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Interdisciplinary research group @iamoLeibniz: land-use change, agriculture, food security, sustainability in Eastern Europe, Central and Southeast Asia, China
Sep 15, 2022 7 tweets 6 min read
How did agricultural land use upstream of the Aral Sea change in the last three decades? Here is our new #openaccess paper in @IOPenvironment: “Post-Soviet changes in cropping practices in the irrigated drylands of the Aral Sea basin”: dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9… (1/n) The study area covers 650 000 km2 of drylands in #CentralAsia, covering #Uzbekistan, #Turkmenistan, and #Tajikistan and including the entire #AmuDarya and parts of the #SyrDarya basins. (2/n) Figure 1. Study area with provincial boundaries in Uzbekista