002

Habeck, J.O. (2002) The future prospects for reindeer husbandry in Russia. In 'Reindeer as a keystone species in the North - biological, cultural and socio-economic aspects: Proceedings of the 1st CAES PhD Course, 1-15 September 2000, northern Finland, Finnmark, Norway, and Kola Peninsula, Russia, pp. 44-54', edited by Soppela, P., W. Ruth, B. Ahman and J. Å Riseth. Rovaniemi, Arctic Centre Reports, 38.

Habeck, J.O. (2002) How to turn a reindeer pasture into an oil well, and vice versa: transfer of land, compensation and reclamation in the Komi Republic. In 'People and the land: pathways to reform in post-Soviet Siberia', edited by E. Kasten. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 125-147.

Habeck, J.O. (2002) Vi gør vores arbejde og de gør deres arbejde: Rendrift og olieproduktion i det Nordøstlige Europa (Komiernes og nenetsernes regioner). In 'Tundraens og tajgaens folk: En antropologisk, religionssociologisk, folkloristisk og biologisk fremstilling af de russiske urfolks situation i dag, pp. 45-58', edited by Oreskov, C. København, INFONOR.

Harding, R., Kuhry, P., Christensen, T.R., Sykes, M.T., Dankers R. & van der Linden, S. (2002) Climate feedbacks at the taiga/tundra interface. Ambio Special Report 12: 47-55.

Heikkinen, J.E.P., Elsakov V. & Martikainen, P.J. (2002) Carbon dioxide and methane dynamics and annu8al carbon balance in tundra wetland in NE Europe, Russia. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 16(4): 1115.
doi icon 10.1029/2002GB001930

Huisink, M., de Moor, J.J.W., Kasse, C. & Virtanen, T. (2002) Factors influencing periglacial fluvial morphology in the northern European Russian tundra and taiga. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 27(11): 1223-1235.

Karjalainen, T.P. & Järvikoski, T. (2002) Ekologicheskoe soznanie i voprosy politiki v Respublike Komi (Environmental awareness and political issues in the Komi Republic). In 'Russia in the Global Context. The articles of Russian sociologists for the participants of The Forum of Russia in the XVth ISA World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane, Australia 7-13, 2002', edited by G. P. Bessokirnaja, E. G. Meshkova, E. I. Pronina, T. N. Sidorova and L. I. Shcherbich. Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.

Kuhry, P., Mazhitova, G., Forest, P.A., Deneva, S., Virtanen, T. & Kultti, S. (2002) Upscaling soil carbon estimates for the Usa Basin (Northeast European Russia) using GIS-based landcover and soil classification schemes. Danish Journal of Geography 102: 11-25.

Rees, G., Brown, I., Mikkola, K., Virtanen, T. & Werkman, B. (2002) How can the dynamics of the tundra-taiga boundary be remotely monitored? Ambio Special Report 12: 56-62.

Solovieva, N. & Jones, V.J. (2002) A multiproxy record of Holocene environmental changes in central Kola Peninsula, northwest Russia. Journal of Quaternary Science 17(4): 303-318.

Solovieva, N., Jones, V.J., Dauvalter, V., Appleby, P.G. & Kondratenok, B. (2002) Extent, environmental impact and long-term trends in atmospheric contamination in the Usa Basin of the East-European Russian Arctic. Water Air and Soil Pollution 139: 237-260.
doi icon 10.1023/A:1015812109207

Van der Linden, S. (2002) Icy rivers heating up. Modelling hydrological impacts of climate change in the (sub)arctic. PhD thesis, University of Utrecht.

Virtanen, T., Mikkola, K., Patova, E. & Nikula, A. (2002) Satellite image analysis of human caused changes in the tundra vegetation around the city of Vorkuta, North European Russia. Environmental Pollution 120: 647-658.
doi icon 10.1016/S0269-7491(02)00186-0

Virtanen, T., Mikkola, K. & Nikula, A. (2002) Spatial structure of the timberline landscape and its relation to climate and permafrost in the Usa Basin, NW Russia. In 'Northern timberline forests: environmental and sosioeconomic issues and concerns', edited by Kankaanpää, S., L. Müller-Wille, P. Susiluoto and M.L. Sutinen. Research Papers of the Finnish Forest Research Institute, 862: 91-95.


2001

Habeck, J.O. [Khabek, I. O.] (2001) Olenevodstvo i neftegazodobycha: Mogut li oni sosushchestvovat' ? In 'Etnosotsial'nye protsessy v Sibiri: Tematicheskii sbornik, vypusk 4, pp. 90-92', edited by Popkov, Yu. V. Novosibirskii Gosudarstvennyi Universitet.

Karjalainen, T.P. (2001) Institutional framing of environmental policy in the Komi Republic. In 'The struggle for Russian environmental policy', edited by I. Massa and V-P. Tynkkynen. Kikimora Publications, Helsinki. pp 77-106.

Oberman, N.G. & Mazhitova G.G. (2001) Permafrost dynamics in the Northeast of European Russia at the end of the 20th century. Norsk Geografisk Tidsrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography 55(4): 241-244.

Oksanen P.O., Kuhry, P. & Alekseeva, R.N. (2001) Holocene development of the Rogovaya peat plateau, East-European Russian Arctic. The Holocene 11(1): 25-40.

Rusanova, G.V. & Kuhry, P. (2001) (in Russian) Soils of the forest-tundra ecotone in the Pre-Polar Urals. Pochvovedenie 4: 409-417. Translated by journal into English. Eurasian Soil Science, 4: 363-370.


2000

Christensen, J.H. & Kuhry, P. (2000) High resolution regional climate model validation and permafrost simulation for the East-European Russian Arctic. Journal of Geophysical Research 105(D24): 29647-29658.

Crittenden, P.D. (2000) Aspects in the ecology of mat-forming lichens. Rangifer 20(2-3): 127-139.

Kaakinen, A. & Eronen, M. (2000) Holocene pollen stratigraphy indicating climatic and treeline changes derived from a peat section at Ortino, in the Pechora lowland, northern Russia. The Holocene 10(4): 611-620.

Karjalainen, T.P. & Järvikoski, T. (2000) Natur och miljöproblem i stadbornas liv i tundran – en fallstudie från Komi  (Nature and Environment Problems among the City Dwellers in Russian Tundra – A Case study from the Republic Komi, In Swedish). Nordisk Östforum 14(1): 57-71.

Van Putten, M. J. (2000) Fluvial response to climatic fluctuations in northeastern European Russia. ICG Report 00/9.


1999

de Moor, J.J.W. (1999) Subarctic rivers in northern Russia: the influence of vegetation, landscape, climate and hydrology on the river morphology of two catchment areas in the Usa Basin in Northeast-European Russia. ICG Report 99/4.

Van der Linden, S. (1999) Modelling runoff in Arctic river systems: the impact of climate change. ICG Report 99/11.