Study site description: Djanibek, Russia

Table of Contents

1. Responsible partner
2. General information
3. Bio-physical description
4. Socio-economic description
5. Institutional and political setting
6. Relevant end-users / stakeholder groups
7. Past and on-going projects

Past and on-going projects

Desertification control in arid regions of Russia is a subject of the scientific research in a number of universities in Volgograd, Elista, Moscow. In particular, the Institute of Forest Science of the Russian Academy of Science (Moscow) has carried out the following projects:

• Analysis of regularities of artificial forest ecosystems formation in arid regions for detection of their steady growth mechanisms (2000-2002)
• Analysis of structural organization of natural and artificial forest ecosystems in arid regions for estimating their stability in connection with desertification processes (2003-2005).